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.
Dauda's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Dauda received a $462 initial payment.
"My daily life has totally improved in that, I live a more happier life. I never had my own plot of land because I didn't have money to buy one."
Kevin's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Kevin received a $462 initial payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is being able to acquire my personal assets such as a bull and my garden that I will use to team up with someone in the neighborhood and carry out timely cultivation and have extensive farming respectively. This has greatly given me a peace of mind."
Kevin's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Kevin received a $462 initial payment.
"The biggest change in my daily life is that, I live a healthy and good life. I was able to treat myself together with my children, bought clothes that have made us dress better than before. In the past, I was a casual laborer and wasn't making enough money to meet all my family needs like medical, clothing and food."
Kennedy's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Kennedy received a $22 eleventh payment.
"I hope that in the next six months, I will have constructed the new iron-roofed house that I am planning to construct. This will definitely give me a huge relief and earn me more respect among my peers in the village because in this era, living in a grass-thatched house is considered the worst form of poverty which I hope will change soon."
Benard's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Benard received a $22 fifteenth payment.
"With the pressure of moving into my own compound, I have been very stressed in the past few months due to the huge financial need I had. In the next six months, I hope that I will have completed the project and will be fully settled in my new home. This will also give me a break so that I can fully focus on my family's needs and most of my transfers will be used to take care of the basic needs of my children."
Jumwa's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Jumwa received a $541 initial payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is that the transfer has enabled me to buy a pair of oxen that I have desired to own for a long time. Previously I had no oxen and I had to hire from neighbors which was costly to me. Also, I could not manage to cultivate a bigger acreage which always led to food insecurity as it would not last us long. With the pair, I am assured of early cultivation and increase acreage for abundant yields."
Leonard's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Leonard received a $541 initial payment.
"The great blessing from GiveDirectly really elevated our joy. receiving it was the best thing to have ever happened in our lives. The money changed a lot of things and the biggest among them all is the fact that we nowadays have enough food to feed the whole family and the surplus which we do help other neighbors who might not be able to to get what to eat at a given day. We are really thankful that things changed and made us forget the hard times which we have been facing before."
Rosemary's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Rosemary received a $22 fifteenth payment.
"I want to gradually boost my cereal business so that in the next six months, I can be totally financially stable to be able to care for my family. I am also planning to install electricity in my house once I am done paying my grandson's school fees so that I can offer electrical services in my village such as charging phones for more income."
Joyce's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Joyce received a $542 initial payment.
"The biggest different my daily life it the happiness that the cow I bought using part of the transfer has brought to my life. We currently have enough milk from our farm for consumption unlike before when I used to buy little expensively to help us prepare a cup of tea for each one of us in the family. I currently save what I could have spent on milk and am hopeful that my cow will multiply in future hence will have more calves that I can sell to meet both basic needs and other financial needs arising in future."
Juliana's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Juliana received a $542 initial payment.
"The biggest difference in my life is the far I am in the process of building a new house. We are unemployed couple hence we primarily depend on subsistence farming and casual jobs to raise a living for our family. We have always spent most of our surpluses on our children school fees. It has been our daily goal to have a bigger and more decent house to cater for the growing family needs since the one we had has been too small hence making it uncomfortable to stay in with my children. I used the entire transfer to purchase building materials and am now certain with the quantity of materials I have that soon I will have my house built. I am soon going to give my children a comfortable space to have their private studies, to live in and a decent house to comfortably welcome my visitors whenever I have unlike before."