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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6 years ago
Bosco
received a $440 second payment.
"I now have a new motorcycle that I never had"
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6 years ago
Namukose
received a $459 initial payment.
"I was so happy and overjoyed. I thanked God for my transfers and I prayed blessing GD."
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6 years ago
Stephen
received a $23 fourth payment.
"My new goat is to start saving and start livestock farming."
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6 years ago
Sam
received a $441 second payment.
"My life is different in that I have I have got a paece of mind because am relieved from the burden of look for thatch yearly, since am soon sleeping in an iron roofed house, constructing an iron roofed house in a short period of time is something that I couldn't have achieved had I not recieved this transfer."
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6 years ago
Samuel
received a $441 second payment.
"My life is different In that I have been in position to own oxen and an ox-plough that has greatly eased farming. I have also bought iron sheets that am intending to use for constructing an iron roofed house, getting all the above would not be possible had I not recieved this transfer."
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6 years ago
Simon
received a $441 second payment.
"My life is different in that I have been in position to buy 3 cows at once that am to pay for dowary, buying these cow would not be possible had I not recieved this transfer."
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6 years ago
Betty
enrolled.
"My father- in law has been sick for three years now.Since then,the burden of taking care of his family has fallen on me.I have to work daily in order to provide for them as well as my family too.When he needs medication,it all falls on me again and this sometimes strains me alot"
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6 years ago
Yovan
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is sleeping in a leaking house.
Grass has become too hard to find."
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6 years ago
Jennifer
enrolled.
"Receiving this money means I will be able to buy oxen and an ox-plough for opening up fields."
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6 years ago
Ana
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is inadequacy of farm land."
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