I have always struggled to pay school fees for my children. This is because I have always depended on a small income from casual work which is not even enough to meet all our daily needs. In as much as I used to get very little income, I would not have allowed my children to drop out of school at all cost. I still had to give it my best because I know when they are done with school, they will get well-paying jobs which will help them with their families. Even if they don't take care of me as I would expect, I would not want them to go through the struggles I have gone through.

GD did well in reaching to the vulnerable in the community. Giving money directly without having to go through Government official was the best in helping the poor. If not so, then most of the vulnerable would not have received their transfers. I appreciate that kind of service. Currently, I do not feel there is anything GD is not doing well and would still encourage them to continue with the good work.

I spent my second transfer on paying school fees for my children in secondary school. I paid the money to clear the balance they had in school. The balance they had dated back to last year and it was growing on a monthly basis hence I decided to clear it once. I used the rest of it on buying building materials such as cement and sand which I used on plastering the house. I am tired of smearing on a monthly basis and treating jiggers from my family too was very costly. My children could easily contract jiggers since I was not able to buy proper shoes or sandals for them to put on. I am glad I no longer treat jiggers as it was the case before the transfers.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now have additional assets of my own. This is after I was able to buy a dairy cow that am sure will assist us now and in the future in meeting the basic household needs of my family. I have also been able to improve my egg selling business which is helping us meet most of our family's basic needs much more easier than we found before we received the money from GiveDirectly. I am looking forward to exciting days ahead.

I received the money from GiveDirectly at around 4:00 am in the morning. I first saw an MPESA message from Safaricom notifying me that I had received a sum of KES 55000. I could not believe that it was true at first until I received a second message from GiveDirectly itself notifying me that they just sent the money to me.I could not sleep any longer owing to the happiness that overwhelmed me. I waited for my children to wake up and shared the good news with them and they were extremely happy as well. We already had plans on how to use the money and we got down to work the following day.

I used KES 30000 to buy a dairy cow and used the remaining amount to buy other basic household needs including furniture. I also used KES 8000 to improve my egg selling business. I took it as an initiative to use my first transfer to buy a dairy cow since I did not own one then. I am optimistic that this cow and other investments like my egg selling business shall help me in future to even pay school fees for my children as well as meet other basic households needs. Nothing is as fulfilling for a parent as being able to meet most some of the basic household needs of the family.