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.
Jane's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Jane received a $22 twentieth payment.
"Our expectations in the next six months are really many but based on our priorities as a household, we expect to have bought a heifer in the next six months and if we will be having a surplus amount, we will be leasing a bit of land so that we can put it under cultivation alongside the livestock project we are starting."
Christine's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Christine received a $517 second payment.
"Before I could struggle to do hard and low paying causal jobs in my community. This was so engaging and the certainty of getting it on a daily basis depended on chances . Therefore, meeting my family's needs was straining. I had felt devastated by the hardship I had been through. My life is different since I have found ease to pay school fees for my three children without straining. I am happy because I can now stock food for monthly use in the house with the business profits that I had started with GD's transfers."
Esther's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Esther received a $535 initial payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have been able to improve my house to a more permanent and an easy to maintain one. It happened so fast that it makes me feel so grateful for the support that I just received. I will no longer have to go through the hustle of trying to maintain a mud walled house and this has brought a lot of difference in my life. "
Benard's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Benard received a $248 second payment.
"In the next six months, I am hopeful I will have raise some cash to help me invest in tea farming as it is the main source of revenue in my home area given that the climate is conducive for tea farming."
Solomon's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Solomon received a $468 initial payment.
"I show a mobile money message at around 6:00 AM as I was switching on my phone, when I went ahead to check I had received money from GiveDirectly. At that moment I became very happy and started planning the time to with draw it."
Lilian's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Lilian received a $535 initial payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am now more economically empowered than ever before. I feel so happy that I now have assets of my own and I will be able to meet the cost of my needs now and in the future with much ease. "
Nelly's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Nelly received a $248 second payment.
"I think there will be a slight change because once the school fees are paid in a good time, I will be able to carry out with my studies and probably proceed to the next level of my academic ladder, which according to me is growth."
Wesley's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Wesley received a $535 initial payment.
"Before GiveDirectly came for enrollment, I was contemplating on selling a piece of my land to get money to use in clearing my children's school fees. This is because my spouse and I had tried all the possible means to raise this money but had not been able to manage it. Since we did not want our children to miss their examinations, we had come into an agreement of selling this piece of land as we had no other choice. GiveDirectlys transfer came in handy and at the right time as it made possible for us to clear our children's school fees without selling our land. I consider this as the biggest difference in my daily life and as a miracle to have my children continue with their education and still have my piece of land."
Rebecca's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Rebecca received a $22 twentieth payment.
"With my next transfer, I am thinking of wiring our house and connect the electricity to it so that we would have good lighting. Currently, we are using solar lighting which when it doesn't charge due to lack of enough sunshine during rainy times it would stop functioning as it doesn't charge. I intend to connect electricity to our home so that we would have a reliable source of energy."
Dennis's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Dennis received a $22 twentieth payment.
"With the current plans going well, I have a great expectation that in the next six months, I will have increased my farm under production and also I will have purchased the motorcycle since I am currently expecting a bumper harvest from my fields."