I am happy after spending the first and second transfers, the results are amazing, and even though I still have the task of ensuring that the projects succeed, I have an additional goal to see how to raise school fees for my son. He sat for his primary national examinations this year, and he performed well. He is yet to join the secondary school and the school fee is higher compared to what I was paying while he was in primary. I am planning to raise part of the fees with the income I earn from my business that I recently started with the first transfer.

In my opinion, it was a great move by Give Directly to ensure that everyone was well-informed about their program before they could give us the money. Thereafter, everyone was given the money directly without any discrimination. This showed transparency on their side. I do not have any complaints but congratulate them for the awesome work.

Livestock rearing has been very helpful and the most common source of income in my household. I have always invested heavily in it and never regretted it. With the second transfer, I bought two cows at 40000 KES. They are beneficial in terms of milk provision and once they give birth I will have more of them. I have school-going children, and I am hopeful that in the future they will come in handy whenever faced with challenges to raising the fees. 14000 KES I have set aside for household foodstuffs. It has been of great help, especially with the current drought we are facing that has made food to be scarce.

I can vividly remember I was awakened by the loud vibrations from my mobile phone at around 4 AM. This was so strange to me because I hardly receive messages at such hours. Therefore I was so curious and decided to check who it could be. Whatever I saw was beyond my expectations. I had finally received my first cash transfer as I had been guaranteed earlier during the enrolment time. I was extremely happy and I couldn't afford to sleep again. After hours later I informed all my family members in regards to the great news. We started planning on how best we would spend it.

The biggest difference in my daily life of that I am now a proud owner of the livestock. This has been a long time to own at least one but this was not achievable because they were very expensive on the other hand, I was facing lots of hardships. I settled for the dairy cow because I will be getting plenty of liters for free. I am planning to sell the milk in the nearby dairy shops and the remaining liters will be for my family consumption. This will be a surplus to their daily meals. I am however planning to save the cash in my account. The money will specifically cater to my family's basic needs and pay school fees for my children on time. Being the family's breadwinner of nine, it has never been easy in making the ends meet. I feel there is a relief in my life because I am so sure that I will no longer be straining in fending for my family's basic needs. Also, I am certain that as days go by they will reproduce and I will have many of them.

I spent part of my first transfer on buying livestock more so one dairy cow and three goats at a total of KES 19000. I have been yearning to own them for years but because of my financial difficulties, I couldn't afford them. Moreover, I cleared school fees arrears of KES 4000 for my four children who are still in primary schools. Their exams were due and I am so glad that the money came in good time. In addition to that, I bought iron sheets worthy of KES 10000, nails KES 3000, timber KES 4000, and the labor charges of KES 6000. I purchased all these to build a new house since the previous one was almost falling. With the remaining amount of money, I bought foodstuffs and nice attires for my kids.