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I spent 35,000KES on buying 2 goats and a cow, 2,800KES on buying 4 plastic chairs, and a cupboard @8,000KES.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life.
I now own items that I have been unable to buy, I feel happy.
Initial Payment
Transfer Amount
10000 KES ($99 USD)
access_time over 8 years ago
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What did you spend your first transfer on?
I spent 5500 KES of my token payment on a sheep and the remaining 4500 KES on daily household budgets like food.
What are you planning to spend your upcoming transfer on?
I want to build a bigger house of 29 iron sheets with the whole of my upcoming lumpsum payment.
Enrolled
access_time almost 9 years ago
What are you planning to spend your transfer on?
We plan to spend the transfer to start a business that would provide us with income. We also plan to spend the transfer to buy livestock. We also plan to spend the transfer to buy household items like furniture and beddings being that we currently sleep on a mat on the floor.
What is the achievement you are proudest of?
Our proudest achievement is that we have been able to build a house for the family.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
The biggest hardship that we have faced in life is that we don't have a reliable source of income thereby making life to be unbearable at times. We depend on quarrying for income but this has peak and off peak hours.
What is the happiest part of your day?
The happiest part of my day is in the evening when am having dinner with my family.
