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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
53150 KES ($493 USD)
access_time over 3 years ago
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How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
My life is different than how it would have been if I never received the transfers in that I have bought all the pipes and started irrigation on my farm. Our area is a semi arid and we rarely get rains. We do small scale farming and the harvest that we get is only for consumption. The drought in our area also contributed to low harvest. When I received the second transfer I found it wise to invest in buying pipes to irrigate my farm. Current I do horticulture farming. I plant onions, maize and bananas. This earns me an income to meet other basic household needs including paying school fees for my children and my siblings. I am so grateful for the support because I planting all seasons without being affected by drought.
In your opinion, what does GiveDirectly do well, and what does it not do well?
In my opinion GiveDirectly does well by giving money to the poor in the community to build better houses and to buy dairy cows.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I spent part of the money I received from GiveDirectly on buying sofa sets seats, I also bought a heifer, a pipe for irrigation on my farm and the rest of the money I bought food and clothes for the family.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
55000 KES ($500 USD)
access_time almost 4 years ago
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I had gone to work and when I got back, I saw the message and I was so excited and told my children about it and they were very excited.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
I had a vision of building an iron roof house but I did not imagine it would be this soon. I will forever be grateful to GiveDirectly for making this vision come true.
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I built a house since the one was living in was small and grass thatched. I also bought food and clothes for my family and they were so happy.
Enrolled
access_time 4 years ago
What does receiving this money mean to you?
I usually do casual jobs in my neighborhood to get money for survival. At the end of the day I can only buy food enough for that day I worked only. With these transfers I would like to start keeping livestock and from their products I can be able to feed my family and sell some to my neighbors and make it a big business over time.
What is the happiest part of your day?
The happiest part of my day is usually in the evening when I have just left where I was working that day. This is because I usually have a long day working in people's homes and ending the day well means that am able to provide food for my family that day.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
For the past six years in this place where we live, food crops have continually failed to reach maturity and therefore there has been no harvest. This has posed a big challenge on how am able to provide for my family since we have to buy everything including that we used to produce from the farm.
