After spending all the money I had received, I am currently following up on the small business I established and the farming that needs more time than before. I don't have any new goals at the moment since all my concentration is on running projects. I am grateful to GiveDirectly for reviving my lost hope and pushing me to work even and ensure that I provide for my family.

I had a lot of hopes when I received the first transfer, and this was heightened when I received the second transfer which enabled me to complete all the projects I had enlisted. I am grateful to GiveDirectly for the unbiased support that ensured everyone rose from the poverty we were wallowing in, to the better standard of living that we are now enjoying. We were taught and given the freedom to spend on all we hoped for and in my opinion, this was the best decision by GiveDirectly. I saw no fault in the whole process but was encouraged to work hard and ensured a distinct transformation from the support I received.

I spent KES 46000 of my first transfer in a five-month in-calf dairy cow that I am looking forward to prolific productivity in the next few months. I had been spending a lot on buying milk for my family of seven which was not always available since most of the villages could not accept to give us credit whatsoever. I am happy that I now have my own that will soon relieve me from the burden of buying and can as well earn me some income from the sale of extra liters produced. I injected KES 6000 out of the remaining amount into my maize selling business which is now doing well after getting a reliable supplier who delivers the required amount to my doorstep. In addition, I spent the remaining KES 3000 buying new clothes for my children,

I was at work busy cleaning when I received a Mpesa message indicating that I had received KES 55000 from Segovia technology. I never bothered with it since I did not know which company that was and I was expecting that the money would be reversed. When I came back home in the afternoon, I heard my neighbors discussing that the transfers had been sent. I immediately knew that it was the money that I had received earlier on and the thought of it made me so happy. I informed my spouse that ours had also been sent and immediately changed my Mpesa pin so that my transfer would be safe.

We had been known by a single pair of clothes that we usually wear when going to church or other social gatherings since we did not have money to spend on clothes as we had decided to concentrate on paying school fees and putting food on the table. With the transfers, we were able to acquire some new clothes and purchased three sacks of maize. Because of this, we have clean and more decent clothes that we can always wear when going on these occasions and we also eat to our satisfaction.

I work as a casual laborer in our neighboring health center where I get paid every month while my wife runs a shop that is located in our village. We usually use our income jointly to pay school fees for the children and to meet some of our basic needs. This is usually not enough since our children are in an academy and their school fees are a bit high compared to that of public schools. When I received my transfer, our priority as a family was to have enough food to last us for some time, and because of this, we spent KES 10000 on three sacks of maize and the same amount on clothes for all my family members since we were heading towards the festive season. In addition, we used KES 15000 to pay school fees for our five children at the primary level to avoid them from being sent back home. Using the remaining KES 20000, I purchased a heifer as a way of investing this money. When it calves, my family will be able to save the money we would otherwise use in buying milk.