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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What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
At present the only challenge we are facing are hunger and ill health. Due to erratic rains we didn't harvest any maize from our 0.5 acre farmland this year. Our staple food, in this family, is nsima from maize flour but as we speaking to you now we don't have any stock of that. This has made us resort to millet for food and our survival. When it comes to my health, I suffer from hypertension and I frequent the hospital visits due to this. I go atleat once a month to seek healthcare services. As such I am not as productive as I would like to be in helping to provide for my family.
What is the happiest part of your day?
We are generally pleased when we are living peacefully and happy with our friends and family in our village without conflicts.
What do you plan to do with the cash transfer?
As a household we intend to buy 6 bags of maize for food first. We believe this will be sufficient to warrant us food security and end the hunger crisis we are currently facing. Having done that we plan on buying some bags of cement to plaster the walls of our house and cement the floor. This is to give us the comfort of a home we've always desired but failed to achieve due to our dwindling income levels of $10 a month, mostly from hard to find pieceworks. This is how we plan on spending this money, unfortunately we are unable to put price tags on our expenditures because we are not sure of their current status.
