I am a carpenter by profession. I am planning to expand my business of carpentry so as to cater for my young children who are still in Primary school. I will be doing this by taking a loan from the Sacco which I will be paying monthly from the profits collected. In addition, I will be doing subsistence farming to help boost my stock of carpentry.

I am a carpenter by profession. I am planning to expand my business of carpentry so as to cater for my young children who are still in Primary school. I will be doing this by taking a loan from the Sacco which I will be paying monthly from the profits collected. In addition, I will be doing subsistence farming to help boost my stock of carpentry.

I am a parent of three boys who are still in Primary school, they are in classes two, four and five. Before the GiveDirectly transfers, I never had any stable source of income and providing for my family had been the most difficult task I have ever faced. I used part of the transfers of kshs 30,000 to build an extension to my house as the one I had was small in size and could not accommodate our farm produce. Before the transfers, thieves could take advantage of this and most of the farm produce was stolen during the night as I could hide them behind our main house. I used the rest of the transfers of kshs 20,000 to buy more stock for my business of second-hand clothes. While the rest of the transfers of kshs 3,150 catered for basic needs like food and clothing. I thank GiveDirectly for the transfers.

I was on my way home when my wife called and inquired whether I had received the transfer from GiveDirectly since other people in the village had received theirs. When I checked my phone, I became so happy when I read the Mpesa message and immediately called her back and shared the good news with her. This money gave me hope that I would soon achieve our goals as a family.

I usually make my cows sleep in one section of the store due to increased cases of livestock theft and to protect them from people who normally practice witchcraft since the number of livestock that has been dying due to witchcraft has increased in my region. The store that I had was small and it was usually very hot due to congestion. With the transfer, I was able to build a bigger one though I have not completed building it, I am glad that I have seen some changes. I have five cows and two are lactating and from them, I have noticed an increase of four liters of milk daily which is equivalent to an increase of KES 150 in my daily income from milk sales. With this, I have been able to meet our basic needs on time.

I am a house painter and decorator and I usually move from one town or school to another looking for some work. I have five children and since they are all still at the primary level, it has always been my dream to improve my crop and livestock farming practices so that I can be able to depend on this project in paying for their school fees. I was in the process of acquiring some building materials to use in constructing a bigger store for my family when I received the transfer. A section of this store is where my livestock sleeps due to security reasons and it had become smaller over time since I built it when I had two cows but I currently have five. The temperatures in this room had gone high and this had led to a reduction in milk production. I am glad that my transfers came in handy as I was able to spend the all amount to expand it. I am happy that very soon, I will have a bigger space to store animal feeds that will be useful to me during the dry season.