Next year, I intend to purchase a cow for $20 as an investment and for milk production to produce revenue to supplement my income from casual labor. I plan to use my savings from the merry-go-round group to achieve this goal.

I am grateful to GiveDirectly for considering me for their financial support, which allows me to satisfy my basic needs. Furthermore, offering everyone an equal transfer was a wonderful thing because it makes everyone feel happy.

I am a member of a merry-go-round group that came into existence when we began benefiting from GiveDirectly. We started the group for savings and financial empowerment purposes. We are a group of eighteen people paying $12 monthly. Through my most recent transfer, I was able to pay my subscription on time. I used $10 from the transfer to buy five two-kilogram cans of maize for my family to keep us from going hungry. With 10 people in the house, I expect the maize to last us at least a week. Having a sufficient stock of maize relieves me of the pressure of spending additional money on food during this tough economic time. To lessen my financial burdens and thus give myself peace of mind, I added the remaining $7 to my savings and paid my daughter's secondary school tuition. She is currently in the second grade.

In the coming year and beyond, my plan is to buy a dairy cow for milk production. I will be able to sell milk or the calves when in need of money especially when in need of paying school fees for my eight children. My other plan is to educate all my children to higher levels of education. I will be able to achieve all this through the reliable GiveDirectly's transfer. Thanks so much GiveDirectly for the financial support.

In my opinion what I love about GiveDirectly is uplifting the living standards of all of us in the village. The fact that everyone is given the freedom to use the money to carter for different pressing needs is amazing. I have seen people paying school fees for their children and even buy household items. Actually their is nothing that went wrong which I can talk about at the moment.

Having joined a merry go round group a few years ago after I started receiving the transfers, I have accomplished a lot and therefore I decided to continue saving this year. The last one helped me pay KES 13000 as school fees for my son in high school. When I got my recent transfer, I saved KES 1200 in the merry go round group. I am glad that I did this on time, thanks to GiveDirectly. I also managed to buy maize for my family of 10 people which really cushioned us from the current hunger season.