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
Leah
received a $475 third payment.
"I spent most of the transfer to buy iron sheets as l am planing to build my house since l am staying at the shopping center where l am pay rent and this very expensive."
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6 years ago
Karolin
received a $23 eighth payment.
"In the next six months l expect to have finishing building my house and to have started business."
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6 years ago
Rose
enrolled.
"Receiving this money makes me so happy. I will use it to repair my house. I currently stay in a mud house. I want to cement it so that it looks nice."
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6 years ago
Thomas
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship I face is inadequate income. I work as a casual labourer and get paid so little yet the demands that I need to fulfill are so many. This becomes difficult that I cannot even pay my children's school fees well. "
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6 years ago
Beatrice
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship I face in my life is that getting school fees for my children is a challenge as our income is low."
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6 years ago
Kerto
enrolled.
"Receiving this money means that I will be able to build my own house as the one I stay in belongs to my late grandmother. I will buy school uniform for my kids, food to eat and start a small business. "
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6 years ago
Japheth
enrolled.
"First of all I would want to migrate from where am currently living and be in a better place. Businesswise I would want have several motorcycles so as to create employment opportunities for other young people and the community at large. I would want to have run a company of my own. "
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6 years ago
Ann
enrolled.
"Normally I always like watching TV doing my house chores since am not that committed. Sometimes I do people's hair and appreciate me if they can though I do it like leasure since it's my hobby to do that that's why I want to go do more studies on the same. "
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6 years ago
Jane
enrolled.
"I greatly thank God for extending His mercies through GD. Receiving this money means that we shall own (buy) a cow - something that we have never owned. Subsequently, we shall have a reliable source of milk for our consumption."
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6 years ago
Ivine
enrolled.
"My top concern is gang violence and crime because I have been a victim and I lost my best friend through gang fights, early pregnancy which I have seen teen's become parents and life becoming hard to them and lastly is police violence where young people are being harassed, killed and arrested for no reason."
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