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
Brian
enrolled.
"To be successful in life and also becoming one of the prominent people in Kenya by doing different things in the society for instance through my business that may end up employing most people in the society. "
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6 years ago
Nelson
enrolled.
"I would want to be a great business man who supplies like the whole Kenya with clothes. Once I have enough resources can be able to support other young people since there are so many young people within my area who would want to be somewhere in their talents like playing football,i would want to support them."
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6 years ago
Beryl
received a $23 seventh payment.
"In the next six months, I expect to have started a small business so that I can have a source of income."
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6 years ago
Mark
received a $23 seventh payment.
"In the next six months, I expect to have started up a dairy unit."
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6 years ago
Samson
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship in my life is constant lack of adequate income to take good care of my family and even pay school fees for my children ."
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6 years ago
Joshua
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship I have faced in life is lack of adequate money to accomplish my education as per my wish since I am coming from a poor background,this has made me to live a very miserable life. "
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6 years ago
Julia
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship I face is the inability to educate my grandchildren as well as providing meals for them. I lack job hence has no earning to support them."
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6 years ago
Jane
enrolled.
"Receiving this money makes me so happy. Currently I have a son who is in form one. He is always sent home for school fee arrears. This hinders his study. I will therefore save my transfers and use it to pay for his school fees."
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6 years ago
Susan
enrolled.
"Receiving this money means that I will be able to expand my fish and paultry farming business as I will buy more fingerlings."
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6 years ago
Pascalina
enrolled.
"Receiving this money means great change in my life as I will be able to buy salon equipment so that I may run a salon business which I was trained on and practiced before I lost my husband to long illness that saw my business collapse due to heavy hospital bill that he left behind. I will also us part of this transfer in paying fees to my daughter whom I was worried that will be sent back home due to fees arreas that I owe the school."
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