Receiving these transfers to have greatly changed my life, through financial support that I received, I was able to venture into my dream opportunity, a cosmetics shop, which I always get a good income from it, as well as vending fruits in town, which on a day I take home KSH 400 profit. I do save this money for the purpose of expanding my business for better income.

I currently run two businesses in town, I opened a cosmetic shop and also vending fruits in town. My new goal is to ensure that I do uplift these two businesses to greater heights for better income in the future for their demand is high.

I spent a larger portion of my most recent transfer to open a cosmetics shop and also ventured into fruits vending. I am running these two projects concurrently. So far, these are the only sources of income that I boast of having which I did not have before GiveDirectly came to us. I spent the remaining portion of the money to clear my house rent and cater for the needs of my household like food and clothing for my children.

My life is much better at the moment. After using the transfers to expand my business. I get more proceeds from my business. This has enabled me to meet my family's needs much easier. Before I used to do menial jobs that brought little income. This income was too little that meeting my needs was hard. I now have extra Income that I save and I am even planning to take my children to a better school.

I am planning to build a new house in my rural home. Earlier on before the transfer, I could not be able to raise such a big amount to enable me to build a new house. I could rely on menials jobs whose income only catered for our family's needs.

I spent this months transfer on paying school of KES 3000 and the remaining KES 3000 went to expanding my business. I have saved KES 28000 that as soon as I am ready I will use to build my own house. I then used KES 2000 to shop for food items and other hosyuehold items in my house.

There is a very prime vacant shop near my grocery shop which I plan to rent when I receive the next transfers. I will use it for a bookshop/a cosmetic shop which I will employ someone to manage while I run my grocery business.

Selling just a few items did not give me much profits which made it a struggle taking care of my personal and family needs. Since I enlarged the business, I have been making much more money and I can provide for my family with ease and even have good money left to save.

For a long time, I have been selling just three items in my grocery shop which did not give much profits. I decided to use part of the money I received to expand the business by adding more items such as fruits a variety of vegetables that I did not have before. I also used some of it to clear a loan I had borrowed from my table -banking group to avoid accumulation of interest. A bit of the money was spent on foodstuff and the rest saved for future use.

All the while I was interacting with GD staff, I had no faith in whatever they said, this is because of the previous disappointments I have had with other organizations. The moment I received the money, I was actually shocked to know that it was all real. I had to call a few other group members to confirm if they had received the money just to be sure.