My new goal is to start a small shop business selling maize flour and dry fish within the village. With the drought and famine in our village, I will have a ready market something that will earn me a good profit. I will use the income to fund the education of my 8 children. Furthermore, I am planning to repair my house which is collapsing on one side.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly did well in coming up with a cash transfer program. What I feel was done well is the sending of transfers directly to our phones and the fact that it is unconditional and I had the right to decide on how to use it. With all this, I feel there is nothing I can say was not done well.

I spent KES 22,000 of the transfer to start livestock rearing by purchasing 7 goats. I have wished to own livestock which would help me when I encounter a financial emergency. Similarly, it's a long-term investment for my kids, I will be able to sell them to further their studies when they grow up. I also used KES 15,000 to pay off the fee arrears for my 8 children who had a huge fee balance. They were frequently out of school something that kept me worried about their future. For the remaining amount, I bought new clothes for every child and food since I had insufficient food because of the famine that we currently experience.

I learned that I had received my first transfer at around 9 in the morning when I was preparing breakfast for my family. It was truly an exciting moment becasue that was the day we had all been eagerly been waiting for as a family. I can remember we celebrated the whole day for receiving this gift that has now transformed our lives positively.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that through the transfers, I was able to pay school fees for my son who recently joined college. I was very stressed up becasue I had no idea where I would acquire the required cash to aid his further studies. As a single parent, this was a very big challenge becasue I still had eight family members to take care of. I have been running a business (selling a variety of vegetables) whereby in a day I would make a profit of KES 200 but then this was still not enough. My children have been on and off in school and this could affect their academic performance. However, after receiving the money I had to prioritize their education journey since it has laws been my dream to see all my children getting better education considering I never had a chance to go to school. I am thankful to GiveDirectly for the far it has brought me, may God bless the entire organization.

I spent part of my first transfer on buyng new school uniforms for my six children who are in primary schools at a total of KES 5000 . Their previous ones have been worn out and they were even mocked by their friends and this used to lower self-esteem in school. In addition, I bought three mattresses at KES 8700 which were to replace old mats on the floor which was never comfortable. I later cleared school fees of KES 10000 for my son who was stuck because of the huge arrears. In addition, I bought two goats at a total of KES 5700 to serve as the security whenever I experience any emergency. With the remaining amount of money, I am using it in buying enough foodstuffs for my family.