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Cornelius
landscapeCountry:
kenya
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faceAge:
27
workCampaign
UBI
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23rd Payment
Transfer Amount
2280 KES ($22 USD)
access_time over 4 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 foour months, I will be spendin gmoney I receive on buying building materials to make my dairy farm.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer.
The biggest differnce in is school fee payment fo rmy children
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
I expect that I will have improved in increasing income. I will bee doing milk production in a better way
 
20th Payment
Transfer Amount
2280 KES ($22 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 four months’ time, my new goal for my life is to begin livestock keeping. I have been wishing to have livestock as one of my economic activity but I did not have the ability to do so. Now that I am able to provide for my family’s basic needs, a new way of generating income is keeping livestock which would later be sold when they have reproduced or have grown and can be sold for money.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer.
The biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months is that I am currently in a very able situation to provide my family in terms of food and other basic necessities. The transfers gave me the mental freedom to even venture into other farming activities that I was doing at a low scale. The produce that I get is enough to supplement my family until the next season. I also feel a bit relaxed since I never struggle so much on casual labor that I usually do.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
In six months’ time, I expect to have begun a shop business. I hope that the proceeds that I get from this business will be a boost to my family in terms of basic needs provision, school fee payment and general wellbeing of the members.
 
16th Payment
Transfer Amount
2280 KES ($22 USD)
access_time over 5 years ago
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How is your life currently different from how it was four months ago?
My life currently different from how it was four months in that I do pay school fees for my children and their performance has improved greatly. My family gets the basic needs on time unlike before.
Do you have any new or additional goals for your life for the next four months?
I do not have a new goal for the next four months but rather improve my dairy farming project by buying the right tools for use and also to improve on the breeds.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer.
The biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer is that I do pay school fees for my children on time and the are no longer sent home to collect the money. Their performance has greatly improved because they spend much time in school studying. I work for a construction company and the do not pay on time. This was making me not to clear the school fees and my children could take some time before reporting back to school and this was affecting their performance. I could not also meet the basic needs like buying food for the family on time because of a delay in salary from that company and this was making me feel demoralized sometimes. Currently, I'm so happy because our living standard has changed and we get what we need at the right time.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have saved enough money to buy enough feeds for my cows and also produce quality milk that meets the demand of buyers at the market.
 
12th Payment
Transfer Amount
2280 KES ($23 USD)
access_time over 5 years ago
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How is your life currently different from how it was four months ago?
Buying a prime piece of land that is a plot is quite expensive. The purchase used up all my savings yet its payment was not yet complete. were it not for the cash that comes s every month, I would have had to shelve the long term Idea of buying the parcel. But knowing that even after using all my savings, I get monthly transfers to complete the transactions, I got the confidence to proceed. Without this program, I would be owning this plot. Another difference over the last four months is my children's school attendance. Having money that comes s monthly have enabled me to pay school fees on time, My children learn at school smoothly again because of these.
Do you have any new or additional goals for your life for the next four months?
I plan to build rental houses in a plot that I recently bought. I am glad that this cash will assist me in buying construction materials.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer.
During school holidays, my daily household expenditures shoot up. This is because my children are at home and are hyper especially because December is a festive season. Expenditure usually drains my finances but this was different this year because I used the money to buy foodstuffs that took us through the last four months. Without GIvedIreclty transfers, I would have to suffer in the month of January through to march because the repercussions of spending that happen during festivities. I thank GiveDirectly because the cash I get has cushioned and my family through these months of scarcity in food.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
In the next six months, I will have improved my living standards because I will have extra income from the rental house that I am going to build. I will have completed the house construction.
 
8th Payment
Transfer Amount
2280 KES ($22 USD)
access_time almost 6 years ago
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How is your life currently different from how it was four months ago?
Going back to the past four months, my budget towards plans was always hanging since I was always running short of resources compared to my life currently where every plan comes out successfully.
Do you have any new or additional goals for your life for the next four months?
I have a new project in my piece of land which i bought five years ago. I would like to start construction of my nnew household so that I may start a family.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer.
The biggest difference in my life is the drastic reduction of budget since it gave men an alternative means of sorting my bills.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
I expect to have built on savings to ensure that I will be financially stable in the next six months which would help me a great deal in school fees payment since I would be having a child in school at then.
 
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
455 KES ($5 USD)
access_time over 6 years ago
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Do you have any new goals that you didn't have before receiving the transfer?
My new plan is to buy a land and develop it.
How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I am now confident that I will get transfers and I will be able to drive my plans well.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
In the next six months my life would have improved and I would have purchased a piece of land.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The biggest difference in my life is that GD transfer I received boosted my plan of buying a land. I topped up what I had and paid for the land and I am always happy about it.
 
Enrolled
access_time over 6 years ago
 
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The hardest hardship I have ever faced in my life happened November the year 2017, this is when I bought a machine used in carpentry process the owner of the machine was a conman and I ended up losing around ksh.300,000. This made me go at a loss because I had used all my savings to purchase the machine hence I was forced to cut other family expenses due to lack of finances.
What is the happiest part of your day?
My happiest part of the day is in the evening after I have accomplished my daily activities and I have earned a living. This makes me feel happy since I'm sure my family will get their daily needs.
What are you planning to spend your transfer on?
Construction operator
What is the achievement you are proudest of?
My greatest achievement in life is when I bought a peace of land and I managed to construct a self contained house. I feel proud of myself since it has always been my greatest dream to own land and a house.