After using the second transfer, I haven’t set any goal yet because I usually plan after getting some cash. This is because planning without cash at hand gives me unnecessary stress. But once I get some money I will not miss out a concrete goal since I have so many ideas and its just a matter of sitting down and refine them.

GiveDirectly is an organization that raised me from nowhere to somewhere. Initially I had no source of income but through GiveDirectly I used the first transfer they sent me to buy a motorbike. As at now the motorbike is serving as my source of income. In my opinion this is an organization that needs to be embraced in the society and given full cooperation as it performs its duties.

Upon withdrawing the money, I sat down with my plan which I had already set. The first thing I did is paying school fees for my six children. I paid KES 20000.00 to two of them who are in secondary school and KES 4000.00 to the remaining four who are in primary school. Thereafter, I bought three goats at KES 4500 each. Since it was a dry season, there was a hardship in sourcing for water and food thus I opted to used the remaining amount for the family upkeep.

I learned that I had received the Mpesa message from GiveDirectly at around 8 in the morning when I was doing laundry. I had woken up with si much stress that morning since I had nothing to put on the table. I was so low, however, after confirming that it was aN Mpesa message from GvedDirectly that I had anxiously been waiting for, it changed my mood. I was the happiest person on earth and without wasting time, I had to inform all my family members about the good news. We started celebrating joyfully knowing that at least we will no longer starve as before.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that through the transfers I was able to buy a second-hand motorbike. This is because we have been relying on casual jobs for the family's upkeep. My spouse and I have been depending on buying and selling charcoal which has not been a seasonal business. With a family of eleven members, raising them has been a major challenge and we had no asset to at least rely on. Some days we could starve because and my children could be sent home for fees and they could stay for weeks and this used to stress me a lot. This issue was frustrating me as a parent and I had to think of a permanent solution on the same. I am glad that for now, we have enough food on the table, paying school fees has never been a challenge to us well. All I can say is that half o of our problems are now sorted courtesy of GiveDirectly.

I spent part of my first transfer on buying a second-hand motorbike at KES 35000. Thus has been my desire to own it but becasue of the financial difficulties that I was experiencing this was not achievable. I settled for it because it would not only be for business purposes but also, it will be of great help in transporting water from the dams which are far always from the villages. I have been using my own hand to carry the jerricans which were tiring and I am glad that I am relieved. I also paid school fees of KES 15000 for my two children who are in secondary schools. This is a motivation to them because they are no longer being sent home regularly as they used to do. With the remaining amount of money, I bought enough foodtuffs for my family that would sustain us for a couple of days.