My life is now different from how it used to be in the past because I have been ab;e to purchase the three-wheeler machine which generates money for the family. I also managed to offset the huge school fees arrears for my child which had become such a stumbling block towards his advancement in his education ladder.

In my opinion, I believe that the organization has changed our lives to a great extent. I used to operate a small scale business which was almost collapsing due to lack of enough funds to run the business, but today I have been able to move from one step to the next because I have been able to add more stock which in turn generates more cash on a day to day basis.

I used the money to buy a three-wheeler machine which my husband has so far been using to ferry passengers at a fee in Mombasa city. The machine has kept us going because my husband is able to generate some income on a daily basis which we then use to cater to the family's

The biggest difference in my daily life is that it was only through the first transfer that enabled me to buy diverse products and stock to add to my business. I am now glad since my profit margin has increased as compared to what I was previously earning. This has enabled me to meet all my family basic needs and to pay my children's school fees on time. I give all thanks to GiveDirectly for financial support.

My phone was off and was charging at the time I was hearing rumors from my neighbors that GiveDirectly has sent us the money they had promised. I went for it and turned it on and amazingly, the first message was from them indicating that I had received my first transfer. I was very happy than before as I tried to figure out what I would spend my transfer on.

I am a businesswoman and I have a shop and grocery in my town from which I was only selling only one kind of vegetables and the stock in my shop was not enough to earn me a good profit since I did not have diversified products. When I received the transfer, I used part of it to stock different types of products that are marketable like second-hand clothes and added to my grocery business other types of vegetables and fruits. There is a great improvement in terms of the profit that I am currently earning as compared to what I was previously earning. It was only through the transfer that enabled me to diversify my business to earn an increase in the profit margin. In addition to my business, I also bought a dairy cow to keep it until its able to reproduce and to get milk from it. This will relieve me the burden of buying milk daily from others which to me is costly. On the remaining amount, I paid a portion of my child's school fees and also purchased some utensils for my home since I did not have enough.