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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
53150 KES ($442 USD)
access_time over 1 year ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
I do not have any new goals now. My main focus now is to do finishing for the new house that I have built. I am so grateful because currently I have a decent and spacious house. I will do the painting and purchase sofa set seats.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
GiveDirectly does well by giving money to the poor in the community to start various businesses, build better and decent houses, and pay school fees for their children in various schools. This has improved their standard of living. I do not find anything that GiveDirectly did not do well.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent all the second transfer on building a decent and spacious house. I was able to buy timber, nails, and iron sheets. I had always wanted to build a house but I did not have the money. This is because I did not have a stable source of income. We lived in a small mud house that could not host all my family comfortably. It was so hard to maintain since it involve smearing which was tedious for me. Currently, We live in a better and decent house. We are no longer being exposed to dust-related particles like before. I am so grateful because GiveDirectly has improved my standard of living.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
55000 KES ($482 USD)
access_time 2 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
It was at 4pm and I was in my farm weeding vegetables.I heard my phone vibrate and upon checking, it was a message bearing the good news from Givedirectly.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The biggest difference in my daily life is payment of school fees for my son. Having achieved all I had planned for my first transfer, I am looking forward to do more with my second transfer.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
Being an Early Education Development teacher, I had always struggled to clear any pending bills especially school fees. With Kshs.30,000 I paid all pending school fees.With Kshs.20,000 I used to purchase materials to impreovised(i.e to improve the stat
Blocks/balast/cement and am waiting for second transfer.
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access_time over 2 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
Receiving this money means financial independence. I teach early childhood education at a nearby school and going on retirement by end of this year after 32 years of service. I desire to be a dairy farmer after that and Givedirectly transfers will help me achieve this. All my five children are grown up and live independently apart from my last born son who is in the university. I plan on buying two dairy cows with KES 70,000 and use KES 15,000 to build a decent cow shed. This will secure my future because in two years time I can earn income from selling milk.
What is the happiest part of your day?
The happiness of every parent is to see their children prospering in education. I was elated when my son passed his secondary education exams last year and was successfully admitted to join university to study law. This brought me joy because he is the only one among all my children who has reached university level of education.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Financial constraints is the biggest challenge. Being a single mother, I have been raising all my children single handedly with the meagre salary of KES 12,000 that is not enough to cater for my son university school fees. I had to borrow a loan of KES 80,000 for him to join school which am still repaying for six months now. I am deducted KES 7,000 per month from my salary which leaves me struggling to cater for other basic needs.
