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2nd Payment
Transfer Amount
25500 KES ($253 USD)
access_time 6 years ago
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How is your life currently different from how it was four months ago?
My life has completely changed because I have to build a house and bought a dairy cow. I also hired labor for digging a well. I now have water on my compound.
Do you have any new or additional goals for your life for the next four months?
I have new goasl to starta shop business.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer.
The biggest difference in my life is the fact that I live on a good house. I used to live on a grss thathed house that was very delapidated.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
In the next six months , I will be livinga good life than I do because I will have an income from the dairy cow amd the chicken I will be rearing.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
25500 KES ($254 USD)
access_time over 6 years ago
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Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The biggest difference in my daily life since I started receiving payment from GiveDirectly is the new kitchen that I have built. I am happy I have a good kitchen now unlike like before when I had a poorly roofed kitchen. It was stress using this kitchen.
How do you expect your life to change in the next six months?
In the six months, I expect my life will have a better life in that will have more income from poultry keeping and livestock keeping.
How is your life different than it would have been if you never received the transfer?
My life is currently different from how it would have been if I had never received the transfer in that I am happy what I had seen to be impossible to be done, I have done it like my new kitchen. With the next transfer, I am hopeful to do more good things like renovating my living room and starting poultry farming.
Do you have any new goals that you didn't have before receiving the transfer?
The new goals that I have that I didn't have before receiving the transfer are to start poultry farming and livestock keeping.
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access_time over 6 years ago
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
I remember back in 1962 when I was in primary school class seven when I fell sick.I was diaognised with tuberculosis and had to seek medication at Tenwek Mission Hospital.This medication did not help much and had to resort to traditional herbal medicine.I later realised I had a lung tumor and started medication using the same traditional herbalist.These health problem persisted for over ten years and hampered my ability to work in my farm.I felt that I wasted this years but all the same I thank God that I felt better and now seeing myself at this age is a blessing.
What is the happiest part of your day?
The happiest part of my day is in the afternoon.This is because I am glad to have finished the day's activities that I had planned for.
What are you planning to spend your transfer on?
I am planning to spend my transfer on building a house.
What is the achievement you are proudest of?
The achievement I am proudest of is being a farmer.I remember at one time when I was a pyrethrum farmer and used to get a lot of income from it.I bought cattle from the pyrethrum sales which later helped me take my four sons to technical colleges to add to the primary education they had.
