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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5 years ago
Banuli
enrolled.
"Receiving this money means to enable me buy a cow and build a house. I currently rent in some ones house , therefore saving money for maintaining my family is very difficult. Iam failing to pay my children fees because of no savings atall. I will be in position to save some money for educating my children after building the house. The cow will multiple and be a future asset in my family."
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5 years ago
Ronald
enrolled.
"Receiving this money means to buy a motorcycle. I will be ridding this motorcycle in the near by town of mbale carrying customers thus raising money for my family up keep."
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5 years ago
Sheila
received a $22 twentieth payment.
"My expectation and hope in the near future is to have a thriving business. I want to continue growing it and I hope what I will make from this business will be able to sustain me and meet all my personal needs comfortably. This includes paying school fees for my children and taking care of other family needs. I want to grow financially."
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5 years ago
Julius
received a $22 twentieth payment.
"My expectation in the near future is to ensure that my children continue with their education. I had at some point almost given up because tof the pressure of raising school fees for all of them. I am currently servicing loans I had taken to pay my children school fees and hopefully I will have cleared these in the near future. this will allow me to invest in a poultry project. I pray that my children would do well in school as this will amount to a reward to me as a parent."
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5 years ago
Janeth
received a $529 initial payment.
"I felt that I was the happiest person the day I received my transfers. This was majorly contributed by the fact that my life would never be the same again after spending the money. Being a casual laborer, receiving such an amount of money meant a lot to me. I knew the money could help me to venture into my biggest dream of starting a business."
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5 years ago
Maureen
received a $22 twentieth payment.
"In the next six months, my life will have changed in that I will have increased the acreage of land under farming. I expect to be doing better by adopting better farming practices thus will be in a position to have a higher income."
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5 years ago
Joice
received a $530 initial payment.
"The moment I received the money I felt so happy. I remember it was very early in the morning when I was taking my breakfast with my family. When I checked my phone I got a message from GiveDirectly confirming that I have received a sum of 55000 KES. I immediately inform my family members and the were all happy. From that particular moment, I knew that I will be in a position to buy a dairy cow. We are so garteful for the support we received."
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5 years ago
Vincent
received a $22 twentieth payment.
"In the next six months, I expect to have built a house for my poultry and that I will have already started stocking them. I also hope to be earning some income from this project that I really like doing."
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5 years ago
Willy
received a $22 twentieth payment.
"In six months, my life will have changed to a bigger percentage. Currently, I am living in a piece of land which belongs to my parents. But I plan to procure a land of my own few months ahead. It is from here where I will start thinking in lines of building a house and raising my family all together."
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5 years ago
George
received a $22 fourteenth payment.
"At the end of the six months, I shall have bought the goat for rearing as a finaincial security and an investment in my future life. As a man I need to be an expert in a field and this is by having a better education to be able to provide for my family someday. Rearing of livestock will see this come true and I shall have saved and ventured into it fully."
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