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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
25500 KES ($253 USD)
access_time over 4 years ago
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Do you have any new or additional goals for your life for the next four months?
I am getting older and older thus being less energetic to regularly go to the forest to fetch fire to sell like I currently do. In the next four months, a new goal I have for my life is to start a business to reduce my heavy work as I earn a living.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer.
I have been ambitious in giving my children a good education to help them better their life in the future. As a single mother with scarce resources, I had always overworked my self in casual jobs, farming and fetching of firewood from the nearby forest to sell from the nearby fo to earn a living and something extra to see my family through. Even though I always found myself doing such much my household needs had been overwhelming to be sustained. The greatest changes in my daily life after receiving my transfer are being able to offset fee balance and settling the needed fee to allow my child to complete her education. I am so happy that my ambition was supported by GiveDirectly and I thank them so much.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
In the next six months, I expect to have a peaceful and relaxed life in that I will have started a business. I am hopeful of a better life since I won't be spent much of my time again fetching firewood in the forest.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
23675 KES ($236 USD)
access_time almost 6 years ago
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Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The biggest difference in my life is that I paid school fees for my child who had deferred for one semester due to luck of school fees. My child is now in school and am happy see my child back in school.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
Receiving these transfer, I expect that I would have started a business and buy a cow .
How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
Currently am stressed free as my child is going to complete his studies after I managed to pay his school fees. This has given happiness in my life.
Do you have any new goals that you didn't have before receiving the transfer?
My new goal is to buy a cow so that I can have something to remember GD about. I have spent a lot of money buying milk on daily basis but I believe this will come to an end when I got my next transfer.
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access_time 6 years ago
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The biggest hardship i have faced is my 5th born dropping out of university due to lack of fees.When he joined 2014 campus I had to sell my only piece of land to raise his college fees which was not enough for the four year course,Last year he had to drop out since I could not raise his college fee.He has since then resorted to casual labour hoping that he would raise enough for his fees.
What is the happiest part of your day?
The happiest part of the day is in the morning this is because I am grateful to God for giving me a new day.
What are you planning to spend your transfer on?
I am planning to spend on my transfers on leasing land which I will farm on and get proceeds from there.
What is the achievement you are proudest of?
The achievement that I am proudest of is having educated my children,2 of them are now in university and for me this is a dream come true.I am proud of my efforts since raising school fees for them was quite a task since I am a single mother I had to do my business and casual labour at the same time.
