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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8 years ago
Jesca
enrolled.
"The biggest achievement was when We managed to buy a mattress because for long we have been using a mat."
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8 years ago
Susan
enrolled.
"My proudest achievement is having joined a merry go round (informal savings group) and managed to buy a mattress and a blanket with the little money I saved."
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8 years ago
Evaline
received a $99 initial payment.
"i bought a bed worth 4000, a mattress 1800, a goat at 2000 and the remaining 2,200 i used on food."
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8 years ago
Walter
received a $494 second payment.
"I used 7,000/ to pay school fee,2300/ buy mattress and 700 on food"
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8 years ago
Petalis
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship currently is lack of proper bedding, we sleep on very old mattress bought more than ten years ago."
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8 years ago
Esther
received a $494 second payment.
"I bought mattress at 2000 KES, cloths at 200 KES, suitcase at 18OO, blanket at 1200 KES and one suck of maize at 2800 KES."
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8 years ago
Benard
received a $494 second payment.
"I bought a sack of maize worth 1,800,clothes worth 1,600,school fees worth 300,utensils worth 2,000,mattress worth 3,500,shoes worth 1,000,and finally 300 used for hospital bills "
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8 years ago
Mourin
received a $494 second payment.
"I bought a mattress at 4800 shillings, paid school fees 2000 shillings for my grandson Sam Junio Onyango, 3500 shillings for buying one sac of maize."
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8 years ago
Esther
received a $494 second payment.
"I bought a sofa set at 3800 KES, a mattress at 3500 KES, and used the rest on food when I received the GD first transfer."
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8 years ago
Dorothy
received a $494 second payment.
"I bought a mattress worth 5000/- i bought clothe box worth 3000/- and the remaining 2000/- bought i bag of maize at 1800/- and the rest 200/- i spend on food."
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