I hope to be able to educate all my children. Since the firstborn is in form three, I'm already planning toward his college studies. The rest who are still in primary school shall also need to proceed with their education. Education is the key that can unlock their success. By being educated, they'll also be able to develop their home. I need approximately $2000 to be able to achieve this. I hope to sell my goats after they reproduce exhaustively, then get a loan from my merry-go-round group to raise this money.

I wish to congratulate Give Directly on this project. Children in this village who had dropped out of school due to school fees arrears have gone back to school. Please extend this project so that our children can complete their studies comfortably. People who had no houses have built new and decent ones. They have also bought modern beds. All thanks to Give Directly. I pray that God shall bless you! I see nowhere to improve since you are already perfect.

I'm a village elder and as you know, my job has no salary at all. I have 5 children to take care of; 1 is in secondary school and 4 are in primary school. I was eagerly waiting for the second transfer because my firstborn child was out of school due to a school fees balance of $300. So I went straight to clear it to have my child in school like her mates. You made it much easier for me because before, I used to get money from charcoal/firewood sales which have always never been enough. We would even go for a whole day without a meal, so I needed to stock food and feel comfortable about it. So I bought 1 bag of maize worth $30 and 1 bag of beans worth $20. I also spent $80 on 2 goats which I intend to keep as they continue to reproduce, I know later I'll sell them and use the money resourcefully. I'm a member of a merry-go group where we save and later take loans, so I saved $120 with them, hoping to qualify for a loan later.

I received the funds in the evening when I was on my way home from the farm and I was so happy because I was looking forward to GiveDirectly keeping their promise and to be honest I had my doubts because I had never in my life encountered such and organization or program. This also meant that I could finally begin the projects I had in mind.

I extremely glad that I finally managed to use the transfers to send my daughter back to school because with each passing day she missed her classes unlike other students which made her sad and left me helpless and devastated. Therefore I am quite glad that I managed to settle her fees and not forgetting that I finally got the chance to grow my farm by buying farm animals.

I immediately withdrew the transfers and ensured that I paid tuition fees for my daughter because she has been out of school for over three days due to a debt in tuition fee that I was yet to settle, so I ended up KES 15,000 so that she could finally resume classes. Afterwards I went ahead and used KES 11,200 and purchased three goats because I had always intended to grow my farm and get more farm animals. I also bought a water tank of ten thousand litres and deposited KES 8,000 as an initial payment because water was scarce so I wanted to pump water and begin selling it back in the village. As for what I was left with I paid KES 50 per day for over forty days because I was paying for solar panel that I had acquired and had come to an agreement with the seller to pay for it gradually in installments. Lastly I used the remaining funds to sort out nutrition because drought was upon us making nutrition quite a predicament occasionally.