Since my children are still in lower Primary School. I have a plan of starting a business of hardware, the profits yield will be taking care of school fees and the family's upkeep like food and clothing. Currently I live in a grass thatched house which is leaking during the rainy season and most of my valuable items are destroyed during heavy rains. I have a plan of building a decent house for my family which will accommodate all of us.

In my opinion, what GiveDirectly does well in this program is that we receive the transfers in lumpsum amounts. This helps in planning as one is in a position to do something huge as compared to when the transfers are given in small instalments. Another thing that GiveDirectly does well is that the unlearned recipients are taught how to use mpesa. This has reduced the number of theft cases in the community as most of us managed to change our pins to a more secure code. To avoid household conflict, what needs to be done differently is enrolling all the individuals in the household. During enrollment, those individuals who did not have responsibilities by then were left out of the program yet these are the same people who steal from their old and vulnerable parents. Another thing that needs to be done differently is enrolling all the communities in a specific village for uniformity purposes and this will prevent too many complaints coming from the communities that are left out during the registration to the programs.

I am a parent of three boys who are still in Primary school, they are in classes two, four and five. Before the GiveDirectly transfers, I never had any stable source of income and providing for my family had been the most difficult task I have ever faced. I used the whole of transfer of kshs 53,000 to purchase a power saw for my business. Before I bought the machine I used to hire it from someone else and this was quite expensive as I remained with very little money for my family's basic needs like food, clothing and education.

It was 5 pm and we were in a funeral ceremony in the neighborhood when suddenly my phone rang notifying me of a new message. I decided to check what it was all about and I got surprised when I found out that I had received the KES 55000 that GiveDirectly had earlier promised us. I was immediately filled with so much joy but I had to wait until later when the ceremony was over before I could tell my wife what had transpired. She was so happy when she heard the good news and we thanked God for it because we now knew that the plans that we had were now going to be fulfilled.

The transfer has brought a big difference in our lives as a family. A lot of money was being needed for school fees and buying the necessary school items and we didn't have the money. As a result, we had thought of selling our cows to raise the amount. We are however glad and grateful because we did not resort to doing so. After all, the GiveDirectly transfer came in handy and we were able to send our children to school.

We spent most of our recent transfer on paying school fees for our two children both of whom are in secondary school. Our son was joining the secondary school and a lot of money was being needed for buying the essential school items and school fees for the entire academic term. We thus spent KES 20000 on shopping and KES 21000 on school fees. Other than that, we also spent about KES 9000 on paying school fees for our daughter who is in her third year of studies at secondary school, and buying her some essential school items. With the remaining transfer amount of about KES 5000, I invested it in my butchery business.