For the last one year, I have been supplying milk in the school that my children are in to reduce school debt, we used to supply about 20 litres of milk to school every day and in return, the school debt is reduced. Now that I have cleared the debt, I will be using the money from the milk we sell to buy a piece of land to start venturing into food farming or chicken farming. By the end of another year, I hope to have made enough money and finally buy the land we want.

Giving everyone cash and letting us plan it by ourselves was a very good way of solving our financial constraints.

With the second transfers, I used ksh 35000 to pay school fees arrears for my four children in highschool who have been on and off for the whole term but I got to finally clear the debt for all of them and given that they are almost done with school, It really means so much to me to see them settle in school like other students as they finish off. I also bought one more cow with the rest of the transfers to add to the three that I usually have, so that I can increase the supply of milk as I plan for my next business venture.

It was in the morning when I was having breakfast with my family when I thought of checking my phone. I went and got it from where I had placed it the previous night. I unlocked it and I saw that I had a new message. I opened it and wow! I could not believe my eyes when I saw that I had received KES 55000 from GiveDirectly as promised. I was so happy and I immediately showed my wife the piece of good news. She was so happy too and we celebrated together giving thanks to God. We now knew that the plans that we had already made were now going to be fulfilled.

The transfer has brought a big difference in our lives as a family. The situation was tough, especially because we had a child who was joining the secondary school and the other who had completed but had not picked up his certificate due to the arrears. We didn't know where we were going to get the huge sum of money needed and the only option that we had in mind was to sell one of our cows. GiveDirectly transfer however came to our rescue. We are thus happy because our children were able to go to school and we cleared the arrears. We no longer resorted to selling the cow to get money.

We spent our entire recent transfer on paying school fees for our children. We had one who was joining the secondary school and we were being required by the school to clear school fees for the whole academic term. We also had another who recently finished his secondary school studies but he had not picked up his certificate since he still had school fee arrears. Other than the two, we also have two others who are in their third and fourth year of study In secondary school. We managed to clear school fees for the one who recently joined the secondary school and the one who had completed. Getting money for paying school fees has always been our biggest challenge. I am a small-scale mixed farmer. I usually grow maize and sell them to get money. I also rear a few cows and I usually sell some of the milk to also get money for paying school fees. When things are tough, I am usually forced to self a calf to raise money for the school fees. We are thus grateful to GiveDirectly for their big support.