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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
25500 KES ($251 USD)
access_time 5 years ago
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Do you have any new or additional goals for your life for the next four months?
I have started saving the little money I get from my milk business. Thus my new or additional goal is to drill a borehole for easy access to water for both domestic and commercial use. I believe if this will work my children will never struggle again working for a long-distance look for water. I will also get money from selling water to my neighbors and get money to take my children to a good school.
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 economically empowered. I spent my transfer to buy a dairy cow because I had a vision that it would act as my financial security in the future.
I am very happy because it had given birth and now I have to calves. As I had made my calculations, I thank God for blessing it because I now sell milk and get daily financial income. The little money I get from the milk business I use on use buying daily foodstuffs for my family, I also save part of it in my bank account, this is for the purpose of drilling a borehole come early next to enhance easy access to water. I thought of this because as the number of cows increases then there is a need for enough water for them.
Apart from buying a dairy cow, I also build a house since this was my major priority. I am happy I stay in a spacious house with iron-roofed unlike before when I use to stay in the grass-roofed house.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
In the next six months, I expect less financial burden, this is the reason why I have invested in cattle rearing and also farming to ensure I have enough money for my family. I also want to take my children to good schools where they can get the best education.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
25500 KES ($253 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 in my daily life is that I am able to meet my family's daily food requirement.I am happy and hopeful for a better life.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
I expect my life to have changed in the next six months because I will have bought a piece of land and will have started saving money for my child's education.
How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
Currently my life is different in that my family members are happy because we have a cow and a new house.I am also actively working in the farm and this will increase my income.My wife is now hopeful about a our good future and actually believes in my vision of ensuring good education for my children.
Do you have any new goals that you didn't have before receiving the transfer?
I have new goal to buy and.I have found a half an acre of land that is on sale.I also intent to save for my children education.I will soon start a hotel business.
Enrolled
access_time over 6 years ago
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
In January 2018, I bought land and I paid half of the money and now I don't know where to get the remaining money yet again I have children who are in School and I have to pay fees. The small hotel which I run cannot sustain the needs of my family and not enough to pay the remaining money for the land. This has been the greatest hardship in my life.
What is the happiest part of your day?
The happiest part if my day is in the morning after waking up healthy and ready to work for my family.
What are you planning to spend your transfer on?
I am planning to spend my transfer to build a new house where my children will sleep. They normally sleep in the kitchen and my wish is to build for them their own house.
What is the achievement you are proudest of?
My proudest achievement is that I have managed to plant tea. I managed to plant tea through savings from my casual work and a small hotel which I operate in the nearby centre.
