The GiveDirectly financial support has enabled me to enrol my son to a college. He is now comfortably progressing well with his studies. It has also been our dream to start a polytechnic which would be providing some tailoring skills since my husband is an expert on this. He was doing some classes in a rented room which he was paying every month. Thus through this money, we managed to buy the plot of land and built the classes. We have now enrolled some students who are learning, and this has been our greatest achievement even to helping the society. I give credit to GiveDirectly for helping us realise our goals.

Having been given the money unconditionally has helped us to improve our lives and save ourselves from the pangs of poverty which in my opinion, I feel GiveDirectly has done well. I do not see anything that GiveDirectly does not do well in our region.

My son had completed his high school studies and was to join college. Thus on receiving this money, I took KES 26000 of the second transfer to pay for his tuition fees and also did a shopping for him. We also acquired a piece of land at KES 16000 from which we have been able to buy enough building materials for the construction of a small polythechnic.My husband is running this polytechnic from which we have been able to enroll some students to take a tailoring course.I also purchased four goats to keep in my homestead.

The biggest difference in my daily life is the ability to raise school for my child with a lot of ease. I am so happy that I was able to let my child smoothly proceed to form four without any fee issue. It has always been a big problem for my husband and I to raise school fee for our children since I always stay at home taking care of the disabled grandchild. My husband on the other hand, through his tailoring business, works hard to raise some income for the family basic needs which hardly pays for the children's school fee.

I was asleep till dawn that day when the transfer came in. Early in the morning, I was surprised by a message notification icon on my phone, unlike other days when I hardly get messages. Opening it was a message from GiveDirectly notifying me of receiving cash from the organization. I was so happy and immediately informed my family, a message which received by a lot of excitement by all.

I used eighteen thousand to buy six goats. It has always been my wish to own goats since they are easily managed and requires little money to buy but since I got sick and with my disabled grandchild living with me, I could spend the little I could get on our basic needs and so making it hard and almost impossible to acquire even a single goat. I also used twenty-nine thousand to pay school fees for my children in secondary and primary schools. The remaining amount I spent both on settling a debt I had previously acquired and on medication for myself and the disabled grandchild.