Because I currently have a house in improved condition, I will be at liberty to focus on one thing for the next year. Having bought a lactating cow has created a desire in my heart to work towards keeping more livestock. Therefore for the following year, my main goal is to buy and keep additional goats and domestic fowl. It is an achievable goal that I have put my focus on. It will help me have an extra source of income and increase my asset value. As a result, supporting my two-member family will become easy.

GiveDirectly gives support through unconditional cash transfers. This is the best approach for effective poverty eradication from poverty-stricken communities. In addition, cash transfer is helpful to the elderly since they have the least energy and cannot engage in vigorous economic activities. Since I am advanced in age and I cannot engage in some work, without the transfer, life would be so unbearable. I have built a new house, and life is currently better courtesy of the transfer. However, there is nothing that GiveDirectly does not do well.

Since we are advanced in age, we live the two of us, my wife and I. When I received my transfer, I spent $300 on a lactating cow. From it, I always get milk for my household consumption. A situation that has saved me from the burden of buying milk. Since I had initiated a process of innovating my house, I used $100 to renovate it. I am so pleased that my house at the moment is in a better condition. Lastly, I bought food for my family, and we are strong because we have an improved nutritional value.

Receiving this money meant so much to me. I had no source of income, I had searched from door to door looking for a job but nothing good was forthcoming. I received the money when I was almost giving up in life, I had so many needs yet I was straining financially. I celebrated and had to inform all my neighbours who were enrolled in the program to check their mpesa notifications.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that my young family have been feeding on regular and balanced diet for several weeks. Since I had no source of income, before the transfers , my family could only take one meal a day, and this made my young family to be in and out of the hospital due to poor dieting.

I used the transfers to buy two cows worth Kshs 30,000.This is for remembrance of Give Directly transfers, should they give birth in the future, I will be using the milk produced , for my family's consumption and for sale when in excess. I used Kshs 20,000 to build a structure for rearing chicken and to add more chicks. I am a farmer, and rearing of chicken is advantageous as I will be delivering some of them to the hotels for sale, so as to cater for some of my family's needs. I used the balance of Kshs 5,000 to buy food for my family. I thank Give Directly for the transfers as my family have been feeding on regular and balanced diet for several weeks.