I dont have a particular goal at this time due to financial constraints, though if I happen to get funds I will think of purchasing a parcel of land. This is because the land that I own at the moment is small and barely enough for farming.

Receiving money from GiveDirectly has been of great significance in my life, our living standards have been uplifted to a more higher and admirable standards. The transfer was given out without any form of discrimination. On my end, I have not witnessed anything that was not done well.

Farming has been my source of livelihood for a very long time, though this is not adequate due to the size of the land that we cultivate. I am a mother of five children. Upon the receipt of my second transfer, School fees needs were the top priority on my list, thus I used KES 10,000 on settling the arrears. Secondly, I bought solar lamps worth KES 8000 for lighting. Lastly, I used the remaining amount on buying basic household items like utensils and foodstuffs. Receiving money from GiveDirectly has been of great impact on our lives thus we are grateful for the support.

It was almost 8 am and I had just finished milking the cow when I heard my phone which I had left in the house ringing. I was with my husband at the cowshed. I wondered why my phone had rung and hence I decided to go and check what it was all about. I saw that I had a new message and on opening it, I was surprised when I found out that I had received KES 55000 that GiveDirectly had promised us in my mobile money account. I was so happy and I immediately went back to the cowshed to share the good news with my husband as I showed him the SMS. He was so happy and we thanked God because we now knew that we were going to fulfill the plans that we had already made.

The biggest difference that the transfer has brought into our lives is that we managed to buy a more piece of land which was our dream. We are thus glad to have achieved this. We will thus now have more space to practice farming and rear our cows. Other than that, with the solar battery that we bought, we now have enough lighting and the children have been able to study well at night. We are also glad that we managed to pay school fees for our child who is in college. We are hopeful that she will be able to complete his studies and start her tailoring business.

We spent KES 40000 of our recent transfer on buying a piece of land that was next to ours. We bought a point of an acre. We decided to buy it because we had a small piece of land, that is, two points of an acre which was not enough to practice farming. It has always been our wish to buy more pieces of land but we were not able to since we didn't have enough money. I usually practice small-scale dairy farming and I usually sell some of my milk to earn a living. My husband, on the other hand, is a motorcycle taxi driver. The money that we make is not that much and that is what we usually use in meeting all our needs, that is, to buy food and pay school fees for our five children. We also spent another KES 8500 on buying another solar battery. The one that we had, had spoilt and hence it could not light up the installed solar bulbs. As a result, we had to resort to using a portable solar lamp whose lighting was not enough for the children to study at night. We also spent KES 3000 on paying school fees for one of our children who is undertaking a tailoring course at a polytechnic college. With the remaining transfer amount, we used it on buying maize for our consumption and some small essential household items such as sugar. Thank you so much GiveDirectly for your big support to us.