My goal is to take my child to secondary school . He scored averagely in his K.C.P.E and I'll be so happy to finally enrol him in secondary school . He has already received a calling letter and is supposed to join on 23rd of this month , I'll need approximately $100 to be able to enrol him . So , I plan to sell 1 of the goats that I bought recently but my worry is that their prices have since dropped to almost a half . I'm trusting in God that I'll achieve this .

You know I'm laughing throughout our conversation because Give Directly has become my best friend . You helped people in this village and we are all happy . We have build good houses , paid school fees for our children , other people have even bought pieces of land while others have built shops and started businesses . Personally I had not bought myself a new dress for a long time , thanks to Give Directly , because I bought one . There is nothing to improve , you did everything correctly .

My husband and I assist each other in fending for our family of 8 children . He owns an electronics repair shop while I own a grocery shop , I also sell street food like 'githeri' . I really wanted to start goat keeping , so I spent $180 on 2 does which were being sold at $90 each . The does have since given birth and I'm already enjoying their milk . Later I can sell their kids when financial needs arise . I didn't have a water storage tank and this made me suffer during drought seasons , so I spent $30 on a 320 litre water tank . Also I used to feel embarrassed because my house had old fashioned chairs , I'm happy I was able to buy modern 6-seater sofa sets which did cost $50 . Right now my house looks presentable . So I took the old chairs to my kitchen and we now have enough space to sit while cooking . My 2 children who are in secondary school had arrears of $240 which I cleared . Finally I bought a nice dress worth $10 for myself because it had been long since I wore a new dress . Thank you so much Give Directly because without your money , I would have not achieved all these . May God bless you .

It was around 5:30 pm. I was at the farm. Before I got there, I had heard people in my neighborhood saying that they had received the transfers. I hence kept on eagerly waiting for it. Suddenly, when I got to the farm, my phone rang hence notifying me of a new message. I immediately çhecked it and wow! it was the message saying that I had also received the promised transfer of KES 55000 from GiveDirectly. I was so happy on seeing this that I immediately called my husband to inform him of what had transpired. He was so happy too and he came home as soon as possible. We now knew that our children will be able to go back to school and study well.

The biggest difference that the transfer brought into our lives is that we were able to clear the school fees balances for our children and hence they were able to go back to school after staying home for a while. It was a big relief to us having achieved that. They have hence been able to concentrate on their studies. Other than that, the children are also happy because they got new clothes for themselves. We are thus happy and grateful to GiveDirectly for everything they have done for us.

We spent KES 36000 of the recent transfer money on paying school fees for our three children who are in secondary school. We paid KES 12000 for each one of them and we managed to clear the arrears. They had stayed for a while at home due to the balances and we did not know where we were going to get the money to pay for them the school fees. We do not have stable sources of income since I usually practice small-scale subsistence farming while my husband depends on casual jobs such as repairing broken radios to get money. We are glad that the transfer from GiveDirectly came through and the children were able to go back to school. We also spent another KES 7640 on buying two chairs and their cushions. We bought the chairs because we did not have any. Other than this, we also bought 2 bags of maize at a total cost of KES 7200 for our consumption. We are a family of ten people and we usually incur a lot of costs buying maize since maize crops do not usually do well when planted due to some disease that usually affects it. We also bought a water container at KES 3000 and with the remaining amount of money, we used it in buying clothes for the children. Thank you so much GiveDirectly for your big help.