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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over 2 years ago
Elizabeth
enrolled.
"Receiving this money means a dignified life for me. With a family of two children, I have been staying in a house that is in very poor condition for the past 3 years. During rainy seasons, the house leaks due to rotten iron sheets. One side of the house is nearly falling. Living in such kind of a structure saddens me. I feel it lowers my self-worth and that of my family. I intend to renovate my house by reinforcing it with pillars and replacing the old iron sheets. This will cost me approximately 40,000 KES. I will be very much excited once I start living in my renovated house."
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over 2 years ago
Sellina
enrolled.
"I am physically disabled (cannot walk well), and a single mother who depends mainly on subsistence farming to earn a living. Since I am the sole breadwinner of my family of four, I have always yearned to establish a shop business since I feel that I can comfortably handle it. Unfortunately, I have never managed to raise the required capital because our subsistence farming could barely sustain us. God has wonderfully made my dream come true since I will use GiveDirectly's transfer to startup the business. I will establish the shop in my compound because I am strategically positioned in my village."
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over 2 years ago
Kabibi
received a $27 second payment.
"Managing to sustain and grow my small business has been very beneficial especially since I no longer have to burden my sons with financial responsibility and the funds have also enabled me to cater for the tuition of my grandchildren which is very vital to me since I they have been my sole responsibility ever since their mother, my daughter passed away."
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over 2 years ago
Kabunda
received a $27 second payment.
"The transfers have given me a form of empowerment because ever since I lost my spouse some years back the finances became very hard and most times I have to rely on my daughter who does manual jobs from time to time to provide for both me and her but ever since the money came I managed to ensure I could afford a meal because at times I had to go to bed hungry and hopefully in the near future the funds will help me rebuild my house which has been long overdue so I am grateful."
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over 2 years ago
Riziki
received a $27 second payment.
"The sustainability and growth has been quite tremendous both financially and mentally and I am so glad that finally my children are going to fit in just like the other children and I am so sure they will be very elated."
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over 2 years ago
Chai
received a $27 second payment.
"The funds have created sustainability especially in the financial aspect because apart from my one child, I also play a father figure role to my three nephews since they became my responsibility after the passing of their mother who was my sister, and at times providing for them was very difficult but with the funds I got to keep my business flourishing and in turn help in raising and growing my family with no difficulty as compared to before."
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over 2 years ago
Howard
received a $27 second payment.
"At home my father and I are the ones who are relied upon to provide for the family and we both rely on casual and manual jobs to earn a living and sustain the family, so the funds could not have come at a better time in my life because they provided great assistance financially especially since at times when we were not lucky enough to find any work, we would spend the day with no food and still go to bed hungry which was very difficult for the children."
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over 2 years ago
Caren
enrolled.
"Receiving this money means quality education for my children. I have one child, in University and 4 in primary school. I depend on my husband for everything in the household and the little he gets from casual jobs are not enough to sustain the family and pay for school fees. He gets around KES 300 daily which is too little to sustain a family of 6. I plan to use KES 60,000 for school fees and for the remaining I will buy a dairy cow worth KES 40,000 since I do not have one."
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over 2 years ago
Augustine
received a $491 initial payment.
"Upon receiving my transfer, I used KES 25000 to complete the construction of a house that I had started building before enrollment but left it incomplete due to insufficient funds. In addition, I spent KES 15000 to equip this house with furniture, mainly seats, and tables. From the remaining amount, I spent KES 5000 to buy a calf as a way of investing this money and spent KES 9000 on food and clothes."
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over 2 years ago
Laina
enrolled.
"As you can see I'm currently building my new house therefore i am very glad because this money will be used towards the construction and finishing of this house that I'm building. Additionally i will use it to buy food and a mattress and beddings."
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