Our new goal is to buy another cow. We had bought a cow and its calf with the first transfer but unfortunately, the calf died and the cow refused to be milked anymore. We hence would like to buy another cow so that we can get more milk that we can sell and use the money on other important things such as paying school fees for the children.

GiveDirectly did well in that they enrolled everyone in the village and everyone got money. They were not biased. The lives of most of the people in the village were uplifted and they are hence not like before. I do not see anything wrong with their way of doing work.

We used part of the second transfer to pay off some debts. There was some money that I had borrowed from some people because I wanted to purchase a power saw and start the business of selling timber. I managed to start the business but unfortunately, there was a fire break-out in the nearby center where my business premise was and everything got burned down including the power saw machine. The people who had lent me the money have been pursuing me to return the money but I didn't have any. So when we got the transfer from GiveDirectly, I saw the opportunity to settle the debts. I paid off KES 12000 to one and the other I paid him KES 18000. I am happy to have done so since I have had some peace of mind. We also used KES 15000 to construct another house. We did not incur a lot of costs when constructing the house because we used the old iron sheets that we had. The house that we use to live in was my previous wife's house and that is why we wanted to construct another. I am casually employed as a motorcycle taxi driver while my wife is a small-scale subsistence farmer. The money that I usually get paid is what we use in purchasing daily food and other household necessities. With the remaining amount of money, we used it in buying food and I gave KES 2000 to my wife so that she could use it in buying clothes for the children. We are so much grateful to GiveDirectly for their help.

On receiving the message, I was glad to confirm that it was from GiveDirectly. At that moment I was on my way to the nearby dispensary since I was not feeling well then. I was much grateful and had to inform my spouse immediately after receiving medication and since we had all plans in place, we had to withdraw all the amount the following day and purchase a cow.

Having a lactating cow on my fiend at the moment and no longer buying milk but selling instead is the biggest difference in my daily life. This has been a great feeling to my family as we can afford to buy some food that we rarely afford in the previous months using the income from the two liters that we sell every morning. I am grateful to GiveDirectly for this generous support and looking forward to the second transfer.

I had been buying milk for my family of four for a long period since I had no cow on my field to supply us with milk. Managing the milk bills added to other household financial obligations has never been that easy but I am grateful that we finally bought a lactating dairy cow that came with a calf at a total cost of KES 38000 after receiving the first transfer. Since then, spending on milk has been a story of the past as I can sell the surplus to the nearby food joints to earn an extra income. I also replenished our food store that was slowly draining by buying a sack of maize at KES 3500. With the remaining amount, I started a clothes-selling business - this is an idea I had been hoping to start but the lack of enough finances had been hindering me. I am happy that even though it is slowly picking, I am hopeful that it will grow to a sustainable point that will ensure that my family is financially secured. I spent the remaining amount on obtaining new pairs of school uniforms for my two children currently in primary school.