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.
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6 years ago
Zura
received a $452 second payment.
"My life is different in that, I have own oxen and I'm debt free that I couldn't have achieved had not recieved this transfer."
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6 years ago
Rehema
received a $452 second payment.
"My life is different in that I have own livestock that will reproduce and provide milk for the family member and I have also bought a motorbike, I couldn't have bought all these had I not recieved my from Give Directly."
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6 years ago
Aloysius
received a $452 second payment.
"My life is different in that, I have been in position to buy a plot of land easily with this trsnsfer, which I couldn't have bought had I not recieved this transfer."
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6 years ago
Alice
received a $22 eighth payment.
"I want to make sure that next season I get in to serious farming by using modern day fertilizers that will enable me get a lot of bumper harvest at the end of the season. Once I get the bumper harvest I will be in a position to eat well and get a balanced diet that will keep me going into the future."
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6 years ago
Shaban
received a $452 second payment.
"I am now a loan free man. I used to hide from my creditors when they could come looking for me. I am very grateful that the cash transfers saved me alot of social embarassment. Had I not received the cash transfer, I would still be very desperate and hustling with life to make ends meet."
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6 years ago
Aisha
received a $452 second payment.
"My life is much different in that I sleep under a comfortable three roomed self contained iron roofed house which I completed with the cash transfer. Had I not received the cash transfers I would have died because the cash transfers also helped to treat me. I had ulcers that had persisted for a long time."
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6 years ago
Emmanuel
received a $452 second payment.
"My life is different now in that the motorcycle that I bought earns me daily income where as in the past my life was really wanting. I did not have any income generating venture. Had I not received the cash transfer, I would be living a miserable life."
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6 years ago
John
received a $452 second payment.
"My life is different compared to if I had not received this cash transfer in that, I now have self esteem that I had lacked for so long."
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6 years ago
David
received a $452 second payment.
"My life I different than if I had not received my cash transfer in that, I am now happy because I am in th process of constructing my permanent house. Before, I used to sleep in a leaky house since grass for thatching is now scarce."
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6 years ago
Anna
received a $452 second payment.
"My life is different than if I had not received cash transfer in that, I had never dreamt of building a Permanent house th to lack of money but through Give Directly, I have started making bricks for building it."
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