My plan is to acquire more goats and eventually exchange them for bulls. These bulls will become a source of income for our household, as we can rent them out for ploughing. This will not only provide financial stability but also helps us meet our family's needs ensuring our children get to higher levels of education. Additionally, I plan to expand our house to accommodate my growing family. The current space is quite small, and my children are becoming adults. I hope that these plans will work out and improve our quality of life, thanks to the support from GiveDirectly.

Receiving Givedirectly cash transfers has been a turning point for our household. I have four children in school, the first thing I always do is to pay their school fees. I recently paid $60. In the past, my husband and burnt trees for charcoal production, a grueling process that took two weeks of hard work to earn $10, which was never sufficient. Currently with the support from GiveDirectly, I confidently take my children to school even with less school fees, knowing that the balance would be settled once I receive the next transfer. With part of the cash transfer, I bought a goat for $45 and we decided to transition from charcoal burning to farming. This has brought more stability to our lives, where we are producing food for our household. I'm so grateful to GiveDirectly for giving us hope and a chance to a brighter future.

My goal is to become a successful livestock keeper. I have always desired to rear livestock as a means of ensuring future self-sufficiency and to provide for my family's needs during times of need. Additionally, I aim to use the income generated from livestock farming to provide education for my four school-going children, reducing their struggles and ensuring a brighter future for them. With the transfers that I will receive, I plan to expand my current livestock holdings by purchasing more animals on most months.

Receiving the GiveDirectly transfers during a challenging financial period brought much-needed relief to my family. With four of my children sent home from school due to unpaid fees, I was unable to bring them back. However, the transfers came just in time, allowing me to pay $20 and took them back to school. The remaining $14.70 was used to purchase food for my family, ensuring that we had enough to eat. The support provided by GiveDirectly eased our financial burden and brought a sense of relief to our household.

Despite the fact that I have a lot of goals for my family, I hope to focus on livestock farming in the coming year. I currently have a goat and would like to add more as well as invest in poultry farming. I will gradually save money on eggs and goat offspring from livestock farming, which will come in handy when starting the construction of a new house. My family is growing, and I would like my children to have their own private space in the future, where they will not have to sleep in their neighbors' houses. Because I am earning a consistent income from my food business, I will set aside a portion of the transfers for the long-term goal of building a new house.

After receiving my transfers from GiveDirectly for the first few months, I opened a food joint, and its progress has been impressive, with daily profits of at least $5. I spent $25 on tuition charges for my four children, who were sent home at the time I received the most recent transfer. I am relieved they are no longer missing classes. I also replenished some of the $9 food that my family of seven is currently using. My husband produces and sells charcoal, which has helped us pay our bills. He has been helpful as the family breadwinner, ensuring that we have everything we require. Even though we don't save much from our small businesses, I am grateful for GiveDirectly's support in paying bills.

Words cannot express the immense joy that I felt when I was told that I would be receiving money for five years from GiveDirectly. School fees had been a major challenge that I had been dealing with for a long period, but the moment I was promised the unconditional transfer, I saw a light at the end of the tunnel. My husband and I are charcoal vendors and together we are blessed with eight children. I then used $60 on school fees and thereafter used the remaining $30 on foodstuffs. My children are in school and I am happy and relieved about it. I am forever grateful for the amazing support that lifted my living standards amazingly.

Three days prior to receiving the transfers my children had actually been kicked out of school due to me failing to pay tuition fee because I had money to do. Therefore as soon as I received the funds, I immediately went ahead and paid KES 2,000 to the school and luckily the next day, my four children were on their merry way back to school. I was left remaining with a balance of KES 1,000 which I decided to use on nutrition where I went ahead and purchased five packets of maize flour because they was barely any food in the house and the cost of living has gone extremely high.

In my opinion, I think GiveDirectly does well in giving us transfers. My kids have even gone back to school as a result of the transfer. I don't think there's anything you don't do well.

When I received the first transfer, my children had been home for 4 days due school fees arrears. I therefore, used the transfer to pay for their school fees. On the day I received the second transfer, my children had also been sent home due to school fees arrears but I was able to take them back to school immediately. I used KES 2000 at their school and saved the remaining KES 1000.

I was at home and felt so helpless seeing another day pass with my kids at home while others were in school learning. When I received the money money transfer message, I told my kids and they were so happy that finally they would go back to school. I went to the nearby market and withdrew the transfers which I pad in school the following day while taking my children back.

Seeing my kids spend some week in school without being sent home for school fees is not something that I was used to. I love seeing them stay in school and concentrate and I have so much peace in my mind nowadays.

I'm a charcoal burner and being a drought season, it wasn't easy to get trees because the big ones had been cut down by other charcoal burners because this seemed to be the only income generating activity in my reagion. I would travel far away to looking for trees only to come home with nothing. My kids accumulated fees arrears of KES 5000 and they were send home because I was not in a position some money for them to be allowed back to school. They were in distress because there was no hope of receiving the transfers any time soon. When I received the transfer, I used to whole amount worth KES 1150 to pay school fees and they were allowed back to school. I'm happy to see them back to school and I'm looking forward to clear the balance in some few months time so that they can fully settle in school and concentrate on their studies.