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Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
55000 KES ($471 USD)
access_time over 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
It was around 8 am while returning from feeding my dairy cows that's when I checked my phone. On checking my phone, I received KES 55,000 from GiveDirectly. I was very happy and my husband who had first doubted this confirmed that indeed I had received the money.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The biggest difference in my daily life since I started receiving the transfers is the purchase of a chaff cutter. This has enabled me to cut three days of livestock feeds in a day. Unlike before when I strained to manually cut days' livestock feeds. As a result, there is increased milk production and I am grateful.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I am a mother of three and a small-scale dairy farmer. I am currently focused on dairy farming because there's high demand for milk in our locality now that there's a milk factory. My husband also works as a high school teacher and his income is majorly used on school fees payment.
When I received the transfers, I spent KES 37,000 on a chaff cutter. This has eased the process of cutting livestock feeds like nappier grass and sugarcane. As a result, I am now relieved of the heavy work of manually cutting the livestock feeds which had even affected my health.
Secondly, I spent KES 15,000 on a Friesian heifer breed. This is because I had only one dairy cow and this will help increase milk production once it reproduces.
For the rest, I spent KES 1,400 on half a bag of maize and KES 1,800 on my kid's school bags.
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access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
I have a young family of three children who are in primary schools. My biggest ambition is to see them have good health and education to help them in their future. I have been struggling to put up a better-mixed farming project to improve our food security and increase our income through sales of surplus produce. I own two cows and I have been planning to add more but the overwhelming family needs have not allowed me. To me, this cash means higher milk production and added assets in my farm. I intended to use KES 40000 to buy a dairy cow. I am certain this will improve milk sales from my farm and will be getting enough for consumption. More liters of milk means notorious food, higher income and the calves are our financial security. Having a higher number of livestock will ensure education for my children since I will be selling them to facilitate this.
What is the happiest part of your day?
Soon after I graduated, I engaged in business to help meet the needs of my family. It was doing well and out of it, I was able to buy a piece of land where I established my home. I have always worked hard to expand this business to increase profits. In the last six months, I bought a plot along the highway. This has been my greatest joy knowing that I will soon have my business in my plot. I will cut down the cost thus increasing my profits.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Financial instability is my major challenge. Luckily, my husband and I are trained teachers. I have not gotten a job while my husband has been been working for three years far away from home. I was happy when he got appointed but the journey of relocating has not been easy. He spent much of my capital and savings to establish himself at the workplace. This needed huge financial capacity to set up. To date, I have not gotten back to a better financial level.
