Currently, I am striving to educate my three children who are still in school and at different levels. I am a broker and I know how lucrative the livestock business is. If I get money, I am planning to start up this kind of business. I will be traveling to different villages buying livestock and selling them during the market days. This will enable me to continue paying for their school fees on time as I also ensure that they get their basic needs on time.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly does well by giving out unconditional cash transfers to people. This enabled us to acquire what they did not have and achieve our goals in life like that of sending our children to school, buying livestock, and building better houses. I do not see anything it does not do well.

My son has been sleeping with his cousin who recently got married. Due to this, he had to always walk from one house to another looking for a place to sleep. This made me so uncomfortable and I felt that I had failed as a parent since I had no money to use in building him a house of his own. In addition, I had sold all the livestock I ever owned and used the money on school fees for my children and this had made us start buying milk daily. When I received my second transfer, I spent KES 30000 on a dairy cow, spent KES 20000 to build a house for my son, and used the remaining amount on food. I am a broker and I am happy that GiveDirectly has enabled me to achieve my goals and I am grateful for that. I believe that with what I have achieved so far, I will be able to continue supporting my three children who are still in school.

It was morning hours at around 11 am and I was at home busy with usual duties when I heard some of my neighbors saying that the transfers had been sent. I was excited on hearing this and I thus left whatever I was doing since I was curious to know if I had also received it. I went to get my phone in the house and on unlocking my screen, I found out I had a new message. I hurriedly opened it and to my surprise, it was an SMS saying that we had received KES 55000 from GiveDirectly. I was so happy that I called out to my wife who was outside busy with her household chores. I told her that the transfer that we had been eagerly waiting for had finally been sent. She came excited on hearing about this and we celebrated together giving thanks to God.

The transfer has brought a very big difference in my life and that of my family. We were able to buy another cow which is going to be of great help to us in getting more milk for sale and this thus will result in more income. We will hence be able to pay school fees for our four children with ease unlike before.

We spent most of the transfer money on buying a cow. We bought it at KES 38000. This was our biggest priority upon receiving the transfer. We wanted to buy the cow to add to the one we had since the cow is always of great help to us. We usually sell some of the milk that we get from it and the money from the sales has been helping us with school fees payment for our four children. One who is in college and the other three who are in primary school. With the cow that we bought, we will be able to increase our milk production and this thus means more income. Apart from the cow, we also took out KES 5000 that we used in paying school fees for our children. With the remaining amount of money, I used part of it in boosting the business that I usually do, and the rest we used it in buying maize for our consumption. School fee payment has been our biggest challenge and most of the money that I have also been making from the business of buying and selling cows has been going to the same. We are thus grateful to GiveDirectly because of the help.