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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over 7 years ago
Rose
received a $463 third payment.
"I spent my third transfer on secondary school fee for our 2 children for 17,000 KES to help them learn more effectively. I also bought materials to build a house for 17,000 KES for my elder son who has no income, though the work has not began.The balance I spent on a solar panel that we use for lighting and children's studies as well as charging phones since before this we used to buy paraffin which was very expensive."
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over 7 years ago
Betty
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship which am challenged with is paying school fees and how for feed my family ."
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over 7 years ago
Jecinta
received a $463 third payment.
"I spent my third transfer on completion of building for our two roomed house and finishing it by applying paint and fixing a ceiling board for 94,000 KES, since we needed a good house as a change from our previously mud-house.The work was began using the second transfer."
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over 7 years ago
Phoebe
received a $484 third payment.
"I used all my last transfer to pay school fee for my three children of whom two are in high school and one in college doing a course in teaching so all this money to paying their fees."
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over 7 years ago
Mary
received a $463 third payment.
"We had our son who had finished high school awaiting to join university so we took this last transfer and enrolled him in one of the university to do nursing."
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over 7 years ago
Pamela
received a $466 third payment.
"I have two daughters one who is in high school and another girl who finished primary but did not do too well in her academics who I took to do a course in beauty so I used the last transfer to sort them out in school fees and any other thing they will need in school."
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over 7 years ago
Elizabeth
received a $484 third payment.
"I spent my third transfer on paying school for my son, who was joining secondary school then. I have also been building a rental house that will at least be like my asset and help me with school fees payment for my children so the remaining I spent on finding that house. Even though it is not complete yet, it helped moving it somewhere. I am happy receiving this money."
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over 7 years ago
Carolyne
received a $484 third payment.
"I used a portion of my third transfer on sand, cement and paint which I have used to renovate my house from mud to plastered, I paid laborers who renovated my house. I bought iron sheets, timber and nails which I have used to build a kitchen because I was cooking in the open and could be rained at times. The remaining amount, I spent to pay school fees for my children who are in academy because I did not want them to be sent home from school."
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over 7 years ago
David
enrolled.
"Recieving this money means i will be able to build an iron roofed house, marry and finally settle with my wife."
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over 7 years ago
Risper
received a $463 third payment.
"I spent my third transfer on Secondary school fee for our 2 children for 30,000 KES since Education is a priority in that it prepares people for life.I also build a small kitchen for 11,000 KES for our children to get a place to sleep at night."
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