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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3 years ago
Varney
enrolled.
"" If I'm opportune to receive this cash transfer, my wife and I will establish a business to enable us send our kids to school.
Due to the lack of junior or senior high school in our village, I was unable to complete high school. The ramifications of this has a far reaching effect on my family and I. As a result of this, I want to educate my kids so that when I'm old they can be able to catered for me.""
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3 years ago
Isatu
enrolled.
"Currently, my challenges are: I am a widow and my children are not working to support me financially. The little proceed from the market I sell is not enough to buy food and also maintain the business. I usually go out of cash to buy new goods because the profit from the market is spent on food and medicines."
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3 years ago
Hawa
enrolled.
"When I receive the money, I plan to build my own house. My husband and I currently live in a relative's house.
My family is very large. Wherever my siblings visit our village, there're almost always no enough rooms to accommodate them. When we build our own house, it'll help us create room for other family members to also enjoy the shared inheritance."
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3 years ago
Maima
enrolled.
""The major challenges my family is currently faced with are food and money.
Many days my husband has to carry log (Timber) for people in other to get some money for food. Some days we barely get food for the family, neighbors of good will at times help me with food just to be able to breastfeed our 5 months old baby. ""
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3 years ago
Sadaymar
enrolled.
"In order to feed myself and my children I will pay some villager here to make me a rice farm, lastly, I will try to start a small business with this town."
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3 years ago
Abraham
enrolled.
"My challenges are uncountable ; finding food as well as payment of school fees for my children have been my challenge. The reason I most often spend my day-to-day activities in the forest is to take care of my family members for which all have been not well ."
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3 years ago
Marie
enrolled.
"Being a phisically disabled person who always find it difficult to move freely around , I have experienced so many difficulties which includes ; paying of my children school fees, purchasing of new wheelchair to replace the present one given by my aunty Annie Toe in 2015 which is currently non-functional; roofing of my house with a curegated sheets to give my house a face and prevent a constant leakage during rainy season. So when I receive this unconditional cash transfer from Givedirectly, I will be able to solve the above mentioned problems."
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3 years ago
Solomon
enrolled.
"I'm getting much older and my present source of income is framing so it's real a challenge for me now."
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3 years ago
Fasileni
received a $376 initial payment.
"The biggest difference in my life is that now we have have food and blankets because that was very difficult for us to have around the house."
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3 years ago
Charles
received a $376 initial payment.
"The biggest difference in my life today I that now I have money, I didnt before so it made things very difficult for me."
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