GDLive Newsfeed
We check in with people at each stage of the cash transfer process to see how things are going. Take a look at some of their stories as they appear here in real-time. Learn more about how recipients opt in to share their stories.
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Anatasia's family
access_time 6 years ago
Anatasia received a $22 eighth payment.
"In the next six months l expect to have so many cattle that l can sell when l have emergency."
Elizabeth's family
access_time 6 years ago
Elizabeth received a $22 eighth payment.
"Un the next six months l expect my business to better than it is now to get more profite."
Josia's family
access_time 6 years ago
Josia received a $22 eighth payment.
"In the next six months l expect to have renovate my house by replacing thatched roofed to iron roofed house."
Evaline's family
access_time 6 years ago
Evaline received a $22 eighth payment.
"In the next six months l expect to have put up the salon and getting many customers."
Leokadia's family
access_time 6 years ago
Leokadia received a $22 eighth payment.
"In the next six months l expect to have improve my poultry farming and to start saving for my project of extending my house, since it is very small."
Salama's family
access_time 6 years ago
Salama enrolled.
"Receiving this money means that I will be able to start a shop business within our village thus enabling me to become self reliant and independent. For a long time, I have been a house wife depending solely on my husband to provide for our family's needs. However, this dependency really cost me a lot ever since he got into an accident earlier this month.The immense challenges that my family has gone through amongst them seeing my children sleeping hungry has made me purpose to have a business of my own. I will also buy two oxen and an ox plough that will help me to improve my farming so that I get better yields for both commercial and subsistence use."
Janet's family
access_time 6 years ago
Janet enrolled.
"Financial constraints is my biggest harship, this is because being a peasant farmer who solely rely on a small maize farm as source of income. This makes it hard for me to provide basic needs for my children. Sometimes we are even forced to take only one meal the whole day due to lack of money to buy food."
Rehema's family
access_time 6 years ago
Rehema enrolled.
"For a long period of time, my husband has been struggling with getting jobs to sustain our family needs. As a motorcycle rider, his income is not enough to sustain buying food, catering for medical expenses and even providing decent bedding for our family.Now that we will be getting this transfer, my husband will be able to buy his own motorcycle which he will be riding closer to home thus enhancing our source of income and even making him to be closer to his family."
Norman's family
access_time 6 years ago
Norman enrolled.
"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is continuous struggle in educating my children. I am advanced in age with no permanent job hence unable to engage in any casual job. I, therefore, find it hard to support their education as I ought to as the head of the family. "
Cliff's family
access_time 6 years ago
Cliff received a $536 initial payment.
"At around 8 am that particular morning, I switched on my phone and the first message that I received was confirmatory of receipt of 55,000 KES from GD. I called out the name of my wife loudly with joy in my heart telling her of the good news. We quickly prepared and left for town to buy a few household items that were missing in the house."