My dream would be to start a business that would help me to boost my finances and also to build a kitchen house. I don't have cash at hand at the moment, but I am trusting God for an intervention and a way out. Above all, I am grateful for the ones that I have been able to achieve so far.

The support from GiveDirectly uplifted our lives to a greater milestone. Receiving unconditional and non-refundable money from the organisation was a gesture that many of us will live to remember. We are among the lucky few communities that have been empowered, thus we are indebted to the organization. In my opinion, the organization does fantastic work, hence I did not identify any areas that needed to be corrected.

Receiving financial aid from GiveDirectly has been of great impact on our lives. I never thought that I would have achieved a lot within a short period because of our financial status. I am a consistent farmer and my husband works as a shepherd. Together, we have a child. When I received my transfer, I thought of purchasing a dairy cow to reduce the cost of buying milk daily, which was extremely expensive because of our little income. Therefore, my husband and I bought two dairy cows worth $340. Additionally, I bought a table and a seat worth $51. Finally, I stocked enough foodstuffs in the house. Words can not express the immense gratitude that I have for receiving the transfer. My life has changed amazingly, hence I am grateful to God and the organization.

I felt so happy the moment I received money from GiveDirectly. I was at home when I received the money and it was around 8:15 pm. I shared the good news with my husband who equally felt very happy and grateful to have received the money. We were so elated that we were finally going to be able to accomplish things that we had only wished we could in the past. The good thing was that we already had plans in place and it was quite easy to execute the plans.

The biggest difference in my daily life is the poverty reduction in my household. The money came to save us from the yoke of poverty that we were in. We had no one to run to to help us since we lost our parents and we just had ourselves to take care of each other. I feel so much relieved having bought a dairy cow and goats to keep and this has made my family very happy. With these and the much more that we are going to do with the second transfer, we look forward to making our lives better.

We used KES 40000 to buy a dairy cow and goats and we used the remaining amount of money to buy furniture and other basic household needs for our family. We made a decision to buy a dairy cow since we did not have one and we had already felt the heat of having to use a lot of money to purchase milk. We thought investing in livestock too would be a wise idea since a part from providing milk, they woukd multiply and enable us as a family to meet any emergency needs in future. I am a small scale farmer while my husband works as a herdsman for a certain farmer and it is for this reason that we had been unable to accomplish the things we did. The income that we get is barely enough to buy food and clothes for our child. We had fought tooth and nail and we're able to build a better house.