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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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I was up the hill near the church in a network area when i received the message i was too happy because I want to build my house but i didnt have money i used to fell so bad . Thank God I withdrew my transfer i was able to buy some things for.my project.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
I feel so happy everyday of.my life because i am able to do things that i want to do that's the big difference.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I pay children school.fees and bought zinc to.renovate my house.
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access_time 3 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
"My plans for this money are to make a business, and build my own house.
For the past two years our farm has stopped producing like before. We can't sell to get money to care for the family anyone. Our current farmlands are young, and it's not produce fertile corps for sell. Besides the farmlands being infertile, birds and other animals eat the remaining crops that is being harvested are used for getting little food for my family. Due to the current situation my spouse and I are now involved in casual labor to care for the family. This is difficult I think with this money, I can do big business that can generate sufficient money to care for my family basic needs like food, housing, and school fees.
The profit from the business can help build my own house also. For better business can used for ill like to make business because we have sent our children to school.
We also decide to build house because I'm tire renting. For the past 9 years I have being renting. Now my family size has grown making it very hard and it's unable to accommodate us. If we are lucky to do business, that will give good profit, we can build house with more rooms to take all the family.
Our children are sleeping in other people houses, and we are being laugh at. With our own house, all those things will end.
What is the happiest part of your day?
" The happiest thing that ever happened to this family since the last six months was the time I give birth to my baby five months ago, April 16, 2011, Saturday, at 3 in the morning.
During my pregnancy I was sickly, and was faced with many complications causing us to worried about my delivery. By the grace of God i give birth safely to a beautiful girl child, and that make the family and relatives very happy.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
"My family main challenges are food, school fees for my children. This year the farm is not producing as we expected. The little rice we planted did grow well, and the little that came up are being eaten by birds. As we harvest, we are unable to sell to get good money. This situation has cost my spouse to engaged in casual labor by brushing people farms before we get something to eat.
We also have no money to send our children to school. Four years ago we depended on our farms crops to send same of them to.to school, but now that our family size has grown, and the farm is no more producing like before, things has become difficult to getting money for food, then before sending them to school.
So far these are the main challenges facing my family. The situation is embarrassing to an extent that my spouse highly stay home, always on contract.
