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 7 years ago
Grace
received a $474 third payment.
"My life is different now i have an iron sheet roofed house and paid school fees for my children which i wouldn't have manage if i never received the transfer."
(Country: Kenya)
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over 7 years ago
Godwin
received a $474 third payment.
"My life is difference than it would have been if I never received the transfer since I have managed to build a big house and clear the large amount of school fees that was remaining."
(Country: Kenya)
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over 7 years ago
Jane
received a $475 third payment.
"My new goal is to open a grocery shop to enable me earn daily income."
(Country: Kenya)
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over 7 years ago
Lilian
received a $475 third payment.
"I spent the third transfer on paying college fees for myself 12,000KES. I also bought 12 bags of cement 8,400KES ,sand 6,000KES,ballast 9,000KES, murrum 4,000KES,wall nets 3,500KES and seat covers 2,500KES ."
(Country: Kenya)
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over 7 years ago
Rose
received a $475 third payment.
"From my third transfer, I bought iron sheets at 8,400 KES, bought building nails at 700 KES, bought timber 10,000 KES, made a down payment of 5,000 KES on a cupboard I intend to buy, , bought steel door at 5,000 KES and the remaining 14,625 KES I have kept as savings."
(Country: Kenya)
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over 7 years ago
Dorothy
received a $475 third payment.
"Yes,my new goal is to plaster my house and build my son a house."
(Country: Kenya)
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over 7 years ago
Phoebe
received a $475 third payment.
"I have a new goal of buying oxen for tilling my farms. I didn't have this goal before receiving the transfer"
(Country: Kenya)
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over 7 years ago
Josephine
received a $475 third payment.
"My husband used to be arrested most of the time for driving without a licencs and without GD,he could have been in jail now. Thanks to GD for the transfers,at least he has the license."
(Country: Kenya)
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over 7 years ago
Ros
received a $475 third payment.
"My crops used to be destroyed by animals anytime i planted so i spent my third transfer to buy poles and barbed wire that i used to fence it."
(Country: Kenya)
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over 7 years ago
Grace
received a $475 third payment.
"The biggest difference in my life is that I've built a house, paid school fees and bought a cow. I'm no-longer the poor woman people knew in this village. Thank you Givedirectly for uplifting me."
(Country: Kenya)
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