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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 1 year ago
Eunice
received a $25 tenth payment.
"As I said my ambition has been to complete tailoring school, the school will take about two years with our first year focusing on women clothes and the second year on men's clothes. I hope to spend my transfers to help me finish school as well as purchase a sewing machine which I was informed costs about $110. I also would like to use my next transfers to buy a mattresses. The mattress we are currently using is worn out and since we got a bed we hope to get a mattress too."
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over 1 year ago
Saidi
received a $25 tenth payment.
"I never cleared my highschool education due to being sickly most of the time, I am better now but this set me back so much. My hope was to at least do something beyond my secondary education that would be able to earn me a living and this bore my dream of becoming a driver. I want to to pursue a driving course and once I get a license I will be able to seek work in so many environments that can hire a driver. I want to use my savings for this. I am also saving towards building a house for myself. I ma living in my older brothers house and as much as he hasn't asked me to live it is important for me to have my own house so that I am even able to advance my life."
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over 1 year ago
Elizabeth
received a $25 tenth payment.
"My husband and I do not have a reliable source of income to fully support our family, and I have always wished to have a project or any reliable source of income. Therefore, my main goal is to have a chicken-rearing project. I had already bought around four chicks to start off, and I plan to buy more egg-laying chicken every month I get my transfers bearing in mind that they would lay eggs, multiply and eventually have a market for both."
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over 1 year ago
Riziki
received a $25 fourteenth payment.
"My main goal is to ensure that my daughter gets her own bed. I have a daughter aged 7 years, and it had always been my wish to get her her own bedding since currently, we share one bed with her, and considering her age, I believe it is not the right thing. I had already paid some amount of money to a carpenter and before the month comes to an end, I shall have paid the remaining balance and later buy her a mattress with some savings that I already have."
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over 1 year ago
Katana
received a $25 tenth payment.
"The most recent goal that I would wish to achieve is to have a beer house. The house that I currently live in with my family is in a dilapidated state and whenever it rained, we were always rained on and I always feel bad about it. I always wished that my family lived in a good house I already have most of the materials in place and I hope to get a little amount so that I could start the construction by the end of this month. I would also want to start a livestock rearing project in the future once I am done with the construction and I believe that my future transfers would play a great role in the future project."
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over 1 year ago
Jacob
enrolled.
"I was born into a family of 7 children and immediately after completing my studies in secondary, I could not proceed to college due to the lack of money. This means I could not get the required basic skills to compete in the job market. This was the sole reason I ended up marrying early and having a family to take care of. Since I am a casual laborer, my job mostly earns me $150 per month. I usually spend this money on offsetting my bills and other household needs. Saving for my future has never been possible and this has worried me most as a parent. I always ask myself; "how will I support my 3 children in school"? I, therefore, consider the lack of a reliable source of income as my biggest challenge."
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over 1 year ago
Abubakar
received a $25 fourteenth payment.
"At my age, I do not have my own house, I currently operate from my brother's house, something that bothers me a lot seeing some of my age mates having their own houses. My goal was therefore to have my own house before the end of this year. I had already bought some iron sheets with part of my previous transfers and I would continue buying some and also saving a porting of the transfers so that I would commence the construction."
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over 1 year ago
Zawadi
received a $25 tenth payment.
"Livestock rearing had been one of the most projects that I had dreamt of having. With a large family and no reliable source of income, I had thought of having an income-generating activity that would help me educate my children in the future. My goal is therefore to have as many livestock as possible so that whenever I would be faced with any financial challenges, I be able to sell and get the required money. I plan to be saving part of my monthly transfers to help me start the project."
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over 1 year ago
Rukia
received a $25 fourteenth payment.
"My goal is to set up my own business. After I shall have completed my tailoring course, I would not like to be employed by someone else and instead, I would want to set up my own tailoring sh and be my own boss. With the transfers that I would be receiving, I would ensure that I save at least $10 every month to enable me to buy a sewing machine worth $20 for my business."
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over 1 year ago
Ndoko
received a $25 tenth payment.
"My goal was to be one of the greatest livestock rearers in the area. After reflecting on the situation at my home, I wanted to start a project that would help generate income for my family so that they would no longer experience the financial challenges and they had before. I had so far started buying livestock (chicken and goats) with part of my previous transfers, and my focus is to continue saving on most months as I also buy the livestock on some of the months."
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