I plan to connect tap water in my compound. I'll used this water for watering my vegetables that I'll have planted. I also intend to sell the water to the people within my locality. I also plan to start a retail shop business for my wife. The income from both the shop and water shall help to pay school fees for my children.

The best thing that Give Directly has done is that it uplifted the whole village. It has eradicated poverty. Everyone in this village is singing praises for Give Directly. An area of improvement is you can consider giving out loans for people to repay later. You can also increase the number of transfers you send to be able to change our lives more.

I received the second transfer when my house was hunger stricken! I bought the following food items: 3kg of beans, 1 bale of maize flour, 2kg of sugar, and 1/2 a litre of cooking oil. These costed me kshs 2,340. My family needed some new clothes because we had not wore new clothes in a long while. So I bought 2 pairs of shoes , a pair of shirt and trouser each for my two children. 2 pairs of shoes and 3 lesos for my wife. Then 2 pairs of shoes, a jeans trouser, t shirt and a cap for myself. All the clothes cost kshs 6,100. We used to stay in darkness at night, we would sometimes just use a torch light. So I bought a solar at hire purchase and paid kshs 6,500. I used kshs 17,000 for fa clearing and planting of cassavas. I also bought seeds for maize, coconuts, and cassava. These costed kshs 2,800. I have invested this much in farming because I do not want to experience hunger in my house ever again. I had not completed the construction of my house, so I spent kshs 8,00 to buy 5 iron sheets, kshs 8,000 to buy a steel door and kshs 7,000 for labour.

I am a casual worker in a construction site, this requires me to be at work place as early as 7am, I received the transfers when I was already on my way to work. When I saw the notification for the mpesa ,I had to stop on the way for a while, just to confirm if it was indeed a genuine mpesa message. I felt so happy as previously I slept hungry since I had been financially unstable, at first, I had to branch in a nearby hotel to have breakfast then later I informed my wife about it.

My self esteem has improved so much.Since I received the transfers , I feel I have enough time bonding with my boys unlike before when I had very little time to spend with them. I get very busy during the day , yet at night there was a hurry to take them to their place of sleep, but since I built a room for them we get to bond so much and this has improved so much the relationship I have with them.

I am a father of four boys, for the longest time , I have had a small house of only one room, my boys have been sleeping from the neighborhood, I used the transfers to build a three bedroom house to accommodate all my four boys. This costed me Kshs 35,000, my peace of mind is finally restored as they do not move in the night while going to the neighbours to sleep, and again, I never had a kitchen, I used part of the transfers of Kshs 10,000 to build a small structure partitioned into, one for the kitchen and the other for rearing chicken. Having a large family, I stocked food stuff worth Kshs 10000, that can lust for almost two months. I thank Give Directly so much as my lifestyle has changed since I received the transfers.