I intend to keep growing my business more to make it a wholesale.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly did a great job in our village and even in other villages that it has been before ours. I am glad that they were open to everyone in explanation of the program details and knowledge conveyance right from the Baraza, in-house visits, registration calls, and even follow-up calls after the transfers. I was also impressed by the encouragement on the wise spending as this was taken seriously as evidenced by the outcome. We were enrolled without bias giving residents a chance to drastically improve their living standards.

There had been a fire outbreak at my place of work which took away my business. I was stressed and worried of how to revive it. When I got my second transfer, I knew that was my first priority to do and so I rented another premises and set up my business afresh using all the transfer.

I can still remember vividly it was exactly 6 PM when I was preparing an evening meal for my family when my mobile phone started ringing so loudly. I was a bit nervous and I even had to stop the task I was up to and check the incoming messages. Upon reading the texts, I realized that they were from Segovia Technology informing me that I had finally received my transfers. I was overwhelmed with joy and decided to share the news with the rest of my family members who were also around. We started dancing and celebrating this precious gift in our life knowing that it will erase all the difficulties we have been through.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now have peace of mind. This is because of the pressure that I have experienced from my landlord concerning the fire incident that had occurred earlier on. I did not have any freedom or happiness since he has always been asking when I will be cleaning the costs. It was such a stressful moment in my life because I did not know how and where I would get the money needed to cover all this. The little I could earn from my daily hustle could only cater for the family's daily bread and nothing more. However, I was always optimistic that someday this shall come to an end. God heard my cry and today the story is different, I was able to settle debts and I no longer have to worry about all the harassment again and as a woman, this has restored my dignity.

I spent a huge portion of my first transfer on settling a debt. I, therefore, bought some building materials which include iron sheets, building poles, nails, timber, and catered for the labor costs. This was purposely for the compensation of the damages that were caused by the fire incident on the building that I had rented. I am so happy that for now I no longer have the burden like before. With the remaining amount of money, I bought foodstuffs like maize flour, cereals, vegetables, and cater for some other household items that I was lacking.