In the next year and beyond, I am planning to start up a small business of kiosk, I will be constructing a small shop nearby my home. Shops and supermarkets are far away from my community and people walk far away to the shopping centres since they are located far away from us. I am therefore anticipating that it will attract as many clients as possible since it will be near them. Besides, I am also planning to do dairy farming so as to get milk for my family's consumption and for sale as well.

According to my opinion, what Give Directly does so well is that they give out unconditional transfers, different people have different needs, and we have the freedom how to spend the transfers so long as it is something that does not harm us together with community members. The transfers are given in lump sum amounts and this helps in planning purposes in terms of the developments that we would wish to engage in at a personal level. Unlike other projects where it is given in small amounts. 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 stable source of income. I used the transfers to buy female cows for kshs 35,000. This is 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 of kshs 20,000 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.

The day I received my transfer, I can vividly recall that it was at 3pm when I was at home relaxing after a long day of hard work. My phone had run out of power. When I turned on my phone, I discovered that I had received $550 from GiveDirectly. I was delighted. This is because I knew that money would drastically improve our lives. I then told my wife, who was overjoyed with the news. My wife and I agreed to put our transfers toward the construction of a decent home for our family. We are grateful for the opportunity to improve our living standards.

For many years, I suffered from living in a house that was unsuitable for our children. I was not pleased, even though it was difficult to raise funds for construction at the time due to other pressing family needs. The most significant difference right now is that I have a decent roof over my head. GiveDirectly provided us with an incredible opportunity to transform our lives, for which we are grateful.

Receiving money from GiveDirectly was a great blessing. I knew it would have a significant impact on my life. My wife is a housewife, and I work as a security officer. We have two children together. After receiving my transfer, I decided to build a decent house for my family worth $370, which had been a challenge due to financial constraints. My living quarters were small and grass-thatched. We had no choice but to persevere in the difficult situation because we didn't have a choice. I then used the remaining funds to purchase two goats. The organization's support has significantly changed our lives, and we are grateful for the opportunity that has massively increased our standards.