After accomplishing my goals of boosting the shop business and connecting tap water to the household. I do not have any other new goal at the moment. All I want is to concentrate my efforts on boosting the businesses of selling water and the shop. When all of them are operating well, I will be able to earn and save income that will comfortably meet the basic needs of my family.

GiveDirectly did well in enrolling every active household in the village without discriminating based on their economic status or religion. In my opinion, GiveDirectly should offer training to eligible households about how the transfers could impact their lives. Then, give them the right to decide on how to spend the transfer. Also to include more physical follow-up to make sure recipients get maximum impact from the cash aid.

I spent the first transfers connecting tap water to my household this was to have readily available clean water for the family use as well as to sell to the villagers. Due to the drought conditions, the water does not flow regularly since there is water rationing. At such times, it is very difficult to obtain water for use. I spent $380 of the recent transfer to purchase a water tank of capacity 2500Letres. My intention was to store tap water for my family's consumption as well as sell them to neighbors during the water shortage periods. In addition, I spent $100 to boost the small shop business where I sell foodstuffs like corn flour, beans, sugar and other detergents like soap by purchasing more stock. Nowadays, I am happy to see the business thriving well and our customers are getting a range of products. Similarly, the profit has increased by 5% making it easy to meet my family's essential needs like food.

I was at my shop that evening attending to customers when I got a message on my phone. Upon checking who could have sent the message, I realized it was an Mpesa message. I was curious to know who could have sent me the money since I was not expecting anyone to send it. I was greatly overjoyed when I realized that I had received my first transfer. I could not wait to withdraw the money and restock my business which was not doing well.

I am operating a shop business and though I was getting some good profit from it, I was not stocking different kinds of products. Also, it was not doing well and it was my only source of income. In order to increase sales, I had to buy more stock. I did not have the capital to restock my shop until I received my first transfer from GiveDirectly. I was able to buy a good stock of products and my shop is now thriving. I am expecting some good returns from this shop.

I am a trained teacher but up to now, I have not secured a job. I have been on short contracts which could not sustain me. I used my savings to start two projects which so far have been my source of income. I am operating a shop and also a poultry project as I search for a job. My desire was to grow my business and also expand my poultry project. Receiving the transfer offered a huge boost to these projects. I invested Ksh. 23000 on restocking my shop with different kinds of products. I am expecting a huge profit margin out of this. Having restocked my shop, I spent the remaining amount on improving the Chicken house and bought more birds to keep and rear them. I can readily look for a market to sell the chickens like hotels once they increase in number. This will ensure a cash flow also alongside the shop business.