I had two goals this year; to buy a posho mill machine and an acres pieces of land. I am planning to spend the profit that I earn from farming and selling potatoes towards this projects. Achieving this mean expansion of my business and by the time I will be settling down with my family, I will be financially independent and I will be able to give my family a quality life.

What GiveDirectly does well is enrolling everyone in the village regardless of their social class as long as they quality the criteria. The thought of saturation was a good idea to avoid conflict in the village. Giving people the same amount has also worked best again community conflict.

Before I was enrolled into the program, I used to farm potatoes on a quarter acre piece of land that I inherited from my father. After harvest and selling, I used to earn a profit of $100. Although I have always wanted to practice farming on a larger pieces of land, I couldn't afford to hire. Being enrolled into the program was such a good opportunity for me to buy my own piece of land and when I received my first transfer, I saved the whole amount so that I could combine with the second transfer to buy an acre piece of land that was going for $1150. Therefore, I combined both my first and second transfer to buy a piece of land. The last rainy season, I planted some potatoes and got a good harvest which I sold for $400. In six months time, I will be able to buy another acre piece of land and expand my farming business.

It was a few minutes past 6 pm and I was planning to go and start milking my dairy cow when I heard my phone vibrate an indication that I had received an SMS. My heart was filled with joy on reading its content and I knew that I would finally fulfill my dreams. I then gave thanks to God through songs for what He had done for us through GD.

I am foreseeing a big change in my life in the coming days. This is because I am almost achieving my goal of planting potatoes for commercial purposes. I have already leased a piece of land and I will be planting them very soon. After harvest, I will save the profits and use the capital to continue with the farming activity. I will invest these profits after some time in a posho mill business so that I can diversify my sources of income and enjoy GiveDirectlys fruits for a long time.

I am a farmer dealing mainly with maize farming and livestock keeping for survival. It has always always been my dream to venture into potatoes farming as it is more lucrative but I had not been able to due to insufficient funds since will have to lease land in a place with favorable weather conditions. When I received my transfer, I spent KES to rent a piece of land in Nakuru county with the help of my relative and I am planning to plant potatoes for commercial purposes. I still have KES 30000 that I am planning to use for land preparation purposes and to buy seeds and fertilizers. I used the remaining KES 4700 on food and other household necessities.