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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
25500 KES ($252 USD)
access_time almost 5 years ago
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Do you have any new or additional goals for your life for the next four months?
In the next four months, I have a plan of buying a chaff cutter machine for slicing straws and naphier grass which will save me time and money while feeding the cows. I incur costs especially because I have to employ someone to do the work. I am a dairy farmer and as I expand I always try to minimize costs.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer.
I was able to build a kitchen. I no longer worry now about leaking roofs and cold. Without the transfers, I wouldn't have built a new kitchen!. We used to stay in a mud-walled and flour and grass-thatched house that used to be so terrible and leaky during the rainy season. In fact, the floor of the house would sometime be filled by water sipping from the ground due to too much rain.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
In the next six months, I would add more dairy cows on my farm since I would have bought the machine which will enable me to slice the feeds faster and give to the animals. This would mean that I would generate more income through the sale of milk which will enable me to have more money to pay the school fee for my children.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
25500 KES ($254 USD)
access_time over 6 years ago
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Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The biggest difference is that I now have one more cow in my stock. This wouldn't have been possible without GD.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
In the next six months I expect to have expand my farming by adding fodder crops for my livestock so that I can get sufficient food for my livestock.
How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
Now having a heifer in my stock I expect when my lactating cow stops lactating my heifer would be almost calving and would continue having milk for use and for sale.
Do you have any new goals that you didn't have before receiving the transfer?
My new goal is to buy chaff cutter to help me in slicing fodder crops for my animals. This shall help me improve my livestock productivity.
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access_time over 6 years ago
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
My biggest hardships is when I lost my money amounting 1.8M through corruption. This really pains me as have tried since 2010 to claim it but so far so good I haven't been successful.
What is the happiest part of your day?
The happiest part of is in the morning when we wake up alive, this is when I thank God for the day great ahead.
What are you planning to spend your transfer on?
I am planning to use the first transfer on improving my dairy farm by building another structure and increasing feeds.
I will use the second transfer to improve my house- buying new seats.
What is the achievement you are proudest of?
I am so proud of my business, I started it with small capital but its growth has amazed me because through it I was able to educate my children and buy 5 ha of land.
