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.
Bahati's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Bahati enrolled.
"The achievement am proudest of is educating my daughter through secondary school.I did all sorts of casual labour to pay her school fees. Although she got pregnant in the course of her studies, I am proud because she finally went back to school and did exams."
Beatrice's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Beatrice enrolled.
"I plan furnish my house, buy a ploughing machine for farming and to repair my house by plastering the walls and floor. I also plan to pay school fees."
Pauline's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Pauline enrolled.
"We plan to pay school fees, and to boost the small business we run and to build a kitchen"
Monica's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Monica enrolled.
"We plan to expand our house, furnish it and to pay school fees."
Priska's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Priska enrolled.
"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is that I have children who are school going and at times they are sent away for school fees when I don't have the cash."
Rose's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Rose enrolled.
"I am planning to spend my transfer on building a house as I don't have my own house currently, I will use part of it to invest in my small business of selling clothes and the remainder I will save it for my grandchildren who are very young so that when they reach school-going-age I will pay for them school fees."
Beatrice's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Beatrice enrolled.
"I am planning to spend my transfer on paying school fees for my children who are in primary school and one who passed exams to join secondary school. I will also build a toilet as I don't have one, I will buy a two cows one for milk and the other for ploughing my farm. I plan also to spend part of the transfer on buying a bed and beddings for my children and I."
Josephine's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Josephine received a $98 initial payment.
"l plan to plaster my house , l also plan to buy seats and to pay school fees."
Mary's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Mary received a $98 initial payment.
"I used the entire transfer to pay my daughter in high school fees."
Milkah's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Milkah received a $98 initial payment.
"l am planing to add more iron sheets so that l can exchange my roofing , l also plan to plaster my house and pay school fees."
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