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. Learn more about how recipients opt in to share their stories.
Ademun's family
access_time 6 years ago
Ademun received a $472 initial payment.
"I spent my first transfer to buy a bull at 900,000ugx, i bought beddings (mattress, bed, bedsheets and curtains). I paid school fees and bought scholastic materials for my children. The balance of the money am spending it on food."
Lydia's family
access_time 6 years ago
Lydia received a $476 third payment.
"I spent my third transfer on household fixtures three steel door and windows).I paid school fees for my son who is high school and my child to take his certificate ."
Maurice's family
access_time 6 years ago
Maurice received a $476 third payment.
"I spent my third transfer on building a decent three roomed house from grassed thatched house it was leaky mainly on rainny season. I paid school fees for my two children who were in nusery school and bought food for my family's consumption."
Mwanaidi's family
access_time 6 years ago
Mwanaidi enrolled.
"Receiving this money means investing in the future of my children through paying thier school fees and buying them other scholastic materials."
Elija's family
access_time 6 years ago
Elija received a $23 initial payment.
"I paid school fees in time without so much struggled and my son is studying."
Diana's family
access_time 6 years ago
Diana received a $4 initial payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life since i started receiving payments from Give Direct is that i started a shop business that enable me save for my school fees and also Iam able to buy my personal things like clothes and sanitary towels without asking my mother to help me with money."
Christine's family
access_time 6 years ago
Christine received a $451 second payment.
"I spent my second transfer to buy two cows, paid children's school fees, and bought house hold items like a mattress, bed-sheets, plates and saurce pans. "
Anna's family
access_time 6 years ago
Anna received a $451 second payment.
"I spent my second transfer to buy a cow, household items like a mattress , bed-sheets, curtains, clothes and paid school fees for my siblings. "
Plista's family
access_time 6 years ago
Plista received a $4 initial payment.
"My new goals includes: plastering my house, paying school fees for my daughter and buying household items such as chairs and tables on top of a cooking pot and a blanklet."
Jesca's family
access_time 6 years ago
Jesca received a $451 second payment.
"I spent my second transfer to pay school fees and it's requirements, bought food stuff and partly paid for a motorcycle taxi."
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