Since I have rented an acre of land, I am hoping to have planted twice and use the profits to open a grocery shop so that we can rely on it for our basic needs. My daughter will be done with highschool as well, so I will not have any school fees to take care of.

I love that Give Directly decided to give free and unconditional transfers because we all have different needs and we were given the chance to solve them on personal levels. This also made many people financially responsible and more creative with money, given that many of us have never had this much amounts at once, it was a great opportunity to explore with different business ideas.

When I received my 2nd transfer, my daughter was already at home because of school fees arrears, so I used ksh 20000 to clear the balance and I was happy because she will be doing her exams without any stress. With ksh 5000, I rented one acre piece of land from my neighbour and planted maize and I will probably plant something else when harvest since rent is for one year, I used ksh 10000 to buy fertilizer and saved the rest of the money for food.

It was 7 am and I had just woken up when suddenly I heard my phone ringing notifying me of a new message. I decided to check it and wow! I could not believe it when I opened the SMS and I read that we had received KES 55000 that GiveDirectly had promised us before. I was so delighted on seeing this and I immediately informed my husband who was preparing himself to leave about the good news. He was so happy too and we thanked God for the blessing.

The transfer has brought a very big difference in our lives as a family. This is because having bought another cow, we now have enough milk for our consumption. We thus no longer incur the cost of buying some. We are planning to sell some of the milk and use the money that we will get from the sales in paying school fees for our children.

We spent KES 32000 of our recent transfer on buying a cow. We decided to buy it because we didn't have a reliable source of milk. The cow that we usually rear is not that productive, when it dries, we are usually forced to buy milk from the passer-by milk vendors. Most of the farmers no longer sell milk in retail since their milk has been booked by the milk vendors. We had bought another cow before but unfortunately, it died leaving behind a young calf. The cow that we bought is also going to help us in getting money for paying school fees for our two children. One who recently joined the secondary school and the other who is still in primary school. We can sell some of the milk and get money. Other than that, we spent KES 8000 on buying the necessary school items for our child who was joining secondary school. With the remaining transfer amount, we spent it on buying some clothes for the children and ours too. We also bought some digging hoes for use at the farm since we usually depend on small-scale farming of maize and beans to earn a living. We are thus so much grateful to GiveDirectly for helping us. May God bless them.