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
Jemimah
received a $23 twelfth payment.
"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that, I will have bought more goats. This will bring closer my dream of buying a dairy cow. The income I get from the two sources will be enough to do a lot in terms of running my family and achieving my goals. Before the end of this year, a lot will have changed because I will now have a diversified source of income. I will no longer depend on casual jobs in order to earn a living."
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5 years ago
Beatrice
enrolled.
"My life has been full of challenges in that i have had three miscarriages in the past three years. This is sorrowful since i face ridicules from my neighbours and friends tend to avoid me. Staying alone in my house makes me feel lonely but i pray that God blesses me with a child one day"
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5 years ago
Maculate
received a $453 second payment.
"My life is different than it would have been because I have constructed an Iron roofed house for my self. I used to sleep in a leaking grass thatched house. Am now very happy and confortable in my new house."
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5 years ago
Dina
received a $453 second payment.
"My life is different in that my mind is relaxed because as a family we aquired our own land. Before we got money we were hiring farm land which was not easy at all."
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5 years ago
Lucy
received a $530 second payment.
"GiveDirectly transfers have become a starting point towards a beautiful financially stable life. I would still be wallowing in debt as I would still be taking milk and other daily food supplies on credit. When the transfers came, I bought a cow that provides the otherwise very expensive milk and reduced my daily expenditure a lot. The money instead goes to meeting other daily needs more easily than beforer I recived the transfers. I am very happy that GiveDirectly came to my village."
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5 years ago
Imeldah
received a $23 twelfth payment.
"In the next six months, I plan to buy cement and sand which I will use in plastering the house. I am determined to plaster my house so that I make it one of the best in the village. I know with GD transfers, I will be able to achieve all my dreams."
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5 years ago
Philiph
enrolled.
"I live in a small house with my children.Being a widower,maintaining the house has been a problem for me.I have always desired to build a better house so that the one we live in will act as a kitchen.I have also wished to keep a few poultry as they come in handy when there is no other income.Receiving this money means that I will be able to build another house as well as start a poultry farm."
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5 years ago
Mary
received a $23 twelfth payment.
"In the next six months, I expect to have bought new chairs in my house such that I will be free to welcome my guests especially my small Christian group without feeling ashamed that they will have no chairs to sit on. We will also be able to enjoy our meals from the same table as a family since there will be enough chairs for us to sit on."
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5 years ago
Lily
received a $549 initial payment.
"Receiving this transfer was the happiest moment of my life. I have never received such an amount since childhood. This transfer came through at the moment I was really I need. i had alot of debt from school and my only hope was to sell my only cow."
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5 years ago
Wilkister
received a $23 twelfth payment.
"In the next six months, I want to boost the cereal busuiness which I will start with part of the transfers in the next four months. I would want to invest in the business so that we don't go back to where we were before the transfers. I would want to keep up the pace set by Gd transfers. I would not want to beg anymore."
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