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.
Pamela's family
access_time 5 years ago
Pamela received a $22 eighth payment.
"In the next six months l expect to have started saving to pay for my daughter collage fee ."
Gaddy's family
access_time 5 years ago
Gaddy received a $22 eighth payment.
"In the next six months l expect to have started saving for my project of putting up my home."
Agnes's family
access_time 5 years ago
Agnes received a $22 eighth payment.
"In the next six months l expect to have started cattle keeping by buying a few goats."
Dismas's family
access_time 5 years ago
Dismas received a $22 eighth payment.
"I expect to have started saving to build a spacious comfortable house since l am staying in a very small house."
Juliana's family
access_time 5 years ago
Juliana enrolled.
"Indeed God is always fairhful to me and my family. I have been struggling in vain to build an iron-sheet roofed house so that I could collect rain water for drinking and other household uses as my neighbors do. Luckily, receiving this money means that the dream will materialize, and thus we shall have adequate rainwater and gain a higher living standard."
Kazungu's family
access_time 5 years ago
Kazungu enrolled.
"I am a livestock vendor and my business requires working capital of not less than kshs 100,000 to generate substantial profit. Receiving money from GD means I will have enough working capital to trade and make adequate profits that I will later on use to buy livestock for keeping.Livestock to me is a store of wealth and that means I will be self reliant because of GD."
Kahindi's family
access_time 5 years ago
Kahindi enrolled.
"Having lost my eight oxen and five goats to drought two years,I have been reduced to a subsistence farmer yet I used to produce more and sell to other community members.Receiving this money means I will be able to buy two more oxen,ox plough,knapsack sprayer that will help me upscale farming to commercial levels. I will also build a new house because the current one which was built in 1979 is almost falling on us."
Jane's family
access_time 5 years ago
Jane enrolled.
"Receiving this money means I will be able to buy new bedding, I will buy chairs and buy solar that I will use to light the house. Since I do not have a reliable source of income, I find it very expensive to be buying kerosene every evening to light the house and I could not raise enough money to buy solar, this transfer is going to enable me achieve this milestone. It will also help my grandchildren because they will study using the solar light. For a long time I have slept on torn mattress with old blanket that I always felt ashamed when visited with my sisters, I will also be able to buy new mattress and blankets. I have lived with the embarrassment of having guests sitting on very old chairs in my house, I will be able to buy chairs. And to ensure I get continued supply of money, I will use the second transfer to buy cows that after a short time shall deliver and I will be able to milk them. Part of the milk will be used by the family while the rest we will sell to get money to by food for the family and save for fees of my grandchildren."
Daniel's family
access_time 5 years ago
Daniel enrolled.
"The biggest hardship I have faced have been my child sickness. Most of the time my little baby falls sick, I think sleeping on old rags could be the reason for her frequent illness. I have to spend most of the money I get from the casual employment in taking her to the hospital always leaving us with money to buy clothes of even proper food. "
Eria's family
access_time 5 years ago
Eria enrolled.
"When i receive this money, i will use it as capital to start an animal farm."