Our house is in a bad state, the floods damaged it. The transfer has come at an opportune time, I'm really thankful to Givedirectly. I will spend the first transfer of $200 to repair my house and buy food to sustain my family during this difficult period. Since I'm a farmer, I plan to invest in farming. I can plant maize for sale in an acre of land. It will cost approximately $400 to do this. The income from the farm will help me support my children's education and also meet other household needs. Additionally, we need to also add more income through sheep farming. They breed faster and are easy to manage here. There's enough grass and readily available markets. Plan to invest about $300 to buy four sheep.

I hired half an acre of land to plant maize recently. They are almost reaching the harvesting stage. We hope that in the next two months we'll have enough food to feed my family. It makes me happy seeing the maize grow well, and the floods rarely reach there. I'm confident of harvesting the maize to feed my family.

Floods have been persistent over the past four months, we have been displaced. During this period we've been forced to ask for hosting by neighbors from safer villages. Additionally, we also lost some of our household items such as utensils, beddings and ten chickens as a result. It has really made our lives hard and feeding our family is an uphill task. We depend on aid which hardly covers our needs and getting casual jobs or burning charcoal is difficult during the flood season.