My new goal is to plaster the house and the shop that I managed to build with the transfers. I would also like to buy two more calves and more chairs for my house. I was not able to finish the construction because the money was not enough. Plastering needs a lot of bags of cement which is expensive and the money was no longer enough. I decided to build the shop because I have a plan to start a posho mill business. I usually do casual work of farming and selling goods for people at the market to earn a living. The money that I get paid is little and it is only enough to buy food for my three children and pay for merry-go-round contributions in the self-help group that I am in. I hence would like to start a sustainable business of my own and hence I will no longer have to work for others. I would like to buy more calves to add to the cow that I bought with the transfer. I didn't have a cow before. If I manage to add more, then they are going to be of great help to me in the future, most especially with the children's school fees.

GiveDirectly did well because they uplifted the lives of the neediest in the village with the transfers that they gave them. This is because most of them built houses, bought livestock, etc. They thus made everyone in the community to be at the same level. I do not see anything that went wrong and I hence urge them to continue with the good work.

I spent my entire recent transfer doing the finishing on the house that I had managed to build with part of the first transfer. I decided to build the house because I only had one grass-thatched house. I wanted to be like my neighbors who have iron-roofed houses. It has always been my wish to build one, but due to my financial status, I was not able to. So when GiveDirectly came with this program in our community, I saw the perfect opportunity to finally fulfill my dream. I am hence so much grateful to GiveDirectly for their big support.

I had gone out to do some casual work in a nearby town, and as I was going about with the job, I heard my phone which was in my pocket ringing. I wondered what it was all about and I stopped to check it. I could not believe my eyes when I saw that it was an SMS saying that I had received the lump sum transfer of KES 55000. I was so happy to see this that I left whatever I was doing for a while. I gave thanks to God as I meditated about how the money was going to transform my life.

The transfer has brought a very big difference in my life. I was able to make the step of starting my own business since the money enabled me to construct the business premise where I plan to set up a posho mill. Once the business starts operating, it is going to be of great help to me and my family. I will hence no longer have to go out looking for casual jobs to do.

I spent most of the transfer money on constructing a small business premise. I decided to construct the premise because I wanted to start my own business. I do not have a stable source of income, I usually engage in doing casual jobs to earn a living. I hence plan to set up a posho mill. Although I had always wanted to start a business of my own, I was not in a position to because I didn't have the money. The money that I usually get from doing the casual jobs most of it usually goes to the payment of school fees for my two brothers and my two children. I have a single parent and I had decided that I will be helping her in payment of school fees for my two siblings, one who recently joined the university and the other who is still in secondary school. I am hence therefore grateful to GiveDirectly for the great help that they have given to me. I plan to use the next transfer on buying the posho mill machine.