My new goal is to expand my maize-selling business. I want to expand the business so that I can get more income that will enable me to pay school fees for my children comfortably. I have six children. One completed his secondary school studies recently, another one is still in secondary school, and one other is joining the secondary school in the next academic year. My husband on the other end has a small restaurant. Most of the money that we hence usually make from our hustles is what we usually use in paying school fees for our children.

GiveDirectly is very committed to helping the neediest in the society and that is what I like about them. They are also not biased and their staff taught us well in the meeting that they held with the community members. I hence do not see anything wrong with how they conduct their work.

We spent KES 20000 of our recent transfer on buying a heifer. We decided to buy one so that it can help us in the future when it calves. We will be able to get milk for our consumption and we can sell some. We didn't have a cow and hence we usually buy a liter of milk every day at KES 50. Other than that, we also spent KES 17000 on buying a water tank. We bought the tank so that we could collect rainwater for our household use. We usually go to the river to fetch water and at times we do not get time in the evening for fetching the water. My children usually get home late from school and I usually go to the market to sell maize. We are thus glad because we now have enough water for use at our disposal since it has rained. We also spent KES 8000 on paying school fees for two of our children, and with the remaining transfer amount, we used it on buying food, clothes, and solar lamps for our children to use when studying at night. We are hence so much grateful to GiveDirectly for their help.

I was at home tilling my land getting ready for planting season. I heard a notification message on my phone and upon checking it was an MPESA message from Give directly bearing the good news of the promised cash transfer. I was overjoyed and I thank God that I could now commence on my plans.

The biggest difference in my daily life is clearing the outstanding tuition fees for my children.Seeing them everyday go to school shows a bright future ahead.

With a family of six members, all financial obligations had proven to be challenging. All four children are in school, two are in secondary school, and two are in primary. Upon receipt of my first transfer, I choose to prioritize paying Kshs.10,000 pending arrears for the ones in secondary and also used Kshs.2260 to clear the outstanding balance for the ones in primary. I am now at peace that they are currently studying peacefully without being sent home. With Shs.6,300, I choose to buy ceiling materials for my house with labor inclusive. I also spent Kshs.25,000 to buy a water tank since I use to go a far distance to fetch water, with the newly acquired tank, I will be able to harvest water during the rainy season which could sustain us for some time.With the remaining amount, I bought food that could sustain my family for a couple of months.