I started a business and now I can afford day to day feeding of my family. I eat well without having to do a lot of casual work which made me look so old yet I am a young wife and parent. I paid a loan I had taken to buy building materials i. e. iron sheets to renovate my house using the profits I get from my groceries business. I now stress free because I can concentrate on my business without thinking I owe anyone anything.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly has really improved the lives of my community members. People have built new houses through these transfers and improved their businesses from small scale to large scale businesses. I dreamt of venturing into large scale sugarcane farming and it was impossible to do so as I did not have enough funds to do so. I used the transfers to lease large farms, hired a tractor to plough the farms. I can now fulfil that dream and my family will raise more income to improve our lifestyle.

Sugarcane farming on a large scale has been my dream but I have been hindered from doing this because I did not enough farms. I used the transfer to lease three more farms. I also hired a tractor to plough the farms and also bought sugarcane seeds. I expanded my groceries business by extending the structure where I sell and even adding more stock. All these sources of income will result in an increase in profits and hence provision for my household and other personal needs will be sufficiently met.

The biggest difference is that I now have a sugar cane farm which will change my economic status in the near future.

I was so happy that I cannot explain. The fact that I was able to raise the amount for farming sugar cane made me the happiest person.

I have longed to engage in farming. Upon receiving the money I invested some amount in sugar cane that was amounting to Ksh 25,000 then the remaining amount I bought building, mate rials for putting up my kitchen.