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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Do you have any new or additional goals for your life for the next four months?
My goal is to ensure that my sister's school fees are fully paid. I will keep spending the money I receive on paying for her.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer.
The biggest difference in my daily life is in ensuring that my sister's education has been going on uninterrupted. She is the first one in my family to have pursued an education at this level. I am proud of her and I want to ensure that she completes this level. Seeing her going on like this makes me so happy. This has made a huge impact on giving hope to my family because she will get a better life and assist us too when she gets a job.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
I will have to build a house and make a home of my own. I am currently living in a servant's quarters in a farm that belongs to my employer. I desire to have a house where I can live on and start a family in the near future.
24th Payment
Transfer Amount
2280 KES ($23 USD)
access_time almost 5 years ago
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Do you have any new or additional goals for your life for the next four months?
One of the additional goals that I have is to accumulate enough money over the next four months and be able to start building a new house. I plan to pool money from my casual jobs and partly from the monthly transfers that we receive and be able to buy building materials that will be used to construct a new house. I am currently staying in a house that I was given by my employer and I look forward to having one of my own.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer.
The biggest difference in my daily life over the last four months is the fee payment that I have been able to pay for my sister continuously without fail. This has been made possible through the monthly transfers that I receive. I am almost certain that my sister will clear her secondary education without having to worry about where her school fees will come from. This shall be made possible through the monthly transfers that I was lucky to receive.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
In the next six months, I expect my life to change in that I shall have been able to continue paying school fees for my sister as well as start building my new house. These are plans that I am sure shall be actualized with GiveDirectly transfers and the little that I get from my employer. I look forward to accomplishing even much more bigger things going forward.
20th Payment
Transfer Amount
2280 KES ($22 USD)
access_time 5 years ago
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How is your life currently different from how it was four months ago?
For some month's ago, my sister has been in and out of school simply because she is being sent back to collect school fees. But am a happy man now that I am able to pay almost all of the fees and therefore she has been having ample time so far. It is my wish that this school fee issue should not recur any more since I am determined to see her complete her secondary education s that she may be of help to her siblings.
Do you have any new or additional goals for your life for the next four months?
My new additional goal that I hope to achieve very soon is building my own house. I am currently sleeping in my neighbor's house which is always uncomfortable and not pleasing at all.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer.
Being able to pay school fees for my sister is the biggest difference that I have ever felt in my daily life. With my young age as this, I have the responsibility of taking care of my sister's fees yet I have no stable source of income. The transfers have always given me relieve to even strive further to provide for her. I currently work as a herdsman in my neighbor's place only to supplement what I get on a monthly basis from GiveDirectly.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
My goal is to have a house of my own. Sleeping in neighbours is very uncomfortable and one's freedom is abit restricted. I hope that in six months' time, I will be able to be owning one.
15th Payment
Transfer Amount
2280 KES ($23 USD)
access_time over 5 years ago
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How is your life currently different from how it was four months ago?
Over the last four months, my life has changed because I can afford proper meals. At my place of work, I used to miss some meals in order to save because I was using my salary to support my mother in providing for the family. The ability to buy food and still save some decent amount of money from my salary to meet my families needs is a joy I wouldn't have without GiveDirectly. Further, paying school fees for my siblings who are in primary and mainly for the one in secondary school has become easier. It is usually done in good time which gives them a good chance to advance and excel in their education.
Do you have any new or additional goals for your life for the next four months?
My new additional goal is to build a house for my self at my parents land. Currently, I don't have one. I live in a neighbors house who ha employed me and gives me accommodation. I would love to have to get my own house that will allow to organize and keep some of my belongings well.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer.
The biggest difference in my daily life is the fact that I have been able to easily pay for my sister's school fees. My biggest worry in my whole life was how she would get to go to secondary school to get the education I wanted for her. I didn't want her to go through the same plight as me and drop out of school because my father had passed on. My life got really hard because there was no help at all to pay for my school fees. Seeing my sister get the education has been the greatest Joy I have ever had. I will continue supporting using part of the money I get from GiveDirectly until she completes her education.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
I expect my life to change in the next six months because I will be having my own house. This will be a big step towards starting a family. I will have completed my house and will now be chasing another goal to buy livestock and then marry.
12th Payment
Transfer Amount
2280 KES ($23 USD)
access_time almost 6 years ago
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How is your life currently different from how it was four months ago?
I come from a single parent family and my mother has really been struggling to pay school fees fo my school going sisters. The biggest difference therefore is the fulfillment that I get when I am able to help my mother pay school fees for my sister in secondary school. I am so glad when I am able to keep my sisters in school and hope and pray that they study well.
Do you have any new or additional goals for your life for the next four months?
My current plan is to be able to build my own house at home. Right now I work at neighbors farm as farmhand and I stay and live here. I want to put up a house that which when I go back home, I will have a stay to live in.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer.
The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am able to meet my daily needs such as food and other basic stuff and still have enough to save. I am less worried about my sister's school fees since most of the transfer money that I receive goes to my sister's fees.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
My expectation in the near future is to build a house of my own and I am planning to get a wife soon. Once the house is complete, then I will be able and comfortable to bring her home and start a family.
5th Payment
Transfer Amount
2280 KES ($23 USD)
access_time over 6 years ago
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How is your life currently different from how it was four months ago?
My life is currently different from how it was four months ago in that my living standards have improved. I currently have better clothing and bedding materials that gives me happiness and a better life.Give directly transfers has opened up my minds in terms of goals and development. I am currently planning to start poultry farming as my own income generating activity.
Do you have any new or additional goals for your life for the next four months?
The new goal that I have in my life in the next four months is is to buy an heifer.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer.
The biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months is that I currently find it easier to get my basic needs. My family have enough and better meals for currently than before due the help of GD transfers.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
In the next six months I expect to have bought a calf, to have well developed poultry farming and to have improve my house.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
2280 KES ($23 USD)
access_time almost 7 years ago
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The recipient was not asked any questions as part of this follow up.
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access_time almost 7 years ago
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The biggest hardship I have faced is I was unable to complete my primary school education due to lack of money. Also another hardship is i earn very little money from my casual job which hardly sustains my needs
What is the happiest part of your day?
My happiest part of the day is in the evening when i get to rest after a hard days work
What are you planning to spend your transfer on?
I am planning to spend my transfer in building a house for myself and also buy goats which will help me sustain my income
What is the achievement you are proudest of?
The biggest achievement am proud of is i have built a house for my mother from the little income that I get