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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.
Victor's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Victor received a $22 initial payment.
"I expect my life to have changed in the next six months in the following ways; I will have many of chicken in my project and more income ,and i will have stared saving money to buy plot" (Campaign: UBI)
Joel's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Joel received a $22 initial payment.
"I now have a new goal of saving money through a merry go round where we the village members will buy each and everyone in the group a cow." (Campaign: UBI)
Agnes's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Agnes received a $22 initial payment.
"My new goal now is that since am living in a leaking grass thatched house I want to use these money to complete an iron roofed house so that we can move in and save ourselves from cold related diseases.I also want to fix electricity in it to ensure that all night activities are well done and there is warmth in the house." (Campaign: UBI)
Caleb's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Caleb received a $22 initial payment.
"In the next six months I expect to be staying in a new decent, modern house of my dream." (Campaign: UBI)
Ridha's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Ridha received a $22 initial payment.
"My expectation is that, in the next six months I will be having a new completed house for my children and in addition I would be having an operational poultry farming of at least fifteen indigenous hens. I am also hoping that if things go well I will be owning a dairy cattle." (Campaign: UBI)
Beatrice's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Beatrice enrolled.
"My biggest hardship is that I had to forgoe my dream of becoming a doctor because I gave birth to my son when I was in form one back in 2012 and could not continue with my education because my parent were no longer willing to pay for my fees since they wanted me to get married. I am now separated from my husband because we did not have a happy marriage." (Campaign: UBI)
Beatrice's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Beatrice enrolled.
"My greatest achievement that I am proudest of is the fact that I recieved the word of God. I believe that if it was not through this, I could be stressed up and long gone in this earth." (Campaign: UBI)
Hillary's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Hillary enrolled.
"Jn 2014, I planted maize and it was so unfortunate that it was affected by a maize disease. This made me and my family to lack food and it was so hard that we could sleep without taking any meal for the whole day and night. This came to be my biggest hardship I have faced." (Campaign: UBI)
Wiliter's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Wiliter enrolled.
"The biggest hardship i have faced in my life was when i lost my child last year in September. I gave birth to a premature baby at Longisa Hospital who had a hole on his spinal cord. He was admitted and the hospital bill accumulated to ksh80,000. My family and friends helped me raise ksh40,000 but my child succumbed to death. I am currently struggling to raise the remaining ksh40,000 in order to clear the hospital bill" (Campaign: UBI)
Zachary's family
access_time over 6 years ago
Zachary enrolled.
"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is, the burden of taking care of both my own family and my siblings with my meagre salary as a salesman." (Campaign: UBI)
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