My biggest dream is to expand my business. The main goal of this is to make more money and ensure my kids have a better and more comfortable life as a result. With them having finished their education and me offering them opportunities with the extra income, their futures will be guaranteed.

GiveDirectly has allowed us to do so much. They excel at empowering and impacting people's lives positively. The lives of our villagers and mine as well have been blessed by them, and I pray they continue to do so for countless others.

I used the funds from GiveDirectly to expand my business right away. In the neighborhood, I own a hotel that specializes in regional cuisine. Items on my menu include maize and beans, rice, and beef. The shop rent is $25 per month, so I went ahead and used the money to plan ahead of time. The hotel is in Sigor Town, and it is doing well there. I make a daily profit of $20 from the business and pay $2 to each of my three employees. We are open at 0800 hours and close at 0730 hours. I then purchased a 5000-liter tank. My husband works as a school bus driver at Sigor Primary School and is barely scraping by. As a result, I decided to pay our children's school fees, stock up on food, and save some. Our eldest child is a criminology student at Rift Valley College in Eldoret, and our other two have graduated from high school. We pay $80 per semester for college, and I made certain that we paid ahead of time. GiveDirectly has been a blessing to us in ways we cannot even begin to explain.

I felt so happy the moment I received money from GiveDirectly. It was late in the evening around 6:00 pm and I was just about to close my hotel after a hard day's work. Some of my clients normally take food from my restaurant such that they pay later at the end of the day. I was harmonizing all the sales made and checking money sent from MPESA by those very clients within the day. I was met with a pleasant surprise from GiveDirectly confirming that I had received a sum of KES 55000 from Segovia technology. There would not have been a better way to end my day than the way I did. I went home feeling very happy and proud at the same time. I later made various investments including improving my business and clearing school fees for my children.

The biggest difference in my daily life is in the business that I now run successfully. When I received money from GiveDirectly, I invested KES 20000 in my local restaurant business. This business is doing me very well lately. Profit margins have increased from the then KES 500 per day to now KES 1500 per day. To his has helped me a great deal especially during this time where the cost of living by has really risen. I will forever remain indebted to GiveDirectly for the timely support received.

I used KES 10000 to pay school fees for my child who just started his secondary school studies in a local day school. I invested another KES 20000 to improve my restaurant business and used the remaining to buy food and make some improvements in our house. I had managed to buy a water tank but the water tank had stayed without collecting water for almost two months since I did not have enough money to put up some around the house. GiveDirectly transfers helped me to achieve this dream and in the next couple of days I will be able to collect clean drinking water for my family and I. All these investments will help me towards being more independent financially and be in a position to help my husband in running out family affairs with my husband who works as a driver. The ultimate goal is to see our three children have better living standards now and in future.