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.
Poibe's family
access_time almost 7 years ago
Poibe enrolled.
"Receiving this money means to invest in agriculture activities like cropping. My plan will be to plant millet, maize and cassava for consumption. "
Gilbert's family
access_time almost 7 years ago
Gilbert enrolled.
"I intend to spend my transfers for buying a plot of land. This plot i shall develope it later."
Margret's family
access_time almost 7 years ago
Margret enrolled.
"Receiving this money means to buy oxen for cultivating and paying school fees. My children are studying in secondary but i do not have money to educate them,so sometimes they are send back home due to fees."
Hellen's family
access_time almost 7 years ago
Hellen received a $452 second payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is that am now happy because of my garden that I have got back and my cow, If l wouldn't have got this money buying a cow and getting back my garden was not going to be easy for me and my husband."
Joyce's family
access_time almost 7 years ago
Joyce received a $452 second payment.
"My life is different in that l have bought a cow and built an iron roofed house with Give Directly's transfer, l wouldn't have bought a cow and built a house without this transfer."
Christine's family
access_time almost 7 years ago
Christine received a $452 second payment.
"My life is different in a way that I sleep in an iron roofed house which I built with Give Directly's transfer unlike before where I used to sleep in a grass hatched house and now days I sleep with 2 meals a day, not as before where I could sleep without a meal a day."
Peter's family
access_time almost 7 years ago
Peter received a $452 second payment.
"My life is different than it would have been if I had not recieved the transfer in that there is more of liveliness in my home than before when all the time I would worry about the days meals and sickness that I suffered from. I feel like i am no longer sick."
Irene's family
access_time almost 7 years ago
Irene received a $4 initial payment.
"I want to start rearing poultry by first building a poultry house and buying some few chicken. I also want to engage in serious vegetable planting that will help increase our household income."
Safina's family
access_time almost 7 years ago
Safina received a $23 initial payment.
"In the next six months I expect to be living a more up lifted life.I expect to be doing more and better farming due more resources to use.My family and I will be having enough food."
Rose's family
access_time almost 7 years ago
Rose received a $23 second payment.
"I expect expect my life to change in the next six months where I will be owning my own spaciouse house and my children will be going to school."