The new goal that emerged recently is that I am yearning to enrol in a tailoring course whenever I will acquire cash. I have been jobless for years with no experience and I feel this has contributed to my extreme poverty life. I believe that if I will get the chance, our living standard will change because I will be working hand in hand with my spouse to make sure that we make the ends meet.

According to me, GiveDirectly has done well by giving out cash transfers and their aim was m to improve our living standards. This has empowered most of us to own permanent iron-roofed houses from temporary grass thatched huts. I, therefore, do not see where GiveDirectly has not done well.

I spent part is my second transfer on paying school fees of KES 18000 to my son who is in his second year in high school and three in primary school respectively. I am overwhelmed with joy to see them back at school again after a long stay at home due to the arrears. I am positive that this year, they will perform better hence a brighter future. Additionally, I bought a solar panel at KES 10000. This has been of help especially to my children because they no longer strain whenever they want to study at night like before. This is also an assurance that their performance shall improve. Also, I cleared a debt of KES 20000 since initially I had purchased a motorbike on credit. I am so thankful that for now, I have full ownership and it has started operating. with the remaining, I bought food for the seven family members.

It was around 6 a.m. I was getting ready for my 1-hour walk to go and fetch water. I had an incoming message and upon checking, I saw that I had received funds from give directly. This made me feel euphoric. For days we had been sleeping in the dark as we could not afford to pay for the installed solar energy panel. Even before I went out, I made sure I had made my payments. This was the start of a great memorable day.

To get water for our consumption, I am compelled to wake up at dawn and walk for an hour to go fetch it. The house I lived in together with my family had also collapsed due to heavy rains. We were forced to move to my neighbor's house where we stayed for 4 months. My husband got a builder to build a room for us where we lived up until when I got the funds from give directly and continued with the construction of the house. Now our living conditions have quite improved as the only thing remaining is the plastering of the house. I also got to pay for the motorcycle and the solar energy panel I had bought on hire purchase. Weekly I normally pay KES 3990 for them. Since I had absconded payment for the motorcycle, they were to repossess it but to avoid this, I paid KES 5600. My house is now smart and presentable.

The funds came in at a time when I needed them the most. This is because the house my family and I lived in had collapsed so we had started the construction of a new one. I used KES 24000 to buy the materials required, including the payments for the builders. The construction is almost complete, and the only thing remaining is plastering it. I also utilized the money to settle my 4 children's school fee arrears of KES 5000 and I added KES 8000 for their term's fee. The remaining amount I used to pay for the installments of the motorcycle and the solar energy panel I had acquired on hire purchase where I pay KES 2800 and KES 490 weekly respectively which I was unable to expend. This is because, due to the droughts, my business has not been doing well. Thereby forcing me to depend on my husband, who works in a different town and has an inconsistent salary.