Currently, my life is different in that I am self- empowered since I have a business that I had started with GiveDirectly's transfer hence it keeps me busy and I no longer get lured to engage in criminal gangs unlike before when at times I would be rendered jobless and idle around Mathare slums.

I have no new goal but rather I am investing my time and effort to expand my motorcycle taxi business to meet my family's needs with ease when the income shall have doubled for instance.

Living in a big city such as Nairobi it comes with a lot of challenges mainly when one has a business, I am saying this because I had a business and one morning my business premise was demolished. I didn't know where to start since I was rendered jobs. Then after idling around I opted to secure security job in the nearby club where I was employed as a bouncer and the income I got from it was meagre hence providing for my family was a challenge. I spent my recent transfer to buy a motorcycle purposely for motorcycle taxi business hence I am able to supplement my income and with the profits to sustain my family with ease. I have created employment opportunity since I have hired someone who rides it for me on a commision.

My is life is quite different in a positive way. I am living a better life now. Using the transfer to start second-hand clothes business was a great decision for me. I now have a regular and reliable source of income. Earlier on before receiving the transfer I used to work as a security guard and earned KES 5000 monthly. This income was barely enough for my family's needs. As of now my income from the business is much higher, I am able to meet my family's needs well and even have extra to save. At the moment also I am dreaming bigger than I used to. I see life in a more positive perspective unlike before when life was full of hopelessness and negativity.

I have a goal of investing heavily in agriculture. I have always heard that farming pays but my financial situation has not allowed me to practice the same. When I received the transfers, I realized that I have enough capital to do the same. So far I have started working towards the same. I have sought the land disputes and as soon as I get the 3rd transfers I am going to practice large scale farming of vegetables.

I spent the KES 20,000 to start a clothe selling business.KES 2000 to pay rent and KES 10,000 to pay school fees for my children in secondary school. I then spent the remaining KES 4800 went towards buying food items for my household.

My biggest plan right now is to use the next transfer to start a second-hand cloth business in order to have a stable source of income and stop relying on casual jobs which are usually very unreliable and hard to find. I am also planning to clear my children's school fees for the whole of next year when I receive the third transfer so that they are no longer sent out of school all the time like was the case this year

This money has given me the hope of starting a lasting business which will generate a stable income to ensure my family's needs are always catered for. Before I received the money, we could go without meals or eat just once a day due to lack of money, but ever since I received the money, I am happy to say that we have always had three square meals every day,all thanks to GD's generosity.

I am planning to start a second-hand clothes business next year using the second transfer, so I used part of the money I received to put up a structure where I will be selling the clothes. I also spent some of the money on foodstuff and other household requirements because for several days before I received the money, my family had not had a decent meal and it was only fair that this was immediately taken care of. I saved the rest of the money for any emergencies and Christmas celabration purposes.

I did not actually believe that the money had been sent already, especially considering it was so early in the morning. For a moment, I thought it was a message from one of those conmen who usually send such messages, so I had to check my M-pesa balance to confirm if it was really true, and for sure it was. I was really pleased and immediately shared the great news with my wife.