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.
Ayub's family
access_time 8 years ago
Ayub received a $482 second payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I was staying in a grass thatched house, but now I have a nice house with iron sheets on the roof. "
Cynthia's family
access_time 8 years ago
Cynthia received a $482 second payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now have a fenced compound, so the stress of losing items to animals is not there any more."
Evaline's family
access_time 8 years ago
Evaline received a $482 second payment.
"The biggest difference in our daily life is that we now make enough money to meet our daily needs and save a little of it unlike before when we paid what we could have saved to the owner of the motorcycle my husband initially used as daily commission."
Pamela's family
access_time 8 years ago
Pamela received a $96 initial payment.
"The moment when I received my money, I knelt down and thanked God and GD for the miracle because even as a hopeless widow, my child had just been facilitated to enroll in High school, which I could not have happened without the transfer."
Lurine's family
access_time 8 years ago
Lurine enrolled.
"I don't have a stable job so most of the time we lack money to buy food "
Benard's family
access_time 8 years ago
Benard enrolled.
"My family has been going hungry due to famine experienced in the village"
Eunice's family
access_time 8 years ago
Eunice enrolled.
"The transfer means that I will be relieved from hard labour of charcoal burning. I will be able to buy foodstuffs for my family, especially during this drought period when famine is severe on us. I further see my daughter who is in form three comfortably going to school without undergoing suffering in terms of lack of school fees. I feel relieved of some burden."
Nicodemus's family
access_time 8 years ago
Nicodemus enrolled.
"I always lack enough money to sustain my family because I work for people in their farms and sometimes they don't have money to employ me. "
Vincent's family
access_time 8 years ago
Vincent enrolled.
"The transfer to me means that I will improve my sanitation by constructing a toilet for my household. I currently attend to my calls in the nearby bushes that is really embarrassing and unhealthy. I further intend to expand my house to a spacious one that can fully accommodate my household members. I will have ultimately improved my shelter."
Francis's family
access_time 8 years ago
Francis enrolled.
"Severe famine striking my family has seen me go through the hardest time in life."