My new goal is to expand my business by investing more money in it. I have a tailoring shop and I would like it to grow so that I can get more income that will enable me to meet the needs of my family comfortably. Our other goal is to get money for paying school fees for our three children. Other than the tailoring shop, my husband is a small-scale farmer and he usually grows some crops and he sells them to get some income. We have thus been helping each other to raise money for school fees and it has not been easy.

GiveDirectly did well because they changed our lives for the better. Their staff taught us and we got to learn more about the program and how to spend the transfers wisely. They were also not biased since they enrolled everyone who was meeting the criteria. I do not see anything that they need to change and hence I would like to urge them to keep up the good work.

We spent KES 23000 of our recent transfer on buying a 3000-liter water tank. We decided to buy the tank so that we can collect clean rainwater for our household use. The water that we usually go to fetch from the river which is quite far is not clean. People usually do their laundry there and the dirty laundry water usually finds its way back to the river. With the remaining transfer amount, we spent it on building another bigger house. The one that we have been living in is small and the space is not enough to accommodate us and the children. We have been meaning for a long time to build another house and buy the water tank, but we were not in a position to since we didn't have the money. We are thus so much grateful to GiveDirectly for coming up with this program of supporting us. We now have clean water for our household use and the house is big enough to accommodate all of us.

We had just retired to bed as a family after having dinner. I heard m phone ring and I knew it was a message fb notification. This was rather unusual since I had never received any message that late. I checked my email the message and I was met with a pleasant surprise from gie irecky. I woke up my husband who was already asleep and shared the God news with him. He was equally very happy and we both celebrated the good news. The next morning we sat down and made plans on how we were going to spend the money to reap maximum benefit from it.

GiveDirectly transfers helped us as a few miky a great deal.. The fact that we now have a water tank in our compound and which has already collected enough drinking water is not a mean achievement.. We no longer have to travel for long distance in search of this otherwise basic commodity. The whole family is relieved including my three children who would have to travel such long distances too. Furthermore we now live in a very warm house and everyone in the family is happier than they have ever been.

We used KES 25000 to buy a water tank. This is. Something I had always wanted us to do and bring to an end the water shortage menace that was always giving us problems. The remaining amount of KES 30000 was used to improve our timber house. The house that we had was not complete and would be very cold at night making our nights long and uncomfortable. We bought plywood and erected them on the walls and we are extremely happy as a family that the house is now warmer than ever. All these investments we could not do before because the amount of money that I made from my tailoring work and that which my husband made from his casual job would just be enough to feed the family and left us with very little or no amount at all to save.