I have one main goal. I already own a piece of land with some rental houses. I plan to convert the rentals into my own residential home. I will then construct modern rental houses on the new plot that I acquired recently. I also want to start a retail shop business on the modern premises I shall have constructed. All these will be a good source of income for my family.

Give Directly is doing everything well. The best thing is that you give us money without expecting us to refund. This has been of great help. Keep doing a good job. I don't see any area of improvement.

I used my recent transfer in a very useful way. I was not lucky to be raised my parents. I live with my grandfather and unfortunately, I do not have the right to a share of the ancestral land. I have always wished to own my piece of land. I got a plot of 50m × 100m which cost kshs 60,000. So I spent kshs 40,000 of my second transfer to pay for the plot. I had a loan of kshs 5,000 from our merry go round, so I used kshs 2,500 to clear part of the loan. I have also always wanted to own a goat. This is because when they reproduce, I can be able to sell them and sort out any emergency issues.So I used kshs 3,000 to buy a goat. I have 3 school going children. I spent kshs 2,000 to clear their school fees balance. My house had no lights so I used kshs 1,000 to pay for solar d-lights. I also bought 1 bag 50 kg maize flour at kshs 4,500. I'm so grateful that this transfer made it easy for my family to meet these needs.

Normally, during the day, you would find me in the farmlands taking care of the available plantation. On this day, as I was busy farming, I realized I had not heard any incoming messages or calls from my phone. I went to confirm and I saw that it had gone off. I replaced a fully charged battery with the one that I was using so it could power up. When I switched it on, messages started streaming in. Upon checking, I saw that I had received my cash transfer from give directly. I felt blessed. These funds came in in my time of need. I immediately called my husband who stays in a different town to inform him of the good news and we both agreed that I should buy food as I wait for his return the following week to discuss further.

Back then, my phone was very unreliable. It would lose charge very easily and sometimes not pick the network. Often, I would be offline. To avoid this, I had to frequently take my phone to distant shops for charging as I had no electricity installed in my house. Three out of my four children also had a school fee arrears of KES 3100. All this changed when I got the funds from giving directly. I got a new phone and I was able to purchase a solar panel that has been helping with lighting the house and charging our phones. Other than this, I was able to settle the fee arrears. Most importantly, my husband and I are in the process of acquiring land that is selling at KES 70,000. So far, we have managed to pay KES 35,000 and I believe using my next transfer, the payments will be finalized. Therefore, there has been a great difference in my life ever since I started receiving money from the organization

Before give directly, my husband, my four children, and I lived humbly in my parents-in-law's compound. There, we could get by with the KES 400 daily earning my husband makes as a traditional palm wine brewer. The house we lived in had no electricity and putting food on the table was also a challenge. Even worse, we were unable to be timely in the payment of our children's school fees. So, when I got the funds from the organization, the first thing I did was purchase some food as we had run out of it. I then bought a solar panel to light up my home and have somewhere I could charge my phone easily. For some financial security, we then bought a cow at KES 15,000. Additionally, my husband and I decided to purchase a 50 by 100 piece of land that was selling at KES 70,000. From the funds, I then used KES 20,000 as a down payment as we work on paying the rest in small installments.