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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What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Life has become unbearable for me and my family because I depend on casual labour and charcoal burning to fend for my family daily needs. Getting best stumps to use for charcoal is very hard because people we have already cleared all of it leaving out small stumps and this is the biggest challenges iam facing because If I had different source of income or be financially stable I could not struggle like this to cater for my family.
What is the happiest part of your day?
In our village people use to do commercial farming, Kenya seed company contract farmers to grow maize which is sold later to the company. I use to work on those farms as a casual labour when maize start to flower. So I decided to save some money to buy something for my family because I wanted at least to possess something for my own. And now I am very happy because out of my hard earned money I have two life goats in my compound.
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
Currently iam living in small grass hatched house which is not favourable for my family because sometimes it's very hard to get grass in our village to prepair the roof. I am planning to use GiveDirectly cash transfers to construct iron sheet house for my family. I am also planning to use the remaining amount of money to invest in livestock keeping, lease a farming land, buy food and also buy clothes for my children.
