The biggest difference in my life brought about by GD transfers is that I am able to pay my house rent in time on a monthly basis. Before the transfers, I used to rely on low and inconsistent income from construction jobs which could not even meet my personal needs. In most cases, my landlord would lock me out of the house as I did not have the money to pay. We had a very rough relationship with my landlord and even if I was genuine with the reason for not paying rent in time, he would not believe me. Ever since I started receiving my transfers, I have always dedicated them to paying rent. As a result, I have never failed to pay rent and right now, I am the most talked about by the landlord for showing commitment to paying rent in time. I thank GD for the transfers.

My new goal, for now, is to ensure I do not go through the embarrassment I used to go before the transfers. I will ensure I pay my rent first as soon as I get the money so that I may stay in peace with my landlord. The other needs will come later after I have stabilised with the transfers. Rent is my major issue for now and will improve on the rest later.

I spent my transfer on paying my house rent. GD transfers have been very helpful in paying my house rent ever since I started getting the transfers. This is because I used to struggle to raise money for rent as a result of an inconsistent job at a construction site. In most cases, I would be locked out of the house for late payment. The rest of the transfers I used on buying food so that I may not run out fo food in the course of the month.

Before I got enrolled into the program, I could not manage to make any savings because my earnings from the casual jobs that I mostly depended on were very little and barely enough to cater to my personal needs. With the transfers supplementing my monthly income, I have been able to comfortably pay my bills in time, buy my provisions and make some savings each month which may later enable me to venture into a business that can increase my overall income and eventually a better lifestyle.

I have been working part-time as a water vendor and always idle most of the time that I am not working because we work in shifts to allow more youth an opportunity to get some little money, according to my employer. With a lot of time in my hands, I feel that I should engage in something else to generate extra income and it needs to be something I am passionate about such as video gaming. I have thought of opening a video gaming station around my area of residence because most residents here who are mostly idle like passing time in such kinds of places, but the only challenge is raising the amount required to buy the necessary equipment. I have however started saving some little money each month and I hope that I will manage to buy some of them before the end of this project.

I spent most of the money I recently received to pay my rent and electricity bill for the month. I had not managed to save any money from my job to help me with the payments of these bills as I usually do, therefore, had no otherwise but to use most of my transfer to take care of them. I then saved the rest of the money in my M-shwari account.

I am a fruit vendor along the streets. I am happy this can make me at least KES 500 a day. With the profits, I am able to buy more stock and also cater for my basic needs like paying house rent, which back then, I could stay for months without settling due to inadequate finances. I am glad I can also plan for my finances to meet all my basic needs, something that could not happen before.

Recently I joined a driving college through the small savings that I had in my account. I am vending fruits on the streets and sometimes survive on manual jobs and now my goal is to complete the driving course so that I may acquire new skills that will enable me to get employed as a driver for more income, alongside my fruit vending business.

I spent a portion of my most recent transfer shopping for my household and sent part of it to my parents. I gave them 1000, for their upkeep. I spent KES 2000 to cover for travel expenses as I had gone to visit them upcountry too. I spent the remaining to cater for my own personal expenses especially the basic needs.

My goal is to buy a motorcycle and venture into motorcycle business. This be a source of income to meet my basic needs and I will no longer do casual jobs as I do now . Currently, I depend on casual jobs and the money I get is little and could not meet all my basic needs.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I can now pay rent in time unlike in the past when my landlord would lock my house when I did not get money to pay rent. I also have enough food in my house since I used part of my transfers to buy enough food which will last until I get my next transfer. I have also managed to save the income I get from casual jobs unlike in the past when all the money I got could only cater for food.

I used my most recent transfer to pay rent and electricity bill since I received the money at a time when I had not paid the Land lord. I also bought food and save the remaining amount since I am planning to buy a motorcycle in future.

I was so happy when I received my transfer. I knew that I will no longer struggle to pay rent and buy food as I used to do before I received my transfers since I will be getting money every month from Give Directly.