After I accomplished my initial goals, I developed an additional goal of starting a grocery business. Initially, I relied on rainfed agriculture which does not do well nowadays. Without a good harvest, I always tried to engage in casual jobs so that I can be able to supplement my household income. However, I was longing to start up and run my own business. I am grateful to GiveDirectly that as a result of its transfer, I have managed to develop a new goal which I shall pursue to implement.

GiveDirectly, in my opinion, does well in issuing unconditional cash transfers. This allows recipients to spend their transfer in any way they believe will benefit them. Furthermore, the practice of sending transfers via Mpesa increases our safety. We are vigilant due to the sensitization messages. Therefore, only a small proportion can be cheated by fraudsters. I also believe that though the hotline number, we can often stay in touch and provide prompt feedback to GiveDirectly. I have not yet observed what GiveDirectly does not do correctly.

At the time I received my transfer, I was down financially. I could not pay my children's fee arrears. Therefore with the transfer, I spent KES 40,000 on clearing the arrears. At first, it was many struggles to pay fees since my children were always sent home. A situation that forced me to try to do several casual jobs to raise fees. I am so glad that my children can now learn comfortably with minimal disruption. For the rest of this year, I will not be struggling as much as I had in the past.

I was at home relaxing with my husband and I was thinking out loud because I didn't know where I'll get money to pay school fees because my kids had been send home for school fees. I went to check to pick my phone from the shop where it was charging from and upon switching it on, an Mpesa message just popped and wow! I had received the transfers. I was so happy because I knew finally my children will be back to school.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have tap water in my compound and I nolonger have to go to my neighbor to look for water every day. My children have peace of mind in school and nolonger have to be worried that they can be send home anytime like they were used to before.

I spent KES 39000 to pay school fees for my two children in high school who had been send home due to fees arrears. I also spent KES 15000 to draw pipped water to my compound. This is a goal I wanted to achieve long time ago because I used to fetch water from my neighbor who had tap water in his compound and everytime she would speak ill of me despite paying for the water. I'm now at peace that I nolonger have to wake up every morning to go to someone's compound to ask for water and my children can have a long stay in school and concentrate on their studies after clearing the bill.