My new goal if I was to get money, is to buy more land. I would like to do so because I live on a small piece of land, that is, three points of an acre, and hence it is not enough to practice agricultural activities such as rearing a cow. Getting more land will enable me to rear my cows comfortably.

GiveDirectly helped us a lot. Our living standards were uplifted and we are no longer like before. I also liked how they were concerned when they were doing the enrollment. They kept on asking if there was any household that had been left out. They wanted to make sure that everyone has been enrolled fairly. I thus do not see anything wrong that I would recommend them to change.

I had saved the whole of my first transfer so that I could combine it with the recent transfer. I decided to do so so that it could be enough to build another house. I have been living with my family in a small grass-thatched house which was not even enough to welcome guests visiting our household. It has thus been my wish to build them another bigger house but due to financial constraints, I was not able to. I usually do the business of buying and selling cows to earn a living. The money that I get, most of it usually goes to school fees payments for the children, buying food and clothes for them. Other than that, I also took KES 20000 from the transfer and I used it in buying another cow. I decided to buy the cow to add to the one I have so that when one cow is dry, we can still have another one supplying us with milk. This way we won't lack milk for consumption. We also usually sell some of the milk especially when the cow has calved. The money that we get from the sales usually helps us in purchasing some essential household items. I am thus happy that I have managed to build another iron-roofed house that is made of timber planks on the walls and I have gotten another cow. Thank you so much GoveDirectly for your big help.

The moment I received my transfer, I knew that I will be able to accomplish the goals that I had, it was around 11 pm we were already asleep, when I heard my phone ringing, upon checking I saw a Mpesa notification showing that I had received money from GIveDirectly, I immediately woke up my wife, I then broke the good news to her which she was equally happy. we are grateful for the transfer that brought so much happiness to our family.

I am now relieved and happy that I was able to secure back the family land which had been sold initially due to lack of finances, My siblings needed school fees yet we had nowhere to run to, thus we were forced to release the family land because this was the only way we would raise money faster. I am glad that I was able to save our land, with this we will have a spacious place to look after our cow, I am grateful for the transfer that came as a blessing in my life.

School fees have been our major worry in our family, my younger siblings are still schooling, at some point, we had to sell part of our family land for us to pay the school fees arrears. when I received my transfer I thought of rebuying back the family land, therefore used KES 37,000 in purchasing that parcel of land. I then top up my business with a capital of KES 15,000, I then used the remaining amount in buying foodstuffs.