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.
Annah's family
access_time almost 6 years ago
Annah received a $23 fourth payment.
"I am planning to repair the walls of my house because they are almost falling down." (Campaign: UBI)
Magaret's family
access_time almost 6 years ago
Magaret received a $23 fourth payment.
"I have no new goal because I have not achieved my dream of starting second hand clothe business because I have a sick child whom I take care of.The little money we get we use to pay medical bills." (Campaign: UBI)
Lorna's family
access_time almost 6 years ago
Lorna received a $254 initial payment.
"I have a new goal to start a boutique as I was doing some other time so that I may start growing my profits out of it." (Campaign: UBI)
Millicent's family
access_time almost 6 years ago
Millicent received a $236 initial payment.
"I have a new goal of renovating my house so that it looks decent. I couldn't think of it because I didn't have a way of raising money to do it because I didn't have any source of income." (Campaign: UBI)
Gilbert's family
access_time almost 6 years ago
Gilbert received a $236 initial payment.
"My life is currently different because things were tough initially due to lack of funds but now I have some funds that have enabled me to achieved a lot in my farm." (Campaign: UBI)
Pamela's family
access_time almost 6 years ago
Pamela received a $254 initial payment.
"In the next six months, I expect to have attended a hair dressing college so that I can start up my own hair dressing shop." (Campaign: UBI)
Mary's family
access_time almost 6 years ago
Mary received a $23 fourth payment.
"I do not have any new goal because I have not achieved my previous goal of buying a cow." (Campaign: UBI)
Richard's family
access_time almost 6 years ago
Richard received a $254 initial payment.
"You can at times have goals but lack funds to execute them. I have been desiring to have a cow that will give us milk for sale as an investment. Our goal is to combine our household transfers from Give Directly to buy a good-breed cow that goes for 60000 KES. It will give us enough milk for sale and enable us to pay recurring expenditures such as school fee." (Campaign: UBI)
Esther's family
access_time almost 6 years ago
Esther received a $236 initial payment.
"I had time to stay home for a month just to ease away the fatigue that had accumulated from hard casual labor .I used to work continuously ,without rest because I needed to support my child in college. This changed when I received this transfer and payed school fees and bought some food materials.I even stopped going to a market to sell crops that had exposed me to a chest problem because of the morning cold.I was advised to stop doing it to reduce my pain but it was not until I got this transfer.This ability to get some time to rest is the biggest difference in my life." (Campaign: UBI)
Nelly's family
access_time almost 6 years ago
Nelly received a $254 initial payment.
"Arrival of GD transfer has reduced my poverty level in that am currently supported in my family expenses. Before the transfer came in, I could always spend all my income on household daily expenditure that couldn't even meet the expectation. I can currently save something small for my future and this gives me happiness and hope in life." (Campaign: UBI)
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