Now I am stress-free as I got to earn a good income through the business which I started. The money which I make from the cereals business which I do engage in has enabled me to raise school fees for my children and buy food. Before I would borrow some cash from friends and sometimes the lender come for it before the agreed time. This would really stress me and that I felt relieved when I invested part of the cash on my business which is now giving me good earnings.

I love what Give Directly did in our village through unconditional transfers. Now the living standards within my locality has tremendously changed as a result of the aid we received. Most residences spend the money on farming, housing, business and educating their children. On the other hand, I didn't notice anything negative about Give Directly.

The second transfers which I received from Give Directly, I spent part of it on purchasing building materials for house construction. I bought Ironsheets, timber, nails and pay for labour. I opted to spend on building a house so that we would have a good shelter over our heads. The other portion, I spend on buying a dairy cow with an intention of rearing for milk production. Milk is on high demand and I would sell the milk to generate income to cater for my family needs. The rest of the money I used to clear school fees balances for my child and expand my cereals business.

Before receiving my transfers, I had lived a stressful life as I was always worried about family access to basic needs. This is because the income from my business was not always enough to cater to these needs and to pay school fees for my children. Due to this, my children were frequently sent back home to collect school fees. This situation had negatively affected their performance since we could sometimes spend some days at home as I try to find the money for their fees. After using my transfers to boost my business, my profits from this business has greatly increased. As a result of this, I have been able to cater for our daily needs and pay school fees for my children on time. Seeing my family live happily is the biggest difference in my daily life. We currently have better access to daily needs unlike before.

Had it not have been my neighbor who informed me that GiveDirectly had sent us the money, I would have continued with my daily work without knowing that I had been made KES 55000 richer. Confirming the good news made me so happy as I knew that I would be able to uplift my living standards.

When I received my first transfer, I decided to use KES 20000 from it to boost my business. I do a business of buying and selling maize flour in my locality. I settled on this since I used to run out of stock sometimes and my customers had to walk for a long distance looking for them. I felt that raising my stock will increase my profits and am happy I enjoy higher profits than before. I used KES 30000 to buy two heifers. I settled on these heifers since a dairy cow was worth my all transfers and buying it could not allow me to achieve other things. I am happy to have these added assets in my homestead. I feel they have given me the security to lean on in case of a financial crisis in my family. I used the remaining amount to buy foodstuffs for my family.