All I would want to do is continue to expand my family. I fully understand how my business's current growth will lead to a brighter future for all of us. I am striving to ensure I can get to the point where I am making enough money to support my family financially without worrying.

GiveDirectly excelled at creating opportunities for my husband and me. Because of GiveDirectly, I was able to purchase a sewing machine and can now supplement my husband's efforts. He was the sole breadwinner, and now I can help him with things. Our feelings of pride and gratitude are inexplicable. We ask that they continue to bless others while also being blessed. Thank you very much, GiveDirectly.

GiveDirectly transfers enabled me to expand my business. I do hem work, and the money enabled me to purchase a sewing machine. I charge $20 per item to sew for people. That could be an outfit or a top and bottom combination. My company is located at Mariani Center, and my husband owns a boda boda within the same complex. He earns between $4 and $5 per day, leaving us with little to save. The funds enabled me to further pursue my farming passion, particularly as a livestock farmer. I purchased two female goats, which now live with us on our 2-acre farm. The food we grow, maize, is primarily for human consumption and provides little to no financial benefit. The transfers are no doubt assisted us in covering expenses such as tuition fees for our two children attending Mariani School, both in Grade 1 @and PP1, for whom tuition is $5 and $12, respectively. GiveDirectly has been a tremendous blessing to me and my family, and we will never forget it.

It was around 8 am while on my way to look for casual labor when I received a message on my phone. Upon checking, I was shocked to see a huge amount of money that had been sent to me, I scrolled down the message and remembered that we had been promised by GiveDirectly. My heart was filled with happiness and I got energized to go and search for more jobs to do so that I could add whatever I get to the amount I had received.

Before GiveDirectly graced my life, my children were a laughing stock at school due to the kind of uniform they were wearing. They were torn and ragged-like and this state did not give me peace of mind. The fact that my children did not have a place to sleep was also giving me sleepless nights. Thank you to GiveDirectly. The transfer I received changed the lives of my children and we are all comfortable. I managed to buy them school uniforms and build a house for them. As of now, they are comfortable living in their own house not like before.

Being a father of 6 children in primary school, the first thing I did after withdrawing the money was to buy school uniforms for them all. This is because they had been going to school with torn uniforms because whatever I get from my daily jobs was insufficient, thus prioritizing fees and food. Thereafter, I constructed a house for them because the one I had was too small to accommodate us. This resulted in some of them sleeping at their friends’ residences; something that was not giving me peace of mind. For the remaining amount from the construction, I bought some food for the family.