I would like to start a secondhand business and employ someone while I continue with my teaching job. If I can save $200 in 2023, I would start the business and this would help out whenever I need to buy my monthly medicine.

GiveDirectly visiting us at our home with the scorching sun shows that they care about us. Calling for meetings and educating us on how well we can use the money and lastly sending us money directly to our account shows that the organization thought of a well-planned idea. I am grateful.

I work as a teacher in the village. When I started my career I had just graduated with a certificate in teaching. After a few years, I saved some money and enrolled in a school for my Diploma. Things were great until I was diagnosed with cervical cancer. During GiveDirectly enrollment I was sick I could not walk and I was enrolled in bed. I remember that day clearly. During that time I could not afford to buy medicine nor go for follow-up checkups this had deteriorated my health. I was vomiting, and I had lost so much weight that I thought I would die. Then I received this money and checked into the hospital and after a while, I got better and went back home. I used the first transfer of $530 for medical purposes. With the second transfer, I used to repay some loans that had accumulated while in the hospital and paid school fees. After a while, I got back to work and with my salary, I am trying my best to ration it to take care of everyone in the family.

GD-2050992 I was at home in the morning as I finished brushing my teeth and walked to where I had left my phone the night before. Immediately I had a message tone and I read the message. I was in tears of joy because it was a miracle for me to have received the cash transfer. I was excited to share the news with my husband and children.it was a day that I will never forget.

My biggest challenge is my health status, which limits me from working, and being married to a polygamous man has not been easy in terms of financial provision. I was worried that my son, who was a candidate, would have to wait for his elder brother to complete high school in order for him to join. The difference is that I find it hard to believe that both of them are in school for the rest of the term. I hope the funds will buy me more time to recover from my operation and resume back to my duty as an ECDE teacher.

I had my uterus removed through an operation late last year. I have been having frequent checkups and tests done on a weekly basis. The clinic is quite a distance because I am using my husband’s health insurance coverage. My husband, who is a teacher, is polygamous and has been struggling to support two families. He hardly has enough to take home as his salary is deducted from the loans he has taken the past years. I spent KES 2000 on transport to and from the clinic and bought food for KES 2000 for my family of eight children. The remaining KES 50,000 was spent on my two children who are in secondary school. One of them was joining the secondary school, and the other is in form 2.