My new goal is to expand the chicken house and to place a wire mesh around the chicken house so that the chickens can be well looked after and will be free from being attacked by their predators. I want to expand the chicken house so that I can increase the number of chickens that I am rearing and also so that the chicks will have somewhere that they can be alone, away from the big chickens. I have a few chickens that I am rearing and I have seen how beneficial they are. I usually sell the eggs at KES 400 per tray. The money that I get from the sales, has been helping me in buying chicken feeds and vaccinating them. I also usually use part of it in buying the small essential household goods such as sugar, soap, etc. So with the increase in the number of chickens that I will rear, I will be able to get more income that will enable me make other developments.

GiveDirectly is very transparent in their dealings, they do not need to be bribed so that they can enroll anyone into their program. They are also not biased, they enrolled everyone that belonged to the village. I hence do not see anything wrong with how they conducted their work.

I spent the entire recent transfer on expanding my businesses. I have a shop and mobile money business. I spent KES 20000 on buying more stock for the shop business. The other KES 30000, I invested in my mobile money business. I decided to do so so that my businesses could grow and I will be able to get more income and save. The money from the savings is what I plan to use in making other developments such as expanding my poultry unit and buying more chickens. I am yet to start a family of my own and I would like when this happens, I will be stable financially. I am hence grateful to GiveDirectly for their support.

I was heading to bed after having a hard day a work moving from one village to another and from one client to another when I received a message notification on my phone. I wanted to assume it at first but after receiving a subsequent SMS, I became curious to know who would be texting me at that time. I became so happy on realizing that one of the messages was from Mpesa indicating that the promised funds had finally been deposited into my account. I felt re-energized and slept like a baby on that day knowing very well that I would finally fulfill my heart's desires.

I work as a marketing officer in Imarisha Sacco and I was planning to take a loan that I would use to boost my business so that it would be deducted from my salary. This is because my retail shop business had gone down since I had started spending money meant for restocking it to sort out personal issues. With the transfer, I was able to restock it and my daily profits have increased unlike before. This is because I now have more customers who are sure that they will get all items they need for themselves when they visit my shop.

Buying milk has been my routine and as a way of cutting down my daily expenses, I decided to buy a heifer worth KES 18000. I will not only be able to save the money that I would otherwise use in buying milk when it reproduces but I will also earn some money through the sale of surplus. I have a retail shop in our neighborhood and my sister usually helps me in selling it while I go to work since I work as a marketing officer in Imarisha Sacco. The business had started going down since I did not have most of the items that people needed and customers had started going to a place where they would get most of the items they need. With the transfer, I was able to spend KES 30000 to restock it and I am glad that it has started picking up again. Using the remaining KES 15000, I spent it to service the motorcycle that I usually use when going to work and also bought some foodstuffs.