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.
Veronica's family
access_time over 7 years ago
Veronica received a $482 second payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is the improvement of in living standards that I have acquired with the transfers. If I remember so well, I hardly afforded all the three meals in a day. I would skip two and do with one in order to extend the duration of the little stock of food I could afford."
Maurine's family
access_time over 7 years ago
Maurine received a $482 second payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is that my children now adorn smartly when going to school after buying them new school uniforms with the first transfer. This has motivated them and non of them want to miss school. Apart from that, I now have a spacious house which accommodate all my belonging. I could not establish a better house due to financial constrains."
George's family
access_time over 7 years ago
George received a $482 second payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is that my spouse is now relieved from frequent repairs of the house because I managed to cement both walls and floor. Apart from that, my house is free from dust and my wife get it very easy to clean it."
Omollo's family
access_time over 7 years ago
Omollo received a $482 second payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have enough chairs in my house and my family no longer sit on the ground. Apart from that, I enjoy free light from the solar panel I purchased."
Beryl's family
access_time over 7 years ago
Beryl received a $482 second payment.
"The biggest difference in our daily lives is that we are really looking forward to moving from our current grass-thatched house which also leaks, to a durable and spacious tin-roofed house, thank you."
Caren's family
access_time over 7 years ago
Caren received a $482 second payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is having a new, large descent house which is easy to maintain. This makes be at peace because I have always longed to own such but I couldn't afford."
Risper's family
access_time over 7 years ago
Risper received a $482 second payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is the joy i have found from the accomplished project of having my own compound, as the required by the customary law."
Roslida's family
access_time over 7 years ago
Roslida received a $482 second payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have managed to build a permanent toilet in my own homestead hence this is a health prevention measure I have been longing for to reduce fecal oral disease which had been re-occurring most frequently since we as a family used to practice unsanitary way of disposing wastes that is using the the bush to defecate and also running away when I see a community health volunteer works who came to do her routine follow-up if I had constructed a latrine is now I long gone story. Thanks to GiveDirectly."
Syprose's family
access_time over 7 years ago
Syprose received a $482 second payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life are I have managed to acquire an ox with and an ox plough to assist me in my farm activities which was my greatest challenge. GiveDirectly has also given me an opportunity to save for my child who is to enroll in high school next year."
Pamela's family
access_time over 7 years ago
Pamela received a $482 second payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is the peace of I have acquired with my children's school fee fully settled. The fact that I no longer beg for financial assistance is something worth mentioning."