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.
Richard's family
access_time 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."
Rose's family
access_time 6 years ago
Rose enrolled.
"Receiving this money means to buy oxen for cultivation. "
Anna's family
access_time 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. "
Poibe's family
access_time 6 years ago
Poibe enrolled.
"The biggest hardship i face is lack of any source to get money for feeding."
Gilbert's family
access_time 6 years ago
Gilbert enrolled.
"I intend to spend my transfers for buying a plot of land. This plot i shall develope it later."
Margret's family
access_time 6 years ago
Margret enrolled.
"The biggest hardship i face is lack of money to pay fees for my school going children. "
Hellen's family
access_time 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."
Joyce's family
access_time 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."
Christine's family
access_time 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."
Peter's family
access_time 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."