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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Elizabeth's family
access_time 6 years ago
Elizabeth enrolled.
"Receiving this money means I will be able to build my self a decent house, since the current one is in a bad state. I aslo want to seek medical treatment for the different sickness that I have."
Paschalia's family
access_time 6 years ago
Paschalia enrolled.
"I wake up early in the morning at 6:00am take a shower then prepare for tea and take it. I then brush my teeth and head to baba dogo where I sell fruits and snacks. I sell to the people who are working at baba dogo where their is a lot of industries in that area. I sell until 1:00pm then I come back home and continue selling my products close to my house along the nearest road side until 6:00pm. I then go back home and because I still live with my family I find my sister has already prepared for supper then I eat and sleep. On my free time I go to our table banking group for meetings."
Rebecca's family
access_time 6 years ago
Rebecca enrolled.
"Recieving this money mean; I will build myself an Iron roofed house since getting grass is now a problem; I will also buy more land and some animals."
Isaac's family
access_time 6 years ago
Isaac enrolled.
"Recieving this money means; I will be able to buy land, and some animals and plan to marry another wife because the one I had left me"
Silvester's family
access_time 6 years ago
Silvester received a $22 eighth payment.
"I want to buy a goat and probably add more effort with my motorbike so that I should be able to get a cow in the near future"
Roseline's family
access_time 6 years ago
Roseline received a $22 eighth payment.
"I expect to buy a cow within the next six months so that I should be able to get enough milk from the animal so that I will not have to keep on buying milk every now and then. I also plan to use the money to pay school fees for my children so that they can concentrate on their studies on a full-time basis."
Joseph's family
access_time 6 years ago
Joseph received a $22 eighth payment.
"I will have been able to settle down in my life comfortable from the cash that the organization will be sending me. By the next six months I believe I will have accumulated enough cash that will enable me to buy a new calf that I will rear within the village and eventually buy more cows going into the future."
Joseph's family
access_time 6 years ago
Joseph received a $22 eighth payment.
"I know that six months from today i will have been bale to erect the new kitchen structure that will be used by wife in preparing meals for my family. By getting the new building in place, she will not have to strain so much in cooking outside especially during the harsh weather conditions. The structure could also serve as a residential place for my female kids."
Rose's family
access_time 6 years ago
Rose received a $536 initial payment.
"It was around 5 am in the morning when I received a call from my neighbor "Mama Spencer" to mean Spencer's mother, have you checked your phone? she asked me, she did not greet me and my heart skipped a bit since it was too early for such a call from a neighbor, I thought it might be someone is sick or even someone has passed on. This was not the case, she instead told me that, "our people have sent us the money," I got confused, I was not sure whether to wake up or continue sleeping. I was so happy. I knew that all my problems were over. I am still happy as we speak."
Joash's family
access_time 6 years ago
Joash received a $22 eighth payment.
"I would want to buy more chicken which will help boost my business so as to improve on my income tio help support my family well."