I do casual work to earn a living. These include the following: working in others farms, doing laundry in others homes as well as guarding their livestock. The pay is too little that cannot pay all my bills, most of the times I depend on mobile money loans and this is challenging as I am not able to repay in time. In the coming years and beyond, I am considering to start subsistence farming like maize, beans, vegetables and tomatoes. I will be selling out some of them when produced in excess to get money for the family's food, clothing and my kids school fees. I will also be starting up a small business of selling groceries in a nearby shopping centre. The groceries have high demand as it is consumed on a daily basis. I will be saving the profits from the business for paying my children's school fees who are still in Primary School.

In my opinion, what GiveDirectly does well in this program is that we receive the transfers in lumpsum amounts. This helps in planning as one is in a position to do something huge as compared to when the transfers are given in small instalments. Another thing that GiveDirectly does well is that the unlearned recipients are taught how to use mpesa. This has reduced the number of theft cases in the community as most of us managed to change our pins to a more secure code. To avoid household conflict, what needs to be done differently is enrolling all the individuals in the household. During enrollment, those individuals who did not have responsibilities by then were left out of the program yet these are the same people who steal from their old and vulnerable parents. Another thing that needs to be done differently is enrolling all the communities in a specific village for uniformity purposes and this will prevent too many complaints coming from the communities that are left out during the registration to the programs

Before the transfers, I never had cows before as I had no source of income. I used the transfers to buy female cows for kshs 35,000. I decided to buy female cows for milk production for my family's consumption and sale. I do casual work to earn a living and most of the time the pay is too little to cater for my basic needs, I do top it up with the money from selling milk and this has enabled me to take care of other basic needs like food, clothing and kids school fees. I used the remaining part of the transfers to buy a piece of three-seater furniture. I used to fear hosting friends and relatives as I never had enough seats for them, but my self-esteem has improved since I started receiving transfers from GiveDirectly.

When I received my transfers from GiveDirectly, I felt so happy as I had never gotten such an amount before. I used to seek casual jobs so that I can raise money for buying food for my family and milk for use at home. I had no cow at all and that's why I used to buy milk more often. When I got these transfers, I saw a brighter future as I would buy a dairy cow.

Before, I used to work for people so that I can earn a wage or for them to give me some milk. After buying my dairy cow, I took a break from tedious casual jobs. My life changed tremendously as I am now busy looking after my cow which gives me 3 liters of milk every morning whereas I sell 2 liters which is equivalent to KES 100 per day. The money generated from the sale of milk enables me to buy other necessities for my family.

My priority was to buy a dairy cow and I spent KES 40000 on buying a lactating dairy cow. I made this sacrifice so that we can have milk for use at home, I had spent a lot on buying milk and it was my wish to bring this to an end. I am glad that I did so courtesy of GiveDirectly. I then spent KES 6000 on buying maize for consumption and the remaining amount of KES 9000, I spent on buying clothes for my children.