Advancing the studies of my children after secondary education is the goal that I currently have. This will ensure that they obtain the right skills to make them stand a good chance of securing decent jobs in the future. Currently, I have put great hope on them to transform our living standards after school.

In my opinion, Givedirectly did well in conducting community engagement before enrolling households and sending the cash transfer. Through this, the officers passed out important information about the program which enhanced awareness and acceptance of the program. I feel that there is nothing that it did not do well.

Being illiterate, the ambition that I have is to provide quality education for my children so that they may have a better future. I spent a significant amount of the recent transfer on education, I used KES 45,000 to pay for school for my 3 children. One is in college taking a beauty therapy course, another one is in form 4 and about to complete her studies in December. The last one was joining form one so I did shopping for him and paid part of the required fees. I am very grateful for the transfer that my children are learning without any interruption because of pending school fees. The remaining amount assisted me in constructing a decent shelter for my children who were sleeping in a small temporary structure that was leaking and about to collapse.

It was early in the morning when I was about to get out of the bed and I heard a message notification from my phone. I thought my friend was trying to text me for us to leave for work and as I picked up the phone to read the message, I saw a cash transfer message pop-up. I was so eager to open it because I was not expecting money from anyone. "They have sent the money" I shouted. I was so excited that I woke everybody up and my whole family were so happy because this was a turning point for us.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that we are able to afford three meals per day and I was able to settle school fees arrears for my children who are nolonger being send home for school fees. That is a big win for me and my family and im looking for to achieve more.

I am the sole provider of my family because my husband doesn't have a job. Providing for my eight children has not been easy task because working in a quarry as a casual labourer doesn't earn me much and the job has not been easy. We live in a two rooms house which servers as kitchen, living and bedroom and because we couldn't fit in all, four of my children usually seeks for somewhere to spend their nights in the neighborhood. when I was enrolled into the program, my goal was to build a single room for my children so that they could finally feel like part of my family. I spend KES 23000 of my first transfer to buy iron sheets, KES 11000 to buy bed and mattress for me and my husband as we were previously sleeping on cartons, KES 2000 to clear fees arrear and the balance to buy five bundles of maize floor and other necessities enough to last us for a month. I'm looking forward to spend my next transfer to build the one room structure and roof it so that my children will finally have somewhere to spend their nights comfortably.