Last year during a short period where we experienced very heavy rainfall my house collapsed and I have had to sleep in it since I have nowhere else to stay, and since then I have been in fear that eventually it could collapse with me still inside. So when I received the money I decided to buy bags of cement so that I could finally manage to renovate my house. I bought two bags of cement which cost me KES 1,240 and used KES 100 to transport them back to my house. I remained with KES 1,660 where I used KES 1,300 to purchase a bag of maize flour which contained a dozen packets then used the remaining balance to buy groceries like tomatoes, cabbage and kales.

I have an history of having pain in the pelvis area which made me have countless visits on the local clinics with no change.Givedirectly funds came while I had visited one of the main and biggest hospital in Mariakani and had some xrays done which depleted all my funds.I used the KES 1200 to buy the prescribed medicines and used KES 1000 as transport for my husband and I from Mariakani to Kilonga.At home we had no food and I used the KES 800 to buy food at that particular moment

I spent the whole of both the first and second transfer on the building materials (poles, iron sheets, nails) which we used to construct a latrine. We had one but it fell down leaving us with no option but to use our neighbor's latrine. This did not go well with us especially whenever we wanted to use the latrine at night or when we had visitors. I felt ashamed of myself risking my family's life walking all the way to my neighbor's home at night. I feel proud of myself for having achieved this goal. When I received the third transfer I spent on food stuffs for the family. We had run out of most of the food stuffs due to the poor harvest which resulted from the prolonged drought we experienced last year.

I am grateful because this funds have given me an opportunity to finish up what I had started but failed to finish but now I ma so happy that soon enough my home will be done and I cannot wait to start my own family.

A while back unfortunately my mud house collapsed on one side of the house due to strong winds and since the foundation was not strong enough so I had initially started renovating it bit by bit but this time round I was putting bricks but I had to come to a stop every time the money ran out. So after receiving the money I bought two bags of cement where each bag was KES 620 and they both cost me KES 1,240 and as for the labour I managed to pay KES 1,000. Then I used KES 200 and KES 100 to buy two packets of maize flour and a kilogram of beans respectively. The remaining KES 460 I put it in my savings so that it be of some use in the future.

I was very excited because during enrollment my husband and I thought this was merely a hoax, because there was no way an unrecognised organization would come out of nowhere and just decide to give money to people, and so we were very doubtful but after the transfers came in I was ecstatic and I had more faith that the program was genuine and it was here to help us.

I am a tailor by profession and I got to learn the art through my husband but at some point my husband fell sick, so after he was ill I was still an amateur but I needed to help in providing for both of us, and till date my husband's health has improved but not as much so with the money we receive I am able to at least cater for our livelihood from time to time when times get tough.

After receiving the money i decide to buy a sack of maize which I plan on taking to the mill and turn to maize flour and it went for KES 1000 because at that moment the nutrition department was not being covered so well due to our financial situation. As for the rest of the money I decided to save most of it for future use so I was left with KES 2000