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.
John's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
John received a $98 initial payment.
"I'm planning to pay my wife's dowry and to hire land for maize and tomato farming."
Linet's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Linet received a $98 initial payment.
"I'm planning to start clothes business and renovate my house."
Susan's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Susan enrolled.
"My proudest achievement is having started a child center from scratch with limited resources from our savings and now it is up and running, in fact it is growing steadily."
Barack's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Barack enrolled.
"The biggest hardship I have is lack of a steady source of income this means I am often in debt and also unable to pay rent and school fees for my child"
Millicent's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Millicent enrolled.
"My proudest achievement is having saved profits from my small business, I used to sell fish, and bought chairs for my house."
Dickson's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Dickson enrolled.
"The biggest hardship I face right now is lack of oxen to assist me when I am ploughing my farm, it means I have to use a lot of manual labour and this is very inefficient."
Lidia's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Lidia enrolled.
"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is that paying house rent is really difficult as we only depend on farming as our main source of income and because farming depend on weather and season so we really have a problem when it comes to clearing our house rent."
Pamela's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Pamela enrolled.
"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is in terms of getting school fees for our children as we have three children in school and they all need school fees and two others who are expecting to join college but we don't have the money."
Lucia's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Lucia enrolled.
"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is in terms of school fees as we have out child who has finished secondary school and he is yet to join college but we don't have money to take him to college as our family income is not able to support him through college."
Everline's family
access_time almost 9 years ago
Everline enrolled.
"The biggest hardship that we face in our life is that during the El Nino rains,our farms got destroyed and all the crops were affected so we still don't have food to eat or to sell in order to get cash to support our family."