I plan to join more support groups within my community, especially the one that is doing table banking. With this, I can expand my business and also cater for the pressing school fees needs of my children. I am optimistic that with determination and hard work, I would pull through eventually.

GiveDirectly empowered our community amazingly. The changes are noticeable all over the village. The unrestricted cash enabled us to accomplish our needs on time. People renovated their houses, others paid school fees for their children and many more developments. Though, I would request that in future the organization should consider all the members of a particular village even if they work in the township because they too needed the support to elevate their lives.

Upon receiving my second transfer, I thought of prioritizing the school fees of my son who had gotten admission to college. I, therefore, used the entire second transfer of $550 to enrol my son in a medical college to study clinical medicine. Seeing my son in college gives me joy and happiness because would not have been easy without the financial aid from GiveDirectly. I am a food vendor in the village and my husband is a security guard in the township. Together, we have five children. I am contented and happy with the support that uplifted our living standards and gave us hope for a better tomorrow.

It was 8:15 am and I had already gone out to work when I heard my phone ringing hence notifying me of a new message. I stopped to check it and I could not believe my eyes when I read that I had received KES 55000 in my mobile money account from GiveDirectly. I was so happy on seeing this and I now believed that what GiveDirectly had promised us was real. I thanked God for it because I now knew that we were going to be able to solve the problems that we had.

The transfer has brought a big difference in our lives as a family. This is because we managed to build boy's quarters for our boys where they can sleep and study. We also managed to increase the number of livestock that we own. The increased number of livestock will enable us to get more milk that we can sell and get money for paying school fees for our children. We can also sell a calf to raise school fees in the case when things get tough. Other than the above, our boy was able to apply for college with part of the transfer amount. We are thus grateful because all these only became possible due to the support from GiveDirectly.

We spent about KES 30000 of our recent transfer on building a boy's quarters for our two boys. We decided to do so because they didn't have a place of their own to sleep. They have thus been sleeping in a borrowed house. We have been meaning for a long time to build them a house of their own where they can sleep and study but we had not gotten the money needed to do so. I have a small grocery business while my husband is casually employed as a security guard. The money that we get is not much and most of it usually goes to the payment of school fees for our five children. Other than that, we also bought a cow at KES 20000. We decided to buy the cow so that it can help us in the future when it calves. We will be able to get milk that we can sell and get money for paying school fees for our children or we can sell a calf when it gets tough to get money. We also gave KES 2000 to our son who recently completed his secondary school studies to use in applying for a medical course. With the remaining transfer amount, we spent it on buying school uniforms for our three children who are in primary school and we bought some home clothes for them. Thank you so much GiveDirectly for the support.