Although I don't have a reliable job that I can earn income from, I am planning to work as a casual in the neighborhood tea plantations so that I can raise enough capital to open a second hand clothes boutique. Achieving this means financial independence and also supporting my husband with family responsibilities.

What GiveDirectly does well is uplifting the poor in the society. Previously, the village was surrounded with grass thatched houses but right now, every household has a iron sheets roof over their heads. People have also been able to pay school fees for their children and buy domestic animals.

Before I was enrolled in the program, we were living in a quarter piece of land that my husband had inherited from his father. With this small piece of land, we couldn't do much on it as far as farming is concerned. I used to ask several of my neighbors to give me a small piece of land each so that I can plant maize for family consumption. Sometimes, I would work on their farm in return of the favor. Our long life desire was to buy our own piece of land but my husband who works as casual in the neighborhood farms couldn't afford to raise that money from his average daily wage of $1.5. Since my goal when I was enrolled was to buy a piece of land, I had saved $400 from my first transfer which I combined with my second transfer and bought a three quarter acre piece of land worth $900. I am so grateful to GiveDirectly for making it possible for us to achieve our dream. Right now, I do farming on my own piece of land and it is so satisfying.

It was around 5 pm and I was at home relaxing after finishing the day's work. Suddenly, I heard my phone ringing in the house notifying me of an incoming new message. I went and checked it and to my surprise, I found out it was an SMS saying that I had received KES 55000 from GiveDirectly. I was so happy and I immediately called my husband who also was so excited upon receiving the good news. We thanked God and GiveDirectly because we now knew that we were going to fulfill the plans that we had.

The biggest difference that the transfer has brought into our lives is that our lives have been uplifted and we are no longer like before. Life was tough back then and our living standards were very low. We are thus happy because we got the piece of land that we have always wished to have. We will thus be having somewhere to look after a cow. We now also have chairs that we can sit on together with our guests when they visit us.

We spent most of our recent transfer money on buying a piece of land. We bought a point of an acre at KES 35000. We decided to buy the land because the one that we have is small and there is nowhere to rear a cow. We also wanted the piece of land to be a remembrance of GiveDirectly to us. We had always wanted to buy a piece of land but we did not have the money to do so. I am a small-scale farmer where I usually rent land and grow crops such as maize and spring onions for sale. My husband on the other end is casually employed as a teacher. The money that we get from our income-generating activities most of it usually goes to the purchase of food and paying college fees for my husband since he is still going on with his studies. Other than that, we also bought 2 chairs and their cushions at a total cost of KES 6200. We had built a house before but we had not managed to buy the chairs. The guests visiting our household hence used to lack somewhere to sit. We also bought 2 bags of maize for our consumption at a total cost of KES 7000. With the remaining amount of money, we used it in buying clothes for our children. We are thus so much grateful for the help that GiveDirectly gave us.