I can say that my life has changed to an extent because I now have two sources of income unlike when I had only one source of income in the past. I now find it easy taking care of my family especially in terms of paying school fees for my children and my nephew. I employed my sister to work at the butchery and at the end of every month, I pay her her salary which makes her financially independent so she does not have to fully depend on me for financial assistance as she used to do in the past.

Currently, I am trying to figure out the strategies I can use to expand the business so that it can generate more and more cash both in the short term and the long term. First of all, I think I need to make savings as much as I can apart from just investing more money from my other full-time job where I have been operating as a taxi driver on a full-time basis.

I have always preferred to be a full-time businessman so immediately I received the transfers, my main goal was to open up a business that could sustain the family going into the future by generating more money which we could use to keep the family going. I opened a butchery where we mostly sell fish. I had to pay the rental obligations for the small structure where we have been doing the business and I had to part with close to Kes 30000. I also had to buy the initial stock of fish which I started with and I must stay that it was very costly. On top of that, I had to get a deep freezer used for preservation purposes. Since the business premises was not in a very good condition and the standards I expected, I had to do a bit of renovation and repairs in order to bring to my expected standards.

My life is currently different from how it would have been had I never received the transfer because I now have my own business. I have always thought that I would always depend on working for other people. My life is currently different from how it would have been had I never received the transfer because I now have my own business. I have always thought that I would always depend on working for other people. All this changed because I am now the one employing people after GiveDirectly decided to bless me with some money. I don't think I would have diversified my source of income and attain the goals that I have achieved at the moment if I only depended on my taxi work.

My additional goal in my life that I didn't have before receiving the transfer is to expand my business by opening more butcheries in different places. Since the business is doing so well I am now planning to open new branches in different town centers. I want to settle a few things before I start establishing the new areas. I am happy to be a beneficiary to this project because my life has changed greatly and I will change other peoples lives too by employing them in the new areas that I will open the new butcheries. These butcheries will also ensure a stable source of income to my family.

I am a taxi driver and thought of starting another business in order to expand my source of income and when I received my most recent transfer, I decided to spend it to open a butchery business. I decided to venture into the butchery business since there were no butchery shops in our place. I knew the demand was high and hopefully I would succeed in it. Since most people like meat, I knew I would get enough profit. I also have already gotten some tenders from different hotels whom I supply them with meat on a daily basis. This business is doing well and I don't regret going for this idea. I thank GiveDirectly for giving me a start-up capital.

I am a driver at an uber-company. As an employee there, I can be given a loan depending on how I provide customer services to my customers alongside other things which they are checking. I am now planning to take this loan and use them to buy a car which I will be operating as a taxi. With this, I will be able to repay the loan and get some money for my family's daily needs.

Since I used the whole of my transfer to start a poultry project, I have not started selling anything yet. I believe that after some few months from now, my daily life will start changing as I will start earning some money from this project and I can use the money to expand this project.

It has always been my dream to start poultry farming after the one I had started collapsed six months ago because I had to sell everything in order to use the money to pay for my son's hospital bill. When I received my recent transfer, I spent the whole amount in buying some chicken and their feeds so that I could start up this project. I decided on this project since it can be done alongside other jobs as it does not require full-time attention. Because of this, my mother now oversees this project as she goes on with her restaurant business.

It was around 8.30 am as I was going on with my daily work when I received my money. At that instant, my heart was filled with happiness. This money gave me hope of starting my poultry farming business again. I then called my wife so that I could share the good news with her.