I am looking forward to concentrate on modern farming now that I got my farm back. Putting more effort on maize farming will mean that I will have enough for domestic use and I will sell the surplus to pay school fees for my children when they join collage. I really don't want them to miss going to collage and chase their dreams and I cant wait for a day when I will see them graduating.

In my live, I have never received any financial aid and this seemed like a miracle to me and my neighbours.Seeing the development in the village for the last few months is evident that people know what they want in life and when given unconditional cash transfers, they can achieve their dreams. What GiveDirectly does well is living the recipients of their cash transfers to choose on what to spend the money on.

Few months ago, my children had been send home for school fees because they had accumulated huge school fees balance and I was not able to raise school fees and send them back to school . I therefore took a loan of $470 from my neighbour and gave my land as collateral. Since my husband and I are casual workers and we can only earn a highest wage of $4, we were not able to repay the loan and we had lost hope and accepted to lose the land. The saddest bit was that, this is the only land we had and now, we couldn't practice farming to at least harvest enough for domestic use. When we were enrolled in the program, we were so happy that our prayers were finally answered. We were able to pay the loan with our second transfer and spend the balance to pay school fees.

It was 7 am and I was at home preparing myself to go to the kitchen garden to weed when I thought of checking my phone which I had left in the house charging. I saw that I had a new SMS and on opening it to check the contents, I was surprised when I found out that I had received KES 55000 in my mobile money account that GiveDirectly had promised us. I was so happy and I immediately showed my husband the piece of good news. He was so happy too and we gave thanks to God for the blessing. I then proceeded to the farm to go do the work that I had planned to do since I was feeling happy and re-energized with what had happened.

The transfer has brought a big difference in our lives as a family. We managed to pay school fees for our child and hence we are happy because he has not been sent home due to school fees arrears. Other than that, we also managed to buy another cow to add to the two that we had. The cow is yet to calve but when it does, we will be able to get more milk for sale and get money for other important things such as paying school fees for our children.

We spent most of our recent transfer on buying another cow to add to the two that we had. We bought it at KES 40000. We decided to buy the cow so that it could help us in the future when it calves. We usually sell some of the milk from our cows, and hence with the new cow, we will be able to get more milk for sale and get more income that we can use in paying school fees for our children. We have four children who are still in school, two are in college, one is in the university and the other is still in secondary school. Getting money for paying their school fees has not been easy since we do not have stable sources of income. I usually do farming where I usually grow maize and sell them to raise some money. I used to supply the maize to the nearest school where one of my children used to study to pay school fees but now I have to sell it since he has completed his studies in that school. My husband on the other end is a broker in the business of buying and selling cows at the market. The money that we get from our hustles most of it thus usually goes to the payment of school fees for our children. With the remaining transfer amount of about KES 15000, we spent it on paying school fees for our child who is in secondary school. We are thus glad and grateful to GiveDirectly for everything that they have done for us. May God bless you.