Yes I got new goal of making sure that I start a small business. We were still saving up with my husband to ensure that we had enough money to pay for the piece of land. Having received money from GiveDirectly, we cleared the remaining amount and I now have a new goal of starting a small business that will help us sustain our family. I intend to start a small shop and stock it with foodstuff and other basic neccesities. I currently work as a surbodinate staff at a nearby school while my husband relies on small business to earn income and help in running the affairs of our family. I look forward to achieving this over the next couple of months.

In my opinion GiveDirectly did well by giving us money as grants. Everyone within our village got an opportunity to spend the money freely without having to worry of how they would pay back the money and this reduced the levels of satisfaction that comes with spending the money wisely. It also gave an opportunity to everyone who failed to spend the money wisely after receiving the first transfer to be able to redeem themseves and spend the money wisely upon receiving the second and last transfer.

Used all of my recent transfer to pay for a piece of land that we had paid for it partially and we are extremely happy as a family that we now have the piece of land with us. We have been living in a very small piece of land where we have been very limited in terms of what we caould do with it and we are so happy that finally we have a piece of land where we can build a better house and engage in more profitable farming activities as well. We are looking forward to moving into it soon.

It was early in the morning at around 5 am. I had just woken and as usual, I reached out for my phone at where I had placed it. I wanted to see if I had new messages or missed calls from last night. I unlocked my screen and I saw that I had a new message. I opened it to check the contents, and to my surprise, it was an SMS saying that we had received KES 55000 from GiveDirectly. I was so happy on seeing this that I immediately called my husband who was away at work to share with him the great news. He was so excited on hearing this, I then asked him if he was going to get an off at his work place to come home so that we could plan together on how to spend it. He said he would try his best, he then requested me to go withdraw the money and keep it safe which I did after I was done with my morning household duties.

The transfer brought a very big difference in my life and that of my family. The cow that we bought is producing about a litre and a half in the morning and the evening a litre. This amount is enough for our consumption and I am also supplying a litre to my neighbor. We have thus been able to save up some money since we no longer incur the cost of buying milk and maize like before. The money that I am making from the sale of milk is what I save in the self-help groups that I have joined.

We spent most of the first transfer money on buying a cow. We bought it at KES 38000. We decided to buy the cow because this was what we had always wanted to have the most. We do not have a source of milk and hence we usually incur the cost of buying a litre daily at KES 45. Apart from buying milk, we also usually buy maize for our consumption. These costs plus buying other household goods and clothes for the children are what usually takes up most of the money that we make. I am a subordinate staff at a nearby dispensary while my husband is casually employed as a driver to supply loaves of bread and other snacks. Due to the costs, we had hence not been able to buy the cow. We are thus grateful to GiveDirectly because with having bought the cow, we no longer incur the cost of buying milk like before. Apart from the cow, we also bought a bag of maize at KES 3300, and with the remaining amount of money, we used it in buying clothes and a water container.