I would like to start a business selling vegetables at the market. Buy them in Kilifi and sell them in Bamba. Right now I am the provider in the family and having extra money can save me a lot with the house bills.

Givedirectly has helped out, as a widow getting support goes a long way. I have a house where I can comfortably take care of my family.

I am a widow, my husband died seven years ago and left me with nine children. I work in a restaurant where I cook pastries and tea. I am paid $2.5 a day which I spend on food for the family. I also do a side hustle where I produce charcoal and my son sells it at $4 a sack. This money helps pay for my six children who are in school. Four are in primary school where I pay $1.5 a month and two are in secondary school paying $60 a term. Ever since my husband died I have never repaired my house and it was collapsing. I spent the recent transfer to build a new house which cost $450 and bought a mattress at $50 and used the rest on food.

I received the message notifications at around 9 pm when was about to go to bed after taking dinner. I had to wait until the next day for the helper to check and interpret the information on the phone since I am illiterate. I was very curious about the messages since it was within those dates when we were expecting the transfer to be sent. I woke up very early that morning and went to the helper's house. I felt very happy after being told I had received the transfer from GiveDireclty. We decided to go straight to withdraw the transfer because I had already planned for it.

Residing in a decent shelter after putting up a new roof to my house is the biggest difference in daily life. Previously, I had to spent sleepless nights during the rain period. Moreover, I was able to starting poultry farming an alternative source of income for the family. Initially, I was depending on crop farming which had been greatly affected by the drought condition that has prevailed in our area for over 2 years now.

My desire was to start poultry faming as a reliable source of income for the family. This is because I had the experience in raising them. After receiving the transfer, I spent most of it to built a structure and purchased 25 chicken and their feeds. I am positive that would make so much profit from this venture since I already have ready market of them. Furthermore, I used the remaining amount to renovating my house by putting up a new iron roof. The one we had earlier was leaking due to the old and rusty iron sheets. I bought 46 iron sheets, timbers and nails and a construction costs of KES 9,000. Currently, I happy that I reside in decent house courtesy of the aid from GiveDirectly.