My dream currently is for me to be able to expand my business, At the moment I plan to put the new stock of goods that I had purchased with the transfer money to good use. I believe that with proper management I would be able to expand my business. Thus I am hopeful and trust God that my dream would be realised.

GiveDirectly gave us unconditional transfer without asking anything in return. This was a show of kindness that I had not witnessed in my life before. Our social economic status was lifted tremendously thus we are grateful. In my Interaction with the staff, I have not witnessed anything that was not done well.

I do consider myself a woman that has brought change and equality to our society. This is because I am a cobbler in the village and a mother of seven children. Upon the receipt of my transfer, I thought of buying more items for my business. This is because I fully depend on it to generate income for my children's school fees. Thus I used KES 29,000 in expanding the business. I then gave my husband the remaining amount for him to buy goats and save the rest for school fees. I am so happy that everything when on smoothly as we had planned. We are grateful for the support that brought the biggest change in our lives

It was around 11 pm and we were already asleep. Suddenly, we heard a phone ringing hence notifying us that there was a new message. This jolted us from our sleep and we wondered what could the SMS be all about at this time. We decided to check it and to our surprise, we found out that it was an SMS saying that we had received the promised transfer of KES 55000 from GiveDirectly. We were so happy on seeing this that we woke up our children who were already asleep and we told them the good news. They were so happy on hearing this and we celebrated together giving thanks to God for the blessing.

The transfer brought a big difference in our lives as a family. We managed to buy a cow, something that we had wanted to have for quite some time. We now have milk for our consumption and hence we no longer incur the cost of buying milk like before. We also managed to buy some food with part of the transfer. With having done so, we have hence had fewer household expenses and as a result, I have managed to save some of the money that I make from my business. The business has thus improved a little bit compared to before.

We spent most of the transfer money on buying a cow. We bought it at KES 32000. This was our topmost priority upon receiving the transfer since we didn't have a cow and hence we used to incur the cost of buying milk daily. We used to buy a litre of milk at KES 80 and the litre was not still enough for our family of nine. We used to have some cows before but we had to sell them because we needed money for paying school fees for our children. Paying school fees has always been our biggest challenge because we have seven children in school, that is, five who are in secondary school and two in primary school. My husband usually does casual work of farming while as for me, I am a cobbler. The little money that we make from our income-generating activities is what we use in paying school fees and buying maize for our consumption. Apart from buying the cow, I also used KES 13700 on constructing a business premise for doing my cobbler business. I didn't have a place for doing my business and hence I used to do it on the corridors of other shops. With the remaining amount of money, we used it in buying food and clothes. We are grateful to GiveDirectly because, with the cow, we no longer incur the cost of buying milk.