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
Richard
received a $23 initial payment.
"I am planning to buy a heifer from sale of cabbages in three months time of which I will buy the seeds with these first transfer so that milk production is sustainable.I also intend to pay school fees on time with these transfers. In case of hunger these transfer will help reduce hunger.I will also to acquire new clothes which will improve overall cleanliness with these transfers."
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6 years ago
Rose
enrolled.
"Receiving this money means to buy oxen for cultivation. "
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6 years ago
Anna
enrolled.
"Receiving this money means to build permanent ironroofed house. This will cut the cost incured in maintaning grassthatched roof , meaning the little money i save shall cater for other basic needs required in the family. "
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6 years ago
Poibe
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship i face is lack of any source to get money for feeding."
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6 years ago
Gilbert
enrolled.
"I intend to spend my transfers for buying a plot of land. This plot i shall develope it later."
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6 years ago
Margret
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship i face is lack of money to pay fees for my school going children. "
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6 years ago
Hellen
received a $452 second payment.
"The biggest difference in my daily life is that am now happy because of my garden that I have got back and my cow, If l wouldn't have got this money buying a cow and getting back my garden was not going to be easy for me and my husband."
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6 years ago
Joyce
received a $452 second payment.
"My life is different in that l have bought a cow and built an iron roofed house with Give Directly's transfer, l wouldn't have bought a cow and built a house without this transfer."
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6 years ago
Christine
received a $452 second payment.
"My life is different in a way that I sleep in an iron roofed house which I built with Give Directly's transfer unlike before where I used to sleep in a grass hatched house and now days I sleep with 2 meals a day, not as before where I could sleep without a meal a day."
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6 years ago
Peter
received a $452 second payment.
"My life is different than it would have been if I had not recieved the transfer in that there is more of liveliness in my home than before when all the time I would worry about the days meals and sickness that I suffered from. I feel like i am no longer sick."
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