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.
Fancy's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Fancy enrolled.
"Between 2015 and 2016, I was employed as a supermarket attendant in DANA Supermarket, Bomet town. My job included stock supervision and day to day customer engagement where necessary. I loved my job. My salary enabled me to support and raise my family. Around March 2016, I was stricken by tonsillitis and chest complications at the same time, depriving me the ability to efficiently do my job. I could not recover within my stipulated time off and was relieved of my duties. A job that I had so much hope for was abruptly ended with a short-term ordeal and I could not fend for my family as before. This is the biggest hardship I have faced in my life. "
Nancy's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Nancy enrolled.
"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is sickness. I have been sick over and over and have never sought enough medical attention due to lack of funds. This has cost me a lot and I have not been able to accomplish some of my life's goals."
Chelangat's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Chelangat enrolled.
"Kshs 110,000 is a very good amount of money! Received this money means I am going stop buying milk from a local trader so as to buy a milking cow of my own. This will immensely reduce on recurrent expenditure from my husband's meager motorcycle taxi earnings. Moreover, I intend to spend a part of the transfer to fence my compound to mitigate a rampant poultry theft in the village. This money is going to change my life for the better. "
Leonard's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Leonard enrolled.
"The biggest hardship I have faced in life is failing to put my children in a boarding School. I will use this money to generate more income through starting a new business and eventually put my children in a better School."
Patrick's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Patrick enrolled.
"The biggest hardship we have faced as a family is raising up a young family with little or no resources at all. There are times when we have slept hungry and this often makes me feel like I have failed as a parent."
Lewnida's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Lewnida enrolled.
"The biggest hardship that I have faced is not being able to attain a title deed for the parcel of land that I am currently living in. For a very long time, my sons and I have been living in constant fear of being evicted from our current place of residence. This is because the purchase of land had been linked with so many irregularities which has made transfer of ownership to be very difficult. "
Rose's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Rose received a $447 initial payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is that, my family and I feeding well. This is because this has improved our diet and health at large. Before, my children were so malnourished."
Yokana's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Yokana received a $429 second payment.
"If I had never recieved the transfer, I would still be lagging behind in terms of cultivating. I would not be having the ploughing equipment that has helped me to in hunger prevention. This is because I managed to get my family some food on time by going to work for other people for money. "
Hellen's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Hellen received a $429 second payment.
"If I had never recieved the transfer, I would be sad because I would not be I position to build my iron house and still be in the falling grass thached house."
Gladys's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Gladys enrolled.
"In 2013 Igave birth to child that has problem of Hydrocephalus since then I have been taking her for check up after every 3months this have been the biggest hardship I have faced. "