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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Aggrey's family
access_time 6 years ago
Aggrey enrolled.
"I want to open a business where i will be selling electronics and expand my business so that i can employ my friends or relatives"
Ann's family
access_time 6 years ago
Ann enrolled.
"My plan is to open a new business so that i can be self dependant so that i can support my kids education and be able to pay rent and provide food for my family"
Edith's family
access_time 6 years ago
Edith enrolled.
"I love watching movies, and I have realised even my neighbors and the people in my surrounding enjoy movies. Because of this, I hope to own a chain of video shops and eventually a cinema in a Central Area where many people can come and pay to watch movies. I feel I will have ready market already when I open my own video shop. "
Joice's family
access_time 6 years ago
Joice received a $23 seventh payment.
"I will have cemented my house and make it look presentable, something that has always been an uphill task for me."
Victor's family
access_time 6 years ago
Victor enrolled.
"I do worry a lot about my family especially the health status of child who has been sickling a lot. Getting better medical attention has been a problem. I also worry a lot about my house because most of the times I am unable to clear my rent arrears. I also worry about unemployment since I am a casual labourer that today I may get job and small money but tomorrow nothing and few days again. "
David's family
access_time 6 years ago
David enrolled.
"I always go pick my miraa and relax in my house to enjoy myself with my friends.sometimes I go to play football with my teammates ,then maybe go to watch soccer later on as a way of passing my evening session. My crew and I have much in common especially chewing miraa and drinking."
Ernest's family
access_time 6 years ago
Ernest enrolled.
"I would want to get rid of poverty in my life and family by making both ends meet.. I'll give my best shot in my business am planing to open so that to be an icon in my community by employing most young people to do away with poverty which leads to crime. Most young men are shot dead in crime, this happens because they can't afford a meal on their tables, I wanna be a bridge to solving this."
Ted's family
access_time 6 years ago
Ted enrolled.
"Once I wake up in the morning I take breakfast then go to the barber shop clean the shop and machines then wait for customers to come. Once am done with the day's work I go and spend the rest of my day at our group's project of livestock by helping to give them food as we relax with peers"
Celestine's family
access_time 6 years ago
Celestine received a $253 second payment.
"I would have boosted my vegetable business because I now have less school fees burden.Hence I will have an increase in income."
Pamela's family
access_time 6 years ago
Pamela received a $23 seventh payment.
"I expect that my life will be different because i will own a new tV set and my kids will not have to be going to the neighborhoods house to watch TV."