My main goal is to work and invest more in my grocery business. Every penny I make from my business will be mainly for the education of my five children. My biggest accomplishment in the future is to educate all five of them and have them complete their high school and join college.

GiveDirectly is one reason I could build a bigger house that would accommodate my children. The funds have allowed me to open my business. I have no criticism of GiveDirectly other than my request that they would continue enrolling more villages in Kilifi county and help in eradicating poverty.

I am an unemployed mother of five children and my husband makes and sells palm wine as his source of income. The lack of a reliable source of income and my unemployment has been our major challenge. I have been living in a small single room with my children. As they grow, it is uncomfortable to live with all of them in a tiny space. I spent my first transfer on building a two-roomed house and a verandah, and the rest of the funds paid school fees for my three children and food for the family. I spent my next transfer of $180 to buy a cow and used the rest of the $350 to open a grocery. Part of the cash was used to build a vegetable stall and bought different vegetables to start with. Starting a business had been on my mind for the longest time and GiveDirectly allowed me to do so with the transfers.

It was around 8 in the morning when I was at the farm then I received the message notification. Without wasting time, I decided to check its content. On checking, I realized that it was an Mpesa message from GiveDirectly, they had debited my first transfers as promised. I felt so happy for I know would finally achieve most of my goals.

The biggest difference in my daily life that I can proudly talk of I the fact that I now own a semi-permanent spacious house. I have been having h desire to construct one for so my yers, but due to the poverty life that had stricken my household, I could not afford it. The previous house was in a deplorable state, and it could not accommodate some of my family members. Therefore they were forced to sleep at our relative's houses which is far away from the village. During the rainy seasons, I also had to seek shelter from friends since the house had a leaky roof. The coming of GiveDirectly into my life transformed everything positively. I am now living happily and pecifuly with all my family members which have been my long time dream.

I spent part of my first transfer on buying some building materials which include, iron sheets, several building poles, timber, and thread. I bought all these with an intention of constructing a new house since the previous one was in poor conditioning very small. With the remaining amount of money, I bought sufficient foodstuffs for my family and decent clothes to replace the old ones.