My life is currently different from how it was in that, I managed to start a business using the first transfer. I sell electronics. My living standards have changed because I am sure of getting money by the end of the day. Previously, I used to do casual jobs like picking garbage to get an income after a month. This was challenging because not all clients could let me pick the garbage and others were not friendly making my work difficult. I thank GiveDirectly for uplifting my living standards.

My new goal is to buy land. Currently, we occupy land but it is not legally ours. Although I have already developed rental houses on the land, I plan to have my own just in case someone claims the land someday.

There are some houses that I have been renting out for some time now. They are two in number which my parent's hand left for me. From the time that I have managed them, I realized that having rental houses is better because someone is sure of getting money at the end of the money and for that reason, I decided to add three rental houses using my second and third transfer. This is a long term investment. I am a happy landlord because the houses are already occupied and now I am even sure of more money.

Sincerely, I was in a very bad position before GD supported me. I used to be a driver though not contracted. I worked on days that I was called to work this meant that I had no steady income. Paying rent and buying food for my family was a struggle. But when I received my transfers, I have been able to start a business and to my surprise, it is doing quite well. I can now sort all my bills with the revenue earned from the electronic shop.

My goal is to own a home in the future. This has been my dream ever since I was a child, this is because my parents never gave me a decent home so I used that experience to give my family a better life. I never want my children to go through the same experience in the ghetto. This motivates me to work hard.

When I received my very first transfer, I opened an electronic shop. I had checked around my estate and realized that there was a gap in electronic business. So when I received my most recent transfer, I bought more stock for my shop and this has seen me generate more income.

My goals are now to work hard on my business and purchase a piece of land where I can build my own house and stop paying rent.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that now am less idle unlike before when I would sit around waiting for turn-boy jobs or garbage collection jobs. My days are now busy with more meaningful activity after I opened up my electronic shop. I now spend my days in my shop attending to customers as I sell different electronic items in my shop.

I spent my transfers to open up an electronic shop in Mathare village two, near our youth group hall, Beavers group hall. I have always wanted to have my own business that sells electronic materials such as bulbs, bulb holders, extension cables, wires, switches and heaters; among others. I have never had the funds to start this business. I have been involved in garbage collection and assisting Public Service Vehicle conductors to fill their vehicles with passengers. I would make very little money out of this that would only be enough to cater for my most basic needs such as meals and rent. I never made anything extra. I was really excited with these transfers as I finally managed to open up an electronic shop that is my own. I stock these electronic materials and so far my business is doing quite well.

It was in the morning at around 6:00 AM when I heard a message come into my phone. On checking the message, it was an Mpesa message. When I saw the 20000 KES received in my phone, I first panicked thinking that someone had sent money wrongly to my number. Immediately after, I received another message from Give Directly and that is when it finally occurred to me that I had received my first transfers. I was really happy and for a moment I was just confused and filled with excitement. It was at that moment that I finally realized that now my plans would come to fruition and that I would finally achieve my goals.