We are living on a 0.5 acre piece of land, this limits our ability to venture into crop farming. I recently leased an acre piece of land from my neighbor where I planted maize crops, I was hoping to have a bumper harvest but ended up counting losses. It was the end of April 2024 when we had a bad experience of flash floods in our community. My crops were totally swept away and our kitchen destroyed. It is devastating that I am still sharing a single room with my three children. This denies me an opportunity to have some privacy with my loved one Salina.

My wife is a trained Early Childhood Development teacher. I kept my hope that one day she will secure employment with the ministry of education and we will have a stable source of family income. I was living in fear that she might end up missing the employment opportunity since her certificates had been delayed for about a year. Surprisingly she was called by Kabarnet Early Childhood Development center in January 2024 that her certificates are ready for collection.

My son was living in a grass thatched house which was made of mud. This was not spared by flash floods which occurred two months ago. His house was totally destroyed and we ended up living together in one house. GiveDirectly's cash transfer will help me to build him a one room house made of iron sheets. This will cost me $ 400 of my transfers. We use water from the river Perkerra to irrigate our farms, this is challenging since I do not have a generator to pump water to my farm. GiveDirectly's cash transfer will help me purchase a generator which will cost about $300. I am dreaming of starting a livestock farm with my transfers from GiveDirectly.