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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
53150 KES ($443 USD)
access_time 2 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
The receipt of my second transfer marked the accomplishment of many projects I had begun after receiving the first transfer. At the moment, I don't have any new goals since I am still working on the already established projects.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly did a great job in our village, and no one has ever complained after. I was pleased by the contact of the field officers, who were willing to give us all the information we needed to know in a language that we understood better. We have no complaints at all but are thankful for all the support.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
After constructing a new house with the first transfer, I also left to make the interior furnishing, buy a new piece of furniture, and all other household goods that were missing with the second transfer. I spent KES 5000 on two mattresses, one for my children and the other one that I am currently using, bought some kitchenware at KES 2500, and a piece of furniture worth KES 3000. In addition, I bought a sheep worth KES 5000 to add to the pre-existing flock. Investing in livestock is a long-term project I hope will boost school fees payment for my four children in the future. I gave the remaining amount to my husband, who is currently looking for a lactating breed of cow. We already have one buy has been producing an inconsiderable amount of milk that forces us to buy more for our household use. I am grateful for all the support from GiveDirectly and the steps we have taken in transforming our living standards.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
55000 KES ($484 USD)
access_time almost 3 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I revceived the money at around 11:0pm when I was just about to retire to bed. The first person that I informed was my husband who was with me then and he was equally full of joy on learning that we had received money from GiveDirectly. We took time to internalize athat we had indeed received such huge amount of money from GiveDirectly as we brainstormed on how we were going to spend the money.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The biggest difference in our daily lives brought about by these transfers is that we are now living a much more happy life than we were living before. We have new household furniture-some of which we have rf fb never had in our lifetime like a bed and we have stocked food something that has left us relaxed and stop worrying about whether we will be able to get food for the next day. My children got an opportunity to be bought ne clothes something that has not happened for quite sometime. We are just happy as a family and we really thank God for this.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
We spent KES 6000 to buy household furniture for our family. These included chairs, beds and a table for our home.This is something we had always desired to have as a family but we could not do it with the nature of work that we did to earn a living-that of casual labour and farming. The income received from these jobs was just enough to buy food for our family of 4 children. The other amount of KES 20000 was used to improve our home by erecting a ceiling. The ceiling has made our house look more homely and warm as well. We used another KES 6000 to buy goats for keeping in our compound. This is an investment that we thought will help us going forward even in giving our children an opportunity to study well in school without them being sent home for school fee. My children could not be left out as we used the amount that remained from these to buy new clothes and food that would take us a couple of days without struggling to make some income. The money just brought total happiness in our family and I can't thank GiveDirectly enough for this.
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access_time 3 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
Receiving this money means that we will be empowered economically. It will be a major boost for our household. At the moment we depend alot on casual work which is unsustainable in the long run. As a means of wealth creation we intend to purchase 5 sheep for keeping. Sheep mature very fast and therefore within a short time they will have multiplied and ready for sale. As a result we will earn our livelihood easily. We plan to spend KES 30000 for their purchase. we also intend to use the remaining amount to buy furnitures and school uniforms for our children.
What is the happiest part of your day?
We are peasant farmers . Sometimes last month we received a heavy downpour which has helped our maize and beans to grow well. At the moment we have done second weeding and we are hopeful that we will have a bumper harvest this year. We are so elated and looking forward to harvesting enough food crops for consumption.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The greatest challenge we face at the moment is lack of enough food for consumption. It is a basic good that we struggle to buy on a daily basis, we depend on casual jobs like weeding other people farm to earn wages to be able to buy at least a kilogram of maize grain which goes at KES 100. It is quite expensive and some days when the casual works are scarce it is a problem since we sleep on porridge alone and on worse situation we sleep on an empty stomach.
