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.
Lorine's family
access_time over 8 years ago
Lorine received a $99 initial payment.
"We are planning to spend my upcoming lump sum payment on fencing our home to enable us start a vegetable –growing Project without possibility of animal destruction."
Mercy's family
access_time over 8 years ago
Mercy received a $99 initial payment.
"I plan to spend my upcoming lump sum payment on completion of my housing structure that had stalled , and also paying secondary school fee for my child."
Ludia's family
access_time over 8 years ago
Ludia received a $99 initial payment.
"We plan to spend my upcoming lump sum payment on extending our current house and cementing the floor, and if there will be a balance we will pay secondary school"
Philemon's family
access_time over 8 years ago
Philemon received a $99 initial payment.
"We plan to spend my upcoming lump sum payment on completion of house construction and installation of electricity"
Felix's family
access_time over 8 years ago
Felix received a $99 initial payment.
"I plan to spend my upcoming lump sum payment on changing from my current business to dry maize business, and also constructing a new house"
Quinter's family
access_time over 8 years ago
Quinter received a $99 initial payment.
"We plan to spend my upcoming lump sum payment on construction of a house and buying livestock."
Carolyne's family
access_time over 8 years ago
Carolyne received a $99 initial payment.
"We plan to spend my upcoming lump sum payment on purchase of big pipes to support irrigation for our tomato Project and also completion of house construction"
Irene's family
access_time over 8 years ago
Irene enrolled.
"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of enough money to build our own house, we still cook and eat at my deceased mother in laws house but we cannot sleep there due to cultural practices which dictate that a married son cannot sleep in his mother's house. This is unsafe at night because we have to go sleep in our tin shack which has no door."
Emilly's family
access_time over 8 years ago
Emilly enrolled.
"The biggest hardship I face in life is that I am like the sole breadwinner to my family and I have no proper source of income and I also have to take care of my parents who are very old."
Elida's family
access_time over 8 years ago
Elida enrolled.
"The achievement I am proudest of is that the land that I have built my house on belongs to me and I acquired it through savings that I had from my business of selling fish."