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3rd Payment
Transfer Amount
47900 KES ($473 USD)
access_time over 6 years ago
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What did you spend your third transfer on?
I spent most of my third transfer on enrolling our son for an informal Motor Mechanic Course . He had dropped out of school during his 1st year in High School as he got discouraged since he used to spend most of his time away from the class as we could not always afford his School fee. We are very happy GD transfers enabled us to enrol him for Skills Training to prepare him fend for himself. We wanted to do this earlier but had no finances, until GD supported us.
2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
50000 KES ($481 USD)
access_time over 7 years ago
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What did you spend your second transfer on?
I spent 26000 KES of my second transfer on both plastering and renovating my house. I paid fee of 19000 KES for my son who joined a technical institute and my daughter who is in secondary school. I used 3000 KES on farming vegetables and used the rest of the money on buying food.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life.
The biggest difference in my daily life is having taken my children to school thus I am so peaceful and can afford a peaceful sleep at night. My house too is now neat and descent, this is one thing that makes a woman proud.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
10000 KES ($97 USD)
access_time over 7 years ago
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What did you spend your first transfer on?
I spent my first transfer on paying school fees for my two children who are in high school and primary school respectively 4000 KES. I bought a bag of maize 4200 KES and household expenditures 1000 KES
Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
Upon receiving my first transfer I never trusted the source I suspected it was a scam and I went an extra mile of confirming my Mpesa balance that verified it was true,I jumped out of joy since at the moment I didn't have any money even to go to my home as I had gone to a relative funeral event and due to the miscellaneous on the planning of the event ,I had to chip in some money thus exhausted the money I had.
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access_time over 7 years ago
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
My biggest hardship I've faced is lack of resources to cutter for basic needs, and also paying school. It has been a challenge because my main economic is farming, but of late, there has been extreme draught that has affected our crop production.
What is the happiest part of your day?
My happiest part of the day is noon time, this is because it normally find when we're from our farm , and ready to take lunch with my family and that's my happiness.
What does receiving this money mean to you?
Receiving this money is a great economic step, right now I'm stranded on how to pay school fees to my two children, now i have a surety that they will complete their studies.
