With the help of GD transfers, I have managed to venture into agriculture such as tomato farming and poultry keeping as an extra source of income. Such kinds of projects require a lot of money to set up which I would not be able to do on my own considering my previous low-income. I was also able to renovate my mother's house which is now as good as new, all thanks to these transfers.

I love the fact that GD cares enough to know what we spend our transfers on. Knowing that GD staff will make a follow up on the transfers expenditure pushes recipients to spend the money on important items and prevents misuse which would be greatly witnessed without the follow-up due to the unconditional nature of transfers. I have no negative comment on GD functions because all I have witnessed so far is pure professionalism and lack of bias which is a rare thing in Kenya these days.

My mother was previously living in a mud house which she could no longer keep in good condition through occasional smearing due to her old age. I decided to use some of my second transfer to renovate the entire house by plastering it. This has now made it easier for her as she no longer has to worry about buying the soil and struggling to smear the house on her own. I spent some of the money on household goods such as a sound system, personal items such as clothes and lost the rest through theft by a visiting relative who knew my M-pesa pin.

I was jobless, hopeless, and almost give up in life, but now I supply broilers to the local hotels around and I get more order that would force me to look for other sources. I will be harvesting my one acre tomato farm, and due to high market demand, I hope to fetch good profit.

The moment I received money I was happy and optimistic towards my future success. I graduated with Diploma in Animal Husbandry, but I have not been employed yet. Now I am proud to proclaim that if anybody put the transfer into good use, he would able to come out of bondage of poverty.

I started two projects funded by GiveDirectly transfer. One was poultry project, the other one was horticultural project, that is tomato farming. Before that, I had a plan for such like projects before because of market demands in our area, but I did not have capital. I tried to apply for Youth Development fund, a program initiated by Ministry of Youth in our country, but this could not yield any fruit. When I received this cash, the first thing that rung in my mind, was starting these projects, and I have disposed my first lot of broilers and fetched good money out of it.