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.
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over 8 years ago
Charles
received a $496 second payment.
"I bought a cow ( 25000 KES) a sheet and a goat(5500 KES) steel door (7000 KES) furniture (5800 KES) and paid school fees (3000 KES). Am still saving 3500 KES."
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over 8 years ago
Boaz
received a $496 second payment.
"l spend the transfer to buy 2 cow-bulls at 28000 kshs, l also paid fees of 13000 kshs to my child in high school, l also add 5000 kshs into my business and the remaining a mount l spend to buy foodstuffs."
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over 8 years ago
Shem
received a $496 second payment.
"I used my transfer to buy two cows (30000) for dowry, used transport to and from my wife's place (4000), gave an acceptance offer to my wife's family (5000), bought iron sheets (5000) and food (4000)."
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over 8 years ago
Pamela
received a $496 second payment.
"I bought (furniture12000 KES) a cow ( 18000 KES) treated my child (1000 KES) school fees (5000 KES) two sacks of maize (2000 KES) and spent 5000 to clear land issues."
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over 8 years ago
Rose
received a $496 second payment.
"l have a very small house but now l have hopes that l will have a spacious house and the first a mount l was given l also spend to buy cow now l am getting milk from it."
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over 8 years ago
Daniel
received a $496 second payment.
"I paid school fees (15000 KES) bought two cows(24000 KES) iron sheets (6450 KES) and the rest for shopping."
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over 8 years ago
Eunice
received a $496 second payment.
"I spent the transfer on buying 3 cows to pay my dowry ksh 47000 and pieces of iron sheets ksh 6200."
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over 8 years ago
Margaret
received a $496 second payment.
"I spent my transfer on a cow (12000) and built a new house (38000)."
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over 8 years ago
Jane
received a $99 initial payment.
"If you can help me get my upcoming lumpsum payment, I will buy a cow and 15 iron sheets and build a better house."
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over 8 years ago
Saline
received a $497 second payment.
"I bought a mattress at 4,000KES, sofa set at 15,000KES, one cow at 15,000KES, one clothe box at 1,500KES, two plastic chairs 1,600KES, used 2,000KES on transportation, used 1,500KES to buy a radio and 500KES gumboots for my husband, bought 5 iron sheets at 3,100KES, 5 kilograms of nails at 1,600KES, paid 1,700KES school fee for my three children then used the rest on daily sustenance."
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