My life is different from how it was before GiveDirectly came into my life in that, I can now take care of my needs easily without taking loans unlike before. I could also stay without paying rent at times because of lack of money but this is now a forgotten story. Once I boosted my business using my third transfers,I have been able to handle all my expenses with ease. Thanks to GiveDirectly for giving me the means to improve my living standards.

My new goal is to start another business. I was once employed to sell shoes for someone and from that, I learned a few skills on how to handle the logistics. I know that it will definitely do well once I start my own. I live in is strategic and a good market place hence I believe that my target audience will be able to reach me easily. I want to work hard towards meeting this goal so that I can leave my wife to run the other one. With the diversified sources of income, I know that we will be stable financially which means our living standards will improve.

I spent part of my transfer on boosting my business. I refurbished and added a few upholstery in the business premise in order to attract customers. I also added a new stock since the business cannot stand on its own at the moment. In addition to that, I also managed to buy food for my family and kept the remaining amount as savings. Previously, I could sell clothes to supplement my income since the business could not sustain me. Once in a while, I could look for casual jobs to supplement my income too. I feel good after boosting my business since there are signs of it becoming stable. We are already getting good profits and I thank GiveDirectly because it is because of them that the business regained its momentum.

My life is very different since I started receiving my transfers. This is because initially I used to survive from hand to mouth. I had no savings and a times I was forced to go without food. But ever since I started receiving these transfers and managed to start my own business this has changed. I can now save and even settle my primary needs comfortably without having to struggle.

My goal is to expand my recently started second-hand clothes business and be able to reach a bigger number of clientele within my area of residence. This will see my profits increase and I will be able to settle my daily needs with much ease.

Upon receiving my second transfer, I started a second-hand clothes business to help me generate income. This way I will not have to engage myself with janitor jobs which were so hard to do and tiresome as well. I will be my own boss and I will dictate how much to earn depending on the effort I place in my business.

I am planning to start a second-hand clothing business to help me boost my daily income.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am clear of debts. before I received my payments from GiveDirectly, my income was so poor that I ended up accumulating debts in shops Ias I took daily supplies on credit. Most of the shops around where I live had already incurred losses as I could not pay what I owed them. I ended up borrowing more in order to pay them. This further aggravated my situation to almost hopelessness. But when the transfers came, I paid all those that I owed to people and now live freely unlike when it used to worry me because whenever I met them they would demand their money.

My wife was expectant when I received the transfer. She was a few weeks away to delivery. I spent half the amount to pay her hospital bills after the successful safe delivery and bought a few needs for the young baby boy. The remaining amount I spend on paying debts that I had accumulated trying to feed my family. I used to take foodstuffs from shops on credit and fail to repay them because I did not have a good source of income. I then saved another amount to use in starting second hands lcothing buiness.

I felt relieved. I read the message several times just to confirm my fortunes. It was a moment of joy as this meant that I would easily take my wife to a hospital. I did not know how I was going to foot the hospital bills and buy the newborn's clothes. I got an assurance that my wife would deliver well because she was going to be under the good care of a hospital as it was easy to pay the bills.