I do subsistence farming for a living. In the coming year and beyond, I am planning to hire a piece of land as the one I have is smaller in size. I will be hiring labour so as to save on the time wastage. I have been doing it with the help of my family members who are only available in the evenings, and it could take us a whole month to complete an acre of land. In addition to this, I will be opening up a new business of groceries to be operated by my wife. The business will specifically be taking care of the family's basic needs like food and clothing.

I do subsistence farming for a living. I am planning to start up a small business supplying maize to boarding schools. I usually do it although to homesteads on order. In the near future, I will be expanding and mostly the deliveries will be done by the motorcyclist as they will be in large quantities. The profits from the business will be taking care of my kids' school fees.

Before the transfer, I never had a modern house, I owned a small grass-thatched house which was leaking during the rainy season. I thank Give Directly for the transfers as I managed to build a three-bedroom modern house for kshs 50,000. Initially, I never had peace of mind as it was so tiresome moving some of my valuable items during the rainy season, my young boys too never had adequate space to spend their nights and this was so stressful as they could sleep in a neighbour's house. My peace of mind is finally restored since I built a house. Getting a balanced and regular meal had been the most difficult thing for my young family of three. I used the whole balance of kshs 5000 to stock food for an entire month. We are very grateful for the transfers.

It was at 11 pm and I was preparing to go and sleep when I heard my phone vibrate, when I checked, it was an MPESA message from Give directly. I was so happy and couldn't wait for the morning so that I could go and withdraw the funds. We had already discussed and agreed on how to spend the first transfer with my wife.

Purchase of an additional two heifers to my livestock is my greatest joy since this means that I will have enough milk for consumption and also can sell the surplus to cater for school fees for my children who are in school. In addition, clearance of school fee arrears has also brought happiness since my kids are now catching up with what they had previously lost when away from school.

With the long to-do list that we had planned with my wife, our priority was to clear Kshs.5,000 school fee arrears for our child. This has allowed our child to settle well in school without being sent home. I also spent Kshs.35,000 on buying two heifers which in the future will calf and will produce sufficient milk both for consumption and also for economic purposes. With Ksh.10,000 I used to connect electricity to my house hence I no longer use lantern lamps which used to affect my eyes because of too much smoke. With the remaining amount, I spent on buying food for my family members. I am grateful for the great support from Givediectly.