The long-term goal is to provide my son a life that is as far away as possible from what I have been able to provide for him. See him graduate from high school and become someone. While on that journey, I found a way to start a wholesale business. Selling cooking oil, cereals, dry foods, and other household utilities would ensure we have a good income to make the lives of our kids better.

Give Directly excels at being a blessing. There's no other way to put it. They are truly a blessing. They have come into the lives of myself and my community and completely impacted our lives, positively, to a degree we would never have, in our wildest dreams, imagined. They excel at being agents of change and are above reproach in my eyes.

My husband has long worked as a mason, despite us not having built our own home. The funds from GiveDirectly were then quickly funneled towards construction of a three bedroom house ,complete with verandah. It is more than sufficient for a still-growing family such as ours. It currently consists of our 3 year, 6 month old son, myself and my husband. While my husband earns $25 per day from his toils, it isn't nearly enough to sustain us, seeing as I don't work myself. As a result, I purchased a male and female cow for breeding as well as five local breed chickens, to supplement what I grow for domestic use on our five acres of land. My main crops are Maize, cassava, and local cereals are primarily what I grow. Without GiveDirectly stepping in, we would have been living one day at a time.

While grazing my goats in the field, a friend of mine came with the good news of the GiveDirectly transfers. She told me to check on my phone if I would have received the money because she had received hers. I was a bit reluctant to leave for the home where I had left my phone and I thanked her for the information but I stayed in the field looking at my goats. At around 11 am when I reached home, I checked and it was true, the transfer message from GiveDirectly was waiting for me. My heart was filled with joy and happiness for receiving the amount knowing that I would do some of the things that I could not due to lack of money.

I am very grateful to GiveDirectly for the unconditional transfer they made to me. The money enabled me to see my longtime desire coming to fulfillment. For years, I had desired to start a shop business that would serve my family as an income-generating activity but due to a lack of enough capital, it did not work. This is until when GiveDirectly came into my life. For sure the organization empowered me and uplifted me to a higher level in life.

Upon withdrawing the money, I constructed a three bed-roomed house. I did this because the house I had was very old and in a bad state to live in. two rooms were for my family while one room was for a shop. I had desired to start a business that in return would have some income for my family. Concerning that, I used KES 25000.00 to build the house. I planned to start the shop business with a capital of KES 35000.00; therefore I added some amount from my savings and started the shop.