The new goal that I did not have before receiving the transfer is purchasing goats. When I received the money I decided to invest in goats rearing project. This is because goats reproduce twice per year and it can help during an emergency.

GiveDirectly does well by giving out money to the poor in the community without any discrimination. The enrollment was done so well and everyone received the transfer. I do not find anything that GiveDirectly did not do well.

I spent KES 25,000 to purchase five goats. This is the best investment since goats reproduce faster. I will sell them when they have multiply to buy a dairy cow. This will enable me to cut the daily cost of buying milk which is so costly. I used all the remaining money to paid the debt that was pending from the land I bought from my neighbor. This was always my wish to clear and own the land fully. I am so Happy and now I'm doing horticulture farming. I hope to get enough food for the family and even sell the surplus to earn an income to meet other household items. I am so grateful for the support because GiveDirectly has enabled me to own a land and invest in horticulture farming.

I was away from home that early morning when I received a call from my close friend who is a neighbor asking me whether I had received the transfer. I had not used the phone since I left home that morning as I had placed it deep in my inner pocket and after the call, I was eager to check whether I was part of the celebrating lot. On checking it up, the first message notification was from GiveDirectly bearing the good news. The figures I read were so big that I could not resist a wide smile on my face even though I could hardly avoid feeling insecure with the money in my account. I had to inform my wife back home first whom on receiving the news she was overwhelmed with joy too as she confirmed the plans we had to start with. She wished me a safe journey back and stressed that I should be back home earlier than usual.

After the successful investment in the five sheep and a heifer, I am currently confident that I will raise enough school fees for my two sons to join their grade nine when the time comes. The joy of having the livestock on my field gives me great joy and affirms my hopes which is the biggest difference in my daily life. I expect to see them regenerate as the sheep breed I obtained has a shorter gestation period that if all goes well, one can reproduce twice a year.

For the past few years, I had been living with my two relatives who are currently schooling with my other children. Providing for the whole household with seven members had never been that easy given that we had been living at the mercy of small-scale farming productivity and the inconsistent casual labor that I depend on as an additional source of income. On receiving the first transfer, it was a dream come true as I had been hoping to venture into livestock farming as this is the only simple investment that does not require any special skill. I used the first KES 10000 on buying a heifer and KES 25000 on obtaining five Dorper sheep. I chose this breed due to their nonselective grazing habits that allow them to maintain their condition even when the quality of grass and other forage declines. The project will be a tool in the next few years as school fees payment for my two sons in grade seven will soon be knocking as they prepare to get to the secondary school level. At the moment of receiving the transfer, I also needed to construct an extension on one side of our current house to create an extra room for my children. I then had to purchase six iron sheets and paid the labor force summing up to KES 6000. With the remaining KES 13000, I replenished our food baskets and supplied other household utilities that we were already running short of. The previous harvest season wasn't so good for us and we had been buying maize as this is the stable food in our community.