My new goal now is to start looking for next year's school fees for my child. This will give me enough time to have the required amount, now that the support from GiveDirectly helped me meet some of my immediate needs. I feel more energised working towards this goal.

In my opinion, what I love about the aid from GiveDirectly is that is non-refundable. Therefore one spends the money with all the confidence without any feeling of fear of loss. This has allowed us to even plant even with the irregular weather in our locality.

I am currently rearing a cow given to me by my neighbor which I should return soon. I do not have my own cow at the moment, therefore I spent Ksh 30000 to buy a young heifer. This, hopefully in the future, will be a source of milk for my family and sell the extra if any for an income. I also I paid in full my daughter's school fees for the year which included the arrears that I had with KSh. 10000 and I am assured that she wont be sent home for unpaid school fees anymore for the year. I spent the rest of the transfer to buy farm inputs such as maize seeds. I am so grateful for the support that Givedirectly has given us.

It was 8:30 am and I was having breakfast with my daughter who was at home for the holidays since the schools were closed. I had earlier heard people in my neighborhood saying that the transfers had been sent. I hence sent my daughter to go get my phone from the main house. She came back smiling telling me that the transfer had been sent. She had found a new message and she had checked it for me since I do not know how to read. I was so happy on hearing this and we thanked God for blessing us too. We then later on sat down and we started planning how we were going to spend it.

The transfer has brought a very big difference in my life. This is because I managed to achieve a lot with the money. I now have a cow of my own and we will no longer lack milk for our consumption when it calves. I also managed to finish building the house that we had left pending for a while. We now have enough space that can accommodate guests visiting our household. Other than that, I also managed to pay school fees for my child. I have thus rested a bit from going out to do casual work since I am busy taking care of the cow that I bought. The chickens that I bought are helping me in that the money that I am getting from selling the eggs is helping me in buying the small household items such as soap.

I spent KES 25000 of my recent transfer on buying a heifer. I bought it because we didn't have a cow of our own. The one that we had was not ours, we had borrowed it from someone. I then spent another KES 20000 on finishing the construction of the house that I had left pending for a while. It has always been my wish to buy a cow of my own and finish the construction of the house but I was not able to since I didn't have the money. I do not have a stable source of income and hence I usually engage in doing casual jobs to earn a living. The money that I get paid is less and hence most of it usually goes to the purchase of food. I at times save some through the merry-go-round contributions of the self-help groups that I am in. The lump-sum amount that I get from the group is what usually helps me in paying school fees for my one girl who is still in secondary school. I also spent another KES 7000 of my recent transfer on paying for her school fees. With the remaining transfer amount, I used it to buy three chickens, some clothes, and maize for our consumption. I am thus glad and grateful to GiveDirectly for helping us.