Currently, I am planning to start my own butcher business. This will lead to financial independence.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly did well to enroll every household in our village. This has led to tremendous advancements. For example, those who could not afford to build Iron roofed houses have built them using the transfers. Secondly, those who couldn't afford school fees have paid school fees arrears using the transfers.

I have worked as a butcher man for the past few years. In a day I get KES 300 which is majorly used for food and household expenses. This job has been quite a struggle because I have to be accountable for each Kilo of meat I sell. When I received the first transfers I used a part of it to purchase construction materials for building a new Kitchen. This is because earlier, I had a very tiny kitchen that could accommodate only four people and was built with old Iron roofs. So, when the second transfer arrived I used KES 20,000 to complete the new modern and spacious kitchen. Secondly, I used KES 20,000 on a young bull. This is because it grows fast and can be later sold for a dairy cow. Thirdly, I spent KES 6600 on two bags of maize. This has sustained us for the past month and the remainder will sustain us for the next two months. This has helped in reducing household expenses which were KES 300 per day. The remainder of KES 1,400 was used on the purchase of two cooking pots and KES 2,000 on a three sofa set seater. This has made my house very comfortable.

I was already asleep at around 11:00 pm when I received a call from a friend within the village who informed me of the receipt of the transfer. I was so excited that on checking it up, I also found a confirmation message and had to wake my wife up who was very grateful too. We had been planning after getting enrolled and at that moment we had already settled on the construction of a new kitchen since we had only one building that served both as a kitchen and a main living room for the family. We could not catch any sleep after but waited till dawn when I collected the money from the nearby shopping center.

The biggest difference in my daily life is the comfort I am enjoying having separated the kitchen and the living room after the construction of a new kitchen. Fumes from the kitchen had been annoying in the previous months but after the separations of the two rooms, I am glad that we are enjoying the fresh air.

Upon a long discussion and agreement with my family on how best we can use the first transfer in transforming our living standard, I withdrew all the amount and spent the first KES 30000 on the construction of a new kitchen. I am glad that it took me a short period to acquire all the required materials and later a constructor who completed the work within a short time as well. We can now sleep in a room free of fumes from the kitchen since the main house and the kitchen is two structures apart. I also spent KES 14000 of the remaining amount on obtaining four goats to add to the initial two that we had. This is a plan to sell them out in the future and buy a dairy cow that will stop the perennial buying of milk for my family. With the remaining bit of the money, I spent KES6500 on furniture and the remaining KES 4000 on buying foodstuff that we had been using to date.