My goal in the next four months is to start a restaurant business in a nearby market. I will spend the money on buying wood that will be used to make chairs and tables. I have already accumulated enough money for this project. I don't intend to start big, I know it will grow with time. I only have to start with whatever I have and work hard to ensure that I managed it to the level I want it to be in the next few years.

The biggest difference in my daily life is freedom from debts. I have cleared school fees for my children just like the rest of the kids in the village. I was always under stress because I have two children in secondary and a few others in primary school. I used to rely on menial jobs sometimes both day and night as a night guard in residential houses yet I could not raise enough to settle these expenses. These transfers have enabled me to manage this issue and I always feel good seeing my children attending school just like the other kids.

I believe that in the next six months we will have harvested maize and beans. I know I will get a bumper harvest because I upgraded my farming methods this season. I believe I will get enough sacks that will sustain us up to the next harvesting season. I will also have sold the extra maize and beans to get income that will help me to establish and strengthen my business. It will also help me boost the restaurant that I started recently.

In comparison with the last four months, my life currently has really changed. The money which we have been receiving every month from GiveDirectly has brought a lot of impact in both my life and the lives of all my family members. My wife is also a recipient; something which has boosted our togetherness in the household. Nowadays we can come together to plan a common goal. Her money has been majorly going towards school fees payment while mine have been going to the Mshwari savings plan and the remaining amount in buying foodstuff for the household. All these were not happening in the past four months a reason to thank God now for giving GiveDirectly a generous heart to help us.

As we draw towards the end of our receiving period, it has been my prayer that I start something which will still sustain me after the end of the transfers. I started a savings plan where I have been putting aside 1500 KES every month out of the total money I have been receiving. The plan is to finally establish a small business. Initially, I had a scrap metal business where I was collecting over the village and selling to a common collection center in the nearby shopping center. I would wish to restart the same business since it was really profitable baring in mind that the products were readily available and at a cheaper cost. In the next four months, I am hopeful that I will have started it since my savings have grown to an appreciable amount at the moment.

Before receiving the money from GiveDirectly, we had great difficulty in paying school fees for my children in school. At then, I had a son in secondary school and the other four children in primary school. I had to toil every day in the casual labor and later on my farm to try and make the ends meet. When GiveDirectly came in, I was lucky to be enrolled together with my wife whom we are now receiving a monthly transfer of 2280 KES. Our second born child joined the secondary school and we are grateful that we have been able to combine what we receive and use in clearing their school fees. Seeing my children settle in school over this time and ability to clear the school fees is indeed the biggest difference in my daily life in the past four months.

My father was blessed with a large piece of land. After subdividing it amongst seven sons, every one of us got at least five acres. This piece of land for our family is big enough for our household to do several farm operations. We have been farming on the three acres and the remaining have been under livestock farming. In the next six months, I have a plan to purchase at least two heifers which I will then raise to be big enough then sell in aid of school fees. Investment on livestock is an easy one and I am hopeful that by the time I will be selling I will be able to register a good profit margin.

My home Improvement is one of the differences that these transfers have caused in the last four months. I have bought timber that I will soon use to construct a house. My family has become large because my children have grown up and are in secondary school. I want to build a house that can accommodate and give them a room where they can make their daily evening studies. This will allow them to concentrate on their studies and perform better. I am happy that I have begun the process of preparing them for a better future by giving them room. This has only become possible because of the transfers I get form GIveDirectly.

I have a plan to build a shop in my compound. This is because the nearest shopping center is about 2 Kilometers away. Building and opening a shop will be an income generating activity.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that my children are learning properly just like the other people's children. It was always a problem to pay school fees on time because I get very little from the caul jobs I do. When I started receiving these transfers, being sent home has ceased. I used the transfers to pay their school fees which ha snow guaranteed them ample time at school.

I expect to have completed my home improvement. I will have completed the construction of a house for my children. They will be using their own room in the next six months.

My life currently different since I have Improved my house using GD transfers.

My new goal is to start a small business (shop).

The biggest difference in my daily life is that GD transfers have helped me equip my house by buying furniture and embark on farming (buying farm inputs for example seeds and fertilizers).

In the next six months I will have constructed a business premise ready to start a business.

The new goal that i have now is to set up a kiosk in my piece of land along the road, I also want to start saving which I will use to buy livestock now that I can get some money to save unlike before where I could spend all what I could earn mainly on fee.

My life is currently different in that am somehow relieved of my duties, I can also meet other family needs unlike before where I had to only I could spent much of my income on fee only.This has given me hope in life and now my family and I are now happier than before.

I am expect my life to change in that in the next six months I should have livestock, be doing better farming in my piece of land since I will afford all the better farming material. I will be expecting higher return from my piece of land due to better ways of cultivating the it hence will have a better living standard.

The biggest difference in my life is that I now have hope that I will also be able to meet my daily needs and basic needs for my family.I now feel uplifted like other able members of the community.My secondary school children have a happier life than before since they can get fee through give directly transfer.