Currently, my life is different from how it was before Give Directly came into my life. I am now able to comfortably pay school fees for my sibling. They used to be sent home more often because of this. It reached a point they were almost giving up on continuing with their studies. I am glad that I was able to restore their faith and they are now studying peacefully. Apart from that, I also bought a house. I will no longer pay rent. I can't explain the peace of mind I have achieved after buying this house. No one will understand what the house means to me. I just have to thank this organization and continue praying for them.

My new goal is to start a business. I am a housewife and I depend on my husband for everything. I know that when I achieve this goal I will become independent. I usually feel like am a bother. At times, it is even embarrassing to ask for the cheapest household items. I am grateful to this organization for empowering me financially and making me know that my dream is valid I only need to look for money to actualize it.

I had bought a house although I had a balance to clear. I did not have enough money to pay the whole amount at once. When I received the third transfer, I decided to pay the remaining amount. I used to pay rent but I later found out that it was cheaper to buy a house. It was a bit of a hustle considering that I didn't have a stable job. Circumstances would force me not to pay rent and we would be locked out for months. I am very happy because I have my own house. I now have peace of mind. My husband doesn't have a stable job also and I would get stressed because I didn't know how we would complete paying the remaining amount. I thank GiveDirectly because they have restored me. I was almost thinking of going upcountry because life in the city without a job was difficult.

My life is currently different in that I now own a house something I did not have before receiving my transfers. My husband used to struggle to pay rent and at times it could accumulate for many months since he did not have a constant source of income and this has always been disturbing me. I am now happy since we no longer pay rent as we used our transfers to buy a house for our family. My husband can now save the money he could have used to pay rent and used it to cater for other family basic needs.

My new goals that I did not have before receiving the transfer is that I am planning to start a poultry project in my rural home. This project will be a good source of income to my family from the sale of eggs. This will therefore boost my daily income hence I will be able to provide the basic needs such as food for my family without any challenge. I am also planning to start a new business in Mathare where I sell cereals. Currently I do not have any source of income and starting this business will bring in more income and I will be able to help my husband provide some of the household needs. I will save part of the income I get from my businesses in table banking so as to use it to pay school fees for my daughter in future.

I spend my most recent transfer to buy a house in Mathare. We used my transfers with that of my husband to buy the house. He has been struggling to pay rent with the little money he got from casual work. At times he could not get any job to do and it will be a challenge to pay rent and meet other family needs such as food since I did not have any source of income. Thank you Give Directly for the support since I no longer pay rent and we could save the money we could have otherwise used to pay rent and use to provide other family needs.

My plan is to use my next transfer to expand my business by adding more stock and renting a premise where I will be selling the items. The rest of the money will be used to pay school fees for my niece in high school. Her mother is jobless which has always made it a struggle to pay the school fees.

I was a housewife before the money came which meant I totally depended on my husband who also relies on casual jobs. Life was quite hard because his income was not enough to take care of our needs, most of the time we would be locked out of our rental house due to delayed payments. Now that I have my own business, I can support my family with the profits that I make and I am happy that I can even help with the family responsibilities including rent payments. It is such a great feeling to be useful.

I Sent some of the money to my parents back at home for their blessings so that I would not squander the money. I also took some of it to church as tithe in order to thank God for bringing such a miracle my way and getting me out of poverty through GD. I used some of it to pay rent and purchase foodstuff then invested the rest of in cloth business for my own income since I did not have any source of income before.

Being a housewife,I have never handled such an amount. Knowing that I had just received 20000KES was so exciting that I could not sleep fro the rest of the night after reading the text message which came just before dawn.