I believe all my hard work will pay off someday and it will not be in vain that I wake up early and I sleep late. My job does not bring in a lot of profit so I want to invest in something else so that at the end of time I will have a variety of sources that bring me profit. I want to start by buying a lot of chicken and when they hatch I can easily sell them and buy goats. When I buy goats they can easily multiply. When they do so, I get enough to sell and buy dairy cows and bulls. I really want to get a bull and a cow so that I can use the bull till my land and the dairy cow I milk them and drink the milk and the remaining milk I easily sell them.The selling of milk will bring in some profit and the bull will help me save my energy and at times I can rent it to someone and get paid at the end of day.This will help me easily multiply my wealth without incurring a lot of cost.

I am a mother of six children who sells fish for a living. I really work hard to make ends meet but on a bad day, I go home empty handed after a very long day of work. In good days, I make $3 a day which is not enough to even sustain my family. I have children who are in school busy chasing their dreams and I pray to God each day for them to complete their studies and be successful in life.The moment I received my transfers, the first thing that came to my mind was how to settle my children's school fees. I took $15 to settle their school fees and it released some burden of my shoulder. After settling their fees, I started thinking of what they will eat after coming back from school, so I took $10 and bought food.Since all boreholes are dried up because of the prolonged drought, we usually go fetch water miles away so I decided to pay a motorcyclist to get six jerry can at $3 in order for us to quench our thirst. The remaining amount of $5 I invested in buying two chickens that I am really praying they hatch and the chicks grow for me to sell.

I spent $20 of my recent cash transfer on paying fees for my four children in the nearby primary school. It has always been my pleasure to see get a better education but this was sometimes in vain because of the financial hardships that I have been undergoing for years. I am now thankful to GiveDirectly for empowering me in achieving my dream. Additionally. I bought a chicken worthy for $2 which will now serve as an asset that I can rely on at any time. With the remaining amount of money, I opted to buy foodstuffs for my family and other household items that I was lacking during that time.

I happen to have six children who are still pursuing their education, two of them being in high-school while the rest are still elementary school. Prior two receiving the funds my two oldest children who are in secondary school had actually been kicked out of school and had been staying home for a single day but luckily I received the funds the next day, so I ended up using KES 2,500 from the transfers I had received and paid for the both of them as school fees. I then went ahead and used the remaining KES 400 and paid examination fee for my four other children and the remaining balance of KES 100 I ended using on buying a half kilogram of rice.

The funds from give directly have been very helpful in the payment of my children's school fees. They have also improved my financial status. In my opinion, give directly has done very well and I do not see an area where they have failed

I am a mother of seven. My husband, who works as a farm worker, and I, working as a charcoal manufacturer, normally work hand-in-hand to make sure our children's needs are catered for. School fees payment has always been a challenge for us. Thereby, we had accrued arrears of kes3650. So, when I received my first transfer, I reduced it to KES3150. As for the remaining amount, I used KES2100 to buy food and KES400 to purchase chickens To keep reducing the arrears, I again paid KES1000 from my second transfer and the remaining KES2000, I used to buy a goat.

When I received the transfer, I was happy and very grateful. I knew it was the aid I needed to pay school fees, buy food and even buy hens; which I did.

There has been no difference in my life as of now. I was able to buy food, pay school fees and buy hens with the transfer.

I took KES 500 and paid school fees for my 4 kids. The remaining amount, I bought 2 hens worth KES 250 and the other worth KES 150. The rest was spent on food.