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.
Pamela's family
access_time 7 years ago
Pamela received a $464 third payment.
"I bought livestock worth 21500 KES and building materials (iron sheets) at 15000 KES. I saved 10000 KES for renovating the house and spent the rest on food. "
Everline's family
access_time 7 years ago
Everline enrolled.
"The biggest hardship i have faced is lack of money to cater for my households needs. The father to my child abandoned me after realising that i had conceived, leaving me to suffer with no assitance."
Grace's family
access_time 7 years ago
Grace enrolled.
"My biggest hardship has been lack of money to buy oxen and ox plough to boast on my household's agricultural production.The use of hand hoe for digging in my household has always given us to face hunger since we get low yields from crop farming"
Simon's family
access_time 7 years ago
Simon enrolled.
"My biggest hardship is lack of money to cater for my personal and household needs. I completed a driving course in 2015 but I have never been employed as a driver and yet, I have household needs to cater for.The subsistence farming that my household depends on does not fully cater for our household needs because of the low yields that we usually get."
Dolphine's family
access_time 7 years ago
Dolphine received a $484 third payment.
"The third transfers was spent on finishing my iron roofed house and I have finally moved from my thatched house which was leaking."
Lilian's family
access_time 7 years ago
Lilian received a $467 third payment.
"I spent the last transfers to build an iron roofed house and finally moved out of my co-wife house"
Rose's family
access_time 7 years ago
Rose received a $484 third payment.
"I spent a larger part of my transfers on paying school fees. I also bought a box for storing clothes,bought a goat as an investment, food , and the balance was spent on farming"
Rose's family
access_time 7 years ago
Rose received a $464 third payment.
"I spent a larger part of my transfers to buy a cow for ploughing my farm.The remaining part of transfers was spent on buying wooden chairs and tables."
Rose's family
access_time 7 years ago
Rose received a $484 third payment.
"I spent my third transfer on plastering my 2 room house, since before GD support ,it always required me to labour much in terms of repairing the gaping holes all the time, which my age cannot allow. I also paid Secondary school fee balance for my grandchild"
Pamela's family
access_time 7 years ago
Pamela received a $464 third payment.
"I spent a larger part of the transfers to buy a dairy cow and calf. The remaining part of transfers was spent on renting a piece of land which I planted rice."