My husband has been working as a water supplier but hiring someone's cart. Hiring the cart limited him from getting enough money after a whole's day hard work. The amount of money that he could earn whatsoever has never allowed him to make some savings so as to realize his dream of owning his cart. Having his hand cart after receiving his transfer from GiveDirectly is the biggest difference in our life. Nowadays he is able to give me 1000 KES per week as compared to 500 KES for our household use that he could part with before.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly did a very good thing to give us money through involving us directly and not involving authorities. I feel that this process enhanced transparency of the whole process. I do no see what GiveDirectly did wrong at its work.

I spent my second transfer on to pay dowry for my spouse. For seven years being unable to afford to pay dowry would diminish my spouse. I feel happy after passing through this rite of passage that has bonded my family more as we are now staying peacefully. I bought a hand cart with the remaining amount for my husband.

The goats I recently bought has totally changed my life. The fact that start has started reproducing gives me hope of achieving my long term goals. Since they multiply very fast and the market demand is also very high, it means I will soon be financially stable. My intention is when they multiply and mature, I will be selling the offspring. This will help me pay school fees for my children. Since my children are still young, I am sure by the time they will be attaining the age of joining school the money I would have saved from the business will be enough to take them to school. We are both jobless and we felt this would be the best solution to meet our financial needs

It was around 6 am when I heard my phone my vibrating. I was a bit shocked because I was not expecting a message at such an hour. Upon checking, I realized it was an Mpesa message from GiveDirectly. They had sent me the first transfers as they had promised us during our first community meeting. I was very happy. I still remember this day as if it was yesterday

I spent part of my first transfer on buying goats, I settled in rearing them because the climatic condition in our village is ideal for their growth. I am sure this is the best way of investing my transfers because the chances of failing are very minimal. In addition to that, I decided to give my spouse a portion of this money to pay my dowry. My parents have been unhappy because the dowry had not been settled, it reached a point they advised me to file for a divorce because they felt he was not serious. I am now happy because my parents are okay no longer pushing for the divorce. I later bought a solar lantern because previously I used to use candles which were very costly and not efficient. I then bought some household hold items and some foodstuffs that would last us for a while.