My dream is to go back to school to complete my education and also to start a business that would boost our finances. To ensure that this dream is valid, I will manage my poultry project well and thereafter use the profit in starting accomplishing my goal. Though it might take longer, I am optimistic about it.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly has uplifted our living standards and we cannot thank them enough. So many people were able to accomplish dreams that were shattered due to financial constraints. We are forever grateful for the support that gave us financial freedom. Throughout my interaction with the GiveDirectly staff, I have not witnessed anything that was not done well. However, I will encourage the organization to do more evaluations even after we have received all the transfers in the future to ascertain the need to add more money to the needy.

Our village is a semi-arid place and most of the crops are not doing well. I opted to run a poultry project because it was the only promising thing that the risk was manageable. My husband works as a masonry and together we have a child. For a very long time I have been buying milk daily for our daily needs, and this has been very expensive. I could not afford one before due to financial constraints. Upon receiving my transfer, I used $220 in purchasing a dairy cow and thereafter, used $100 on the table banking to attract interest once I am ready to collect the money. Lastly, I used the remaining amount on foodstuffs and added some to my poultry business. I am so happy and grateful for the support that boosted our finances.

It was 7 am and I was at home having breakfast with my husband when suddenly my phone rang hence notifying us of a new message. I immediately took my phone and I checked it because we had earlier heard some of our neighbors saying that they had received their transfers. So we were eagerly waiting for it. I opened the SMS and I was so happy when I read that we had also received the KES 55000 that GiveDirectly had promised us. I told my husband about it as I showed him the SMS. He became so happy too and we didn't believe that it was true. We had to check the mobile money account balance more than twice before we became certain and we gave thanks to God for it.

The transfer has brought a big difference in our lives as a family. This is because we have managed to achieve our goal of building another modern kitchen and buying more chickens for rearing. These are the things that we never thought we will be able to achieve soon since we didn't have the money. The chickens have helped me a lot. I usually gather the eggs into a tray and sell them. The money that I get helps me in paying the merry-go-round group contributions. These contributions have been of great help to me. I managed to build a chicken house with the lump sum amount that I got one time when it was my turn to receive it. Other than that, we now own a sheep which is going to help us in the future when it will have reproduced and multiplied in number. We can sell some of them and buy a cow. Thank you so much GiveDirectly for everything.

We spent KES 35000 of our recent transfer on building another kitchen house. The kitchen that we had was a traditional round hut house that was grass-thatched and made of mud. We hence decided to demolish it and we constructed another one that is roofed with iron sheets. We had been meaning to do so for quite some time but we just had not gotten the money needed. My husband who is the breadwinner of the family usually does casual jobs at construction sites to earn some income. The money that he gets is thus not much. Other than that, we bought eight more chickens at a total cost of KES 5000. I only had two chickens and I decided to buy more because I have seen how beneficial they are. I usually sell the few eggs that I get from them and use the money on buying some of the essential household items such as sugar, soap, etc. We also bought a sheep at KES 5000. The sheep is going to be of great help to us in the future when it will have reproduced and multiplied in number. We can sell some of them and use the money in buying a cow. With the remaining transfer amount, we bought food with it, that is, a bag of maize, rice, cooking oil, etc. We are thus grateful to GiveDirectly for their big support.