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.
Kahindi's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Kahindi enrolled.
"Receiving this money will enable me to start a new business of shopkeeping. This will relieve me from the worries and struggles I have been facing from house construction business which I rarely get clients. Through the shop business, I will be able to focus on selling bread, sugar and other household goods that have a ready market in our village. "
Fredrick's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Fredrick enrolled.
"The biggest hardship I faced was losing my house to fire tragedy. I had to use all my savings to build the current house. This led to great decline in my business. I believe I shall revive the business again. "
Rose's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Rose enrolled.
"The biggest headship which I face in my life is extreme poverty. "
Jane's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Jane enrolled.
"The biggest hardship which I face in my life is poverty caused by limited land for farming. "
Ben's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Ben enrolled.
"I want to transform Mathare and make it a better place for living. I want to do this by bring up young talents in children. I want to create a platform where children can discover their talent at a young age."
Sheila's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Sheila enrolled.
"For the past five years, I have been cultivating maize on a hired piece of land and the production has been very low because of insufficient rainfall,planting of poor quality seeds,pests and diseases.This has actually made things worse for me, my household has never had enough for consumption during this period.My household has been forced to skip meals year in year out owing to this.The reality that my household at times is forced to skip meals continues to worry me."
Joseph's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Joseph enrolled.
"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is lack of stable source of income. I am a casual worker in the sugar cane plantation farms. We do not have work every day, sometimes I do go without having done any payable work. This means my family may also go without food. "
Erick's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Erick received a $45 fourth payment.
"I have a plan of buying a cow because I know it will give birth in the future and at the end of the day the number will increase. I will also have a chance to re-sell them and make profits and use the profits for other purposes."
Pius's family
access_time over 5 years ago
Pius received a $22 eighth payment.
"I plan to start a small scale business of buying second hand clothes and re-selling in the market area for purposes of generating profits for me. I once tried doing this business before but it collapsed because I had so much financial needs that exceeded the profits I made by then. I now want to revive the business in order to earn more money because I believe I am more settled right now and I am also more wise than how I was before in managing my business. The money generated from the business will be used to buy food for the family and also sort other family financial needs so that I will not have to rely so much on the cash transfers from Give Directly."
David's family
access_time over 5 years ago
David received a $538 initial payment.
"I used to depend on casual work like land cultivation, the pay was so little hence I could not save anything because what I received I used on supporting my family. I thank God through Gd, I have managed to buy six sheep for rearing which is my greatest investment. This is my biggest difference because I can say I am a rich man. I have future plans of selling them once they multiply and buy a dairy cow that will give me milk both for sale and also domestic use. This will increase my daily financial income and boost my living standards."