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 8 years ago
Esther
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship that I have faced is providing my family with better healthcare due to lack of money."
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almost 8 years ago
Veronica
enrolled.
"I will be able to clear the fee arrears for my children and also start up a small business. "
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almost 8 years ago
Susan
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship that I have faced is lack of ox plough to do better farming for sustainability being that I am a farmer."
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almost 8 years ago
Veronica
enrolled.
"When I receive this money, I will pay school fees for my child. I will also use part of the money to purchase farm equipment to enable me do better farming."
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almost 8 years ago
Rose
enrolled.
"Receiving this money means that I will be able to pay school fees for my children and if our customs and traditions allow me,then I will build myself a small house to stay in with my children since for the past four years i have been living in my parents house."
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almost 8 years ago
Morine
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship that we are faced with at the moment is not having a decent enough shelter to fit our large family of seven since it is very small.To make it worse, when it is raining like now,it also tends to leak a lot thus making our lives very miserable."
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almost 8 years ago
Caroline
enrolled.
"Getting food has become a problem due to high inflation rate. "
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almost 8 years ago
Scolar
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship that we are facing at the moment is not having a stable source of income to enable us cope with the high standards of living more so purchasing essentials like food in order to feed ourselves being that our farms didn't yield any harvest from the last planting season."
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almost 8 years ago
Edith
received a $401 third payment.
"My life is different than it would have been if I never received the the transfer in a way that my home no longer has to worry about darkness at night and I also get income from the animal traction business during this season. I have found farming easy this season since ploughing land was a walk over."
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almost 8 years ago
Zeulance
received a $401 third payment.
"In my opinion, Give Directly does well to give free transfers to even old recipients. However, Give Directly does not do well to stop the transfers in a short time."
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