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
Faith
received a $531 initial payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am now a self-employed person. I had yearned to start my own business for so long but I had not been able to achieve this due to lack of finance. Having my own business will enable me to help my spouse to cater to some of our needs. Also, I will be able to invest more part of my income. I thank God for GiveDirectly since the organization has helped me to achieve my hearts wish."
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5 years ago
John
received a $48 eighth payment.
"Currently, my life is different from how it was because my house is fully furnished. I was able to buy items especially utensils which I did not have totally. I used to eat in hotels because I did not have utensils. I am glad that I also live in a better house which I moved into recently. I can only thank GiveDirectly for financial support."
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5 years ago
Judy
received a $22 fifteenth payment.
"I expect my life in the next six months to have greatly changed in that I will have started poultry farming thus will have eggs for both household consumption and sales. I expect to be saving some money for any more investments or financial needs arising in my family. I am hopeful that in the next six months my heifer to be about to calf and this will always be my happiness."
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5 years ago
Agnes
enrolled.
"Receiving this money means I will be able to fence my home, buy a piece of land that I can cultivate and buy a cow that can reproduce support my family in the future."
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5 years ago
James
enrolled.
"Receiving this money means I will be able to buy a piece of land that I can cultivate.
I shared the only piece of land that I had among my children and now I don't have where to farm."
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5 years ago
Sammuel
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is lack of farm land.
I don't have food to feed the family because there is no where for me to cultivate.
My children have just a meal in a day because that is what we can afford.
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5 years ago
Florance
received a $22 eighteenth payment.
"I want to boost my small scale business which I have been running for the past years. I have to make sure that I get more raw materials in order for me to be able to make more profits in the nears future."
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5 years ago
Shikari
received a $531 initial payment.
"I was woken up by a message notification around 4:00 am. On checking to confirm who the sender was I realized that it was from GiveDirectly informing me I had received my first transfer. I was very happy to receive the amount of money that GiveDirectly had promised us. It was like a dream come true for me since I had never imagined that I would actually receive such amount of money."
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5 years ago
Peter
received a $22 fourteenth payment.
"I have always desired to build a new house since I am currently staying in a grass thatched house. I will be using part of my GD transfers to buy building materials such as iron sheets. Therefore, I am hopeful that in the next six months I shall be done with buying iron sheets so that I can now build the house I have always desired."
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5 years ago
Christine
received a $451 second payment.
"My life is different than it would have been because I am very happy to renovate my house which is in a better state. The household items acquired give my home a good ambience. Before, I had no household items, then my house was not plastered giving room for rats to create holes to hide within the floor."
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