Our new goal is to buy two more sheep and a cow. We have one cow and two sheep and we would like to add more so that they can help us in the future most especially with the children's school fees. We have two children and one of them is about to complete his primary school education. With the two cows, we will be able to get more milk and we can sell some. The sheep usually reproduce and multiply in number very fast. We can sell some of the offsprings in the future whenever we lack money and we have an emergency.

GiveDirectly staff taught us in the meeting that they held with the members of the community. We got to learn everything about the program and GiveDirectly. They also did well because they transformed the lives of many in the community for the better. People made many developments with the transfers and the village is no longer like before. I thus do not see anything wrong with how they do their work. I would like to urge them to continue with the same.

We spent KES 30000 of the recent transfer on repaying money that we were owing someone. We had borrowed the money because we didn't have enough money for buying a motorbike. It was being sold at KES 70000 and we only had KES 37000 from the first transfer with us. We bought the motorbike because we wanted to start the motorbike taxi business to get income for meeting all our needs as a family. My husband has been engaging in casual jobs to earn a living for us. The money that he gets paid is little and it is only enough to buy maize and the small household needs. I have been supporting him with the little money that I usually make from selling some milk from our cow. We are glad that we managed to buy the motorbike and we are now making more money than before which is enough to meet all our basic needs comfortably. With the remaining amount, which was about KES 20000, we used it in buying some household items that we didn't have. We bought some chairs, a gas cylinder, and some clothes for our children. We also bought some food with it. Thank you so much GiveDirectly for supporting us.

I was about to step out of the house, this is because I needed to go to the farm when I had my phone ringing, I can vividly recall that it was around 9 am upon checking my phone I saw a Mpesa message showing that I had received money from GiveDirectly, the excitement was immense that I never headed to the farm again, instead, I called my Dad just to concern if he too had received the money. I then embark to plan on how I would spend my money.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I no longer worry about coming back home, I have enough time to bond with my children, this is because I was able to purchase a motorbike, I get to earn an income daily from it, I am also proud that I was able to create a job opportunity to the youth who does the riding, I am so happy and grateful that I was able to realize my goals within a short period.

working as a casual labourer is not easy, you get to roam all over the village and the neighbouring villages in search of work, when I was promised of the unconditional transfer from GiveDirectly I thought of buying a motorbike bike to start a transport business, I had saved some money before, therefore, I topped up a sum of KES 37,000 in acquiring a motorbike, I then used the rest of the money in buying foodstuffs.