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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2 years ago
Paul
received a $239 third payment.
"I spend my recent money on paying worker's for building my house and making dirt bricks."
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2 years ago
Beatrice
received a $239 third payment.
"I spend my recent money on buying zinc and I saw planks for my house."
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2 years ago
Victoria
received a second payment.
"I spent .y most recent money on zinc because my prayers have always been to construct a house of my own."
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2 years ago
Teta
received a $239 second payment.
"I want to see my family and I living in a decent place. Therefore, I am preparing myself to start a construction of a house through GD transfers."
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2 years ago
Theresa
received a $239 second payment.
"Life has been very difficult for my family. We sustain through the means of farming and most time the animal destroy all of our crops. My husband had to go into the bush to collect palmnuts, sell them before we have food to eat every day. Receiving this transfer help us to get proper meal for my family. I was able to complete my other house I stated building two years ago through Givedirectly funding and I'm greatful."
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2 years ago
Patrice
received a $239 third payment.
"What I hope to accomplish in the coming year is to have a good roof over my head and that of my family. Another accomplishment I am hoping for is to have my children in school and my cocoa farm growing well."
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2 years ago
Jerry
received a $240 third payment.
"My current house is really leaking and very small. Even though I am not renting, but I have decided to use the recent transfer purposely to improve my house and build another house. My recent transfer will be use to purchase house materials and pay contractors that will do the work."
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2 years ago
David
received a $240 second payment.
"My goal is to transition from thatched house to zinc house. I also wants to make a large rice farm inclusive of mix-cropping mainly to sustain my family. When this is done, we will all minimize food shortage and increase food productivity."
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2 years ago
Nathanel
received a $240 fourth payment.
"My goal is to leave my brother house and live in my personal house. This has been my long time desire but the possibility of accomplishing such goal wouldn't have come to actualization without Givedirectly unconditional cash transfer program. Completing such task means, I will now have a house of my own."
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2 years ago
William
received a $240 third payment.
"Completing my house and move in it is my greatest desire as well as paying my children tuition. Moving into my own house means so much freedom. I will not have a headache of landlord talking to me any how. I remain grateful for such opportunity from Givedirectly."
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