I used KES 2000 to reduce the KES 5500 school fee arrears for my four children, one of whom is in high school and the other three are in primary. I then used the remaining amount to purchase food and water. Due to the droughts, most of our streams have dried out and brought about water scarcity in the area. We are forced to buy a 20-liter jerrican of water goes for KES 40. Since I have a large family, I use about 6 jerricans on a daily basis, and it has been quite expensive to manage. As I am currently unemployed and I depend on my husband works at the construction site as a handyman. So, we try to cut costs and manage to live on the little he earns.

In my opinion what Give Directly does well is helping others financially. The fact that you send us money without expecting anything in return is so kind of you and may God bless you. The only thing that I thought you should change is to ensure that we all receive the transfers uniformly. For example there are people who have already received their third transfer yet I have only received two of them. This means that some of us are lagging behind by one transfer

I used the first transfer to buy 2 hens worth kshs 600. I have 3 children in grades 8, 6 and 3. So I cleared their school fees arrears using the remaining kshs 600. The second transfer was send around christmas, so I divided it into 3. I spend the kshs 1,000 to buy food for Christmas celebrations. That is 2 packets of 2kg wheat flour, 2 litres of cooking oil, 2kg of sugar,2 packets of yeast and 3 bottles of 300ml soda for my children. I used the second kshs 1,000 to buy 4 packets of 2kg maize flour and 1 hen. I saved the remaining kshs 1,000 for school fees for my 3 children. I do not have a stable job so I do sell coconut and fried Irish potatoes, (locally known as 'viazi karai') to earn a living. The small business cannot even feed my children. I'm so grateful to Give Directly.

I saw the message that I had received money at around 9 am in the morning. I was from fetching water for my home use at home. Getting water is also a hard task since we walk very long distances close to 2 hours to get water. When I got the message I became very happy and started rejoicing.

The money has made a very big difference in my life in that I was able to buy food for my family. I depend heavily on my farm in terms of food and also my source of income. Now that the weather conditions are not favorable it is very hard to grow any type of food there. I am grateful that with the money I was able to buy food for my family.

I received KSH 1200 from GiveDirectly. In my area, the drought has made working on the farm very difficult. So getting food from the farm is impossible now due to the lack of rain. When I got the money I decided to go buy maize. I spent KSH 800 on buying maize and took KSH 50 to pay for the posh mill bill. I then took the remaining KSH 300 and divided it among my two children and paid the amount as school fees in school. Buying the maize was a priority because finding food is becoming very hectic.