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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9 years ago
Loice
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship I have been through is I really wanted to get education but because of the financial instability in our family I was not able to"
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9 years ago
Robert
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship we have faced in life is getting a source of income financial instability has brought us down"
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9 years ago
Kennedy
enrolled.
"My proudest achievement is that I have managed to buy livestock. I was able to do it after saving money for three years."
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9 years ago
Hellen
enrolled.
"The biggest difficulty that I have faced in my life was when I dropped out of school. There wasn't money for my school fees and nobody wanted to support me. I was forced to drop out of school. It was painful to me."
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9 years ago
Pamela
enrolled.
"My proudest achievement is that I have been able to educate my first daughter through her high school. My husband died when she was just in class two. Knowing that she is about to join college makes me very happy."
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9 years ago
Risper
enrolled.
"My proudest achievement was being able to feed my children after my husband's demise by engaging in fish trade."
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9 years ago
Mourine
enrolled.
"The biggest hardship that we face in our life is that my husband has been going to college while doing his motorcycle taxi business so most of the money was going towards paying school fees so not much was left for food for the family. This made it diffic"
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9 years ago
Dancun
enrolled.
"The achievement am proudest was educating my eldest child to university level through some businesses I used to run. although my other children did not get to that level, I still feel happy and proud."
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9 years ago
Akilius
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"The achievement I am proudest of is that I was able to buy a piece of land using the money that I received from my farming activity. I was able to build a house on the piece of land."
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9 years ago
Kenedy
enrolled.
"The achievement I am proudest of is that I never had a job and fortunately a friend of mine that I assisted through praying for him when he lost his job, bought for me iron sheets and I was able to build the house that I am now staying in."
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