In the coming year, I hope to be able to buy a dairy cow. Having bought a piece of land and successfully built a house in it, it is now my dream to buy a dairy cow that will help me feed my family and meet other needs of my family as well. I have already saved some money amounting to $150 and my target is to reach $300 before the end of this year. Reaching this target shall mean that I will be in position to buy a good dairy cow and make more income as well through the same of milk once it starts producing some.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly does very well by by conducting their enrollment process in the most transparent way possible. Getting to see and interact with every beneficiary on a one on one basis is really a good thing about them. Every household was visited and every deserving person enrolled. Ii would say that everything we as perfectly done and nothing needs any Ii mprovement.

Being a single mother of two, I was forced to seek shelter in a borrowed house- my uncle's house. I did not find peace in this house since I would often find it under lick and key and this was locked by the same people that have me the permission to use the house. This pained me a lot and I often looked forward to the day I will get some money and be able to build one. When I received the second transfer, I used $250 to buy building materials that were then used to build my house to cmpletion. I am now very happy that I not only own a piece of land but also own a house- all courtesy of GiveDirectly transfers. I then used another $50 to seek my own medication and that of my child. The money came at a time that we had just fallen sick and we are so grateful that my child and I could get the much needed medical attention then. I gave some of the money; $120 to my brother who needed to clear some fee as well. I normally work as a house girl to make income and the money that I earned could not allow me to do the things that I did before receiving this transfer.

That early morning, I was on my way to shop to buy maize floor on credit so as to feed my youngest child when I received a message. Upon opening my messager, I found out that I had received my transfer and I was so happy that I was going to clear debt that I had in the shop and buy enough food for the family.

Previously, I was living a hopeless life because I didn't have a land where I could build a house to call home or do subsistence farming. Right now, I own a land courtesy of the transfers and I'm building a house which I'm looking forward to move in soon. I couldn't have achieve this by my own and I want to thank GiveDirectly for giving me hope.

I am a single mother of two children and I work as a domestic manager to earn living. For the longest time, I have been living in my friends' house because I don't own land and I couldn't afford to rent a house. I had promised to stay my friends' house as I plan myself and move out but things didn't work out as I had planned and this didn't settle well with my host. They have been requesting me to move out but I didn't know where to go because the KES 3,500 that I earn per day couldn't afford to provide basic necessities, pay school fees and rent a house. I became so hopeless but I saw a light at the end of the tunnel when I was enrolled in the program. I spend KES 45,000 to buy an acre piece of land and the balance to pay debts and provide for my family. I borrowed a loan where I bought building materials and the single room that I am building is already half way. I'm looking forward to repay the loan once I receive my second transfer.