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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6 years ago
Jackson
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship we have faced in our family was when our cows dead, this was the only source of our income to pay school fee for children, buy food for family. It forced me to withdraw my children from private school to public school."
(Campaign: UBI)
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6 years ago
Mercy
received a $23 initial payment.
"I expect my life to change in the next six months since i will have bought a cow .I will have planted maize in my leased farm and for the first time,i will be accumulating savings in order to buy apiece of land."
(Campaign: UBI)
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6 years ago
Livingstone
received a $23 initial payment.
"I will believe that after six months I will have built my house and star livestock keeping."
(Campaign: UBI)
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6 years ago
Asha
received a $23 initial payment.
"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have already ventured into poultry farming hence my family would be able to eat eggs and I can even sell the hens to buy whatever is needed in my house."
(Campaign: UBI)
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6 years ago
Luisa
received a $23 initial payment.
"In the next six months I will have started my poultry farming and start doing my business of selling clothes"
(Campaign: UBI)
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6 years ago
Pauline
received a $23 initial payment.
"Yes,I have a new goal and I believe I will have built a new big house."
(Campaign: UBI)
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6 years ago
Rose
received a $23 initial payment.
"At a time like this we wont have planted anything in our farms due to lack of funds, but thanks to Givedirect for the transfer because they enabled us buy fertilizer and seeds and we have planted on time."
(Campaign: UBI)
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6 years ago
John
received a $23 initial payment.
"My life is currently different in that my son is full time in school unlike when he would spent sometime home due to luck of school fee. My happiness is that my son would concentrate with his studies without being interrupted."
(Campaign: UBI)
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6 years ago
Richard
received a $23 initial payment.
"I plan to open a butchery and join merry go round. I could not do any of these before when I was not receiving money from GD"
(Campaign: UBI)
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6 years ago
Mercy
received a $23 initial payment.
"My life is currently different because I have peace as a parent. I am assured that my children will have school fees. I used to be so stressed due to lack of money for fees but now the burden is over and I am at peace."
(Campaign: UBI)
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