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.
Jonah's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Jonah received a $23 fifteenth payment.
"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have saved enough money in the group to enable me to buy another heifer. This will make me get enough milk in the future and reduce the cost that I currently incur in buying the milk."
Rael's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Rael received a $23 fifteenth payment.
"I expect my life to change in the next six months poultry in that I will have saved good money to build a bigger house for my poultry and also added the number of hens."
Mosonik's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Mosonik received a $23 sixteenth payment.
"My expectation in the near future is to buy another cow. As I wait for the current cow to reproduce, I need to add more. I want to improve and expand the scale and level of farming. Proceeds from the dairy cow and the poultry farm will help me achieve this. My financial status will definitely improve with time. I will be in a different social class compared to when Give Directly had not come to my life."
Salome's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Salome received a $23 fifteenth payment.
"In the next six months, I hope that I will have sold the amaranthus I am currently planning to plant and raised the money to be used in my dowry payments. The dowry payment has been troubling me for quite a long time now and I hope to complete it soon so that I can focus on other development projects."
Elizabeth's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Elizabeth received a $23 sixteenth payment.
"In the next six months, I expected to live a better life in that I will have bought a water tank. I expect to be having clean water for domestic use at my doorstep unlike now where I have to incur expenses to hire young men to help me fetch water. I will spend what I could spend on the water on other household daily needs or save for future necessities."
Joel's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Joel received a $23 fifteenth payment.
"My expectation in the near future is to ensure that my children are able to school well by providing all their needs. I hope that they excel in both school and general life. This will give me as a parent that inner joy. I also expect to enjoy a good health now that I can afford to plant and buy food."
Leonard's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Leonard received a $22 sixteenth payment.
"I have started a private school that has really picked up well even though I haven't fully registered it hence operating with few challenges. In the next six months, I expect to have fully given my school legal documents hence will be operating fully and all the returns will directly improve it and other investment. I will have more income to improve my school and invest in other business unlike now where I spent all the profits to put things in order."
Beatrice's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Beatrice received a $23 sixteenth payment.
"In the next six months, I expect my heifer to have grown bigger and will be about to calf hence I will be more hopeful than now. I expect to have bought more sheep hence will be more wort than my current life. I will be happy that I will be more empowered than now with my assets gaining value and this will also be my hopes for a better life since I will always have securities for any financial needs arising other family needs."
Mathew's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Mathew received a $45 eighth payment.
"In the next six months, I expect to be in a better position in financial stability since I will have harvested and sold cabbages that I currently on the farm. I expect my turn in the merry go round I joined to have come and I will have bought a cow to add to the two I have using the mone. I planning to use the remaining amount from what I will earn from both merry go round and cabbages sale to start a business and will be my happiness and hope of a better future."
Luisa's family
access_time almost 5 years ago
Luisa received a $23 sixteenth payment.
"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have to build a better house for my family through the savings and my family will have a good place to sleep."