Yes, My new goal is to start a grocery business once I feel well since I am currently sick. This is because I am depending on small-scale farming, a job that has not been sustaining my family due to the current climate and drought conditions. Due to this, it has caused a lot of struggle in meeting our needs, especially food, and in most cases we have been going to bed hungry.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly did well for coming into our village to enroll the poor households. In addition, the officer portrayed politeness during the enrollment. I do not see anything that it did not do well during the entire enrollment stages.

I spent the transfer to repair my house so that it may be more permanent. I bought the required building materials which include 15 bags of cement, 10 tonnes of building stone, 10 tonnes of sand at a total cost of KES 19,000. I also set aside some money for the payment of labor costs. In addition, I bought a local dairy cow for KES 18,000. I will be having a constant supply of milk for my family consumption. I also bought a water tank for KES 2000, I will be storing enough clean water for the family. Lastly, I saved the remaining amount for our daily upkeep like food and water.

When I received the money I was at the shamba looking after my goats. I remember it was around 8am and the goats were enjoying the moist grass before they turn to their poor state due to the high degrees of the sun we're experiencing nowadays. I felt so happy for receiving the money from GiveDirectly. For your I felt like I have been poured some cold water in a warm environment for I felt refresh after picturing how my problems were going to be solved.

Since my husband is very old, he can no longer work to earn us a living, instead he also depends on me. The kind of work I was surviving on was laboring in our neighbor's shambas, digging and weeding for some payments. But of late our living condition turned worse since no one needed their shambas to be worked on since there's no rain. But on receiving the transfer, it was like I found gold, I was able to plan my life without much stress as before. The house is almost complete and am sure with the second transfer I will be able to complete it. Many thanks to the GiveDirectly organization for coming through us during the time we were in need the most.

On receiving the transfer, I bought building sand and some clay blocks at a cost of KES 5000.00. The sand and the blocks were for pilar construction so as to make my house more firm. I also bought some cement and some food. I saved the rest of the money for the contractor's labour charges and also for family upkeep.