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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almost 7 years ago
David
received a $454 second payment.
"My life is different than if i never received money in that i was able to complete the payment of a plot of land and i have hope of constructing the iron roofed house for my self."
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almost 7 years ago
Conslator
received a $485 third payment.
"I spent a portion of my third transfer on plastering my house which I had began renovating using my first and second transfers. The remaining amount of the transfer I saved in readiness for admitting my daughter, who was by then sitting for her primary school final exams, to a secondary school."
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almost 7 years ago
Apolot
enrolled.
"Receiving this money means to me hiring land for cultivation so as to reduce poverty in my household"
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almost 7 years ago
Elizabeth
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship i face in life is lack of money to enable buy cows and land for cultivation, my family is there fore living in absolute poverty. "
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almost 7 years ago
Jesca
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship i face is my two children are sickle cellers, i spend a lot money on their treatment. Whatever produce we get in a season is always sold for their treatement.This makes my family to live with bitting poverty."
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almost 7 years ago
Peter
received a $456 second payment.
"My life is different in away that i have acquired land and household items which I didn't have before."
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almost 7 years ago
Keletesia
received a $456 second payment.
"My life was very miserable and terrible before I received this transfer. I am very happy now because I am now comfortable. I sleep well and eat very well."
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almost 7 years ago
Paul
received a $456 second payment.
"My life was meaningless before I received the cash transfers, but now I am so happy and peaceful because all that I own now is courtesy of givedirectly. "
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almost 7 years ago
Irene
received a $456 second payment.
"My life is different in that I now have an iron roofed house unlike before when I used to sleep in a grass thatched hut and I have got back my garden which I had mortgaged."
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almost 7 years ago
Susan
received a $468 third payment.
"I spent my third transfer on plastering my house for business purposes. I now have a nice house with good stock and I am able to meet my family needs. I also paid for my maternity fees when as I was expecting my first born."
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