Yes I have a new goal of paying school fees for my three children who are in secondary, college, and university respectively. When I received my first and second transfer I was able to clear their arears and I remained with a little amount of money that helped me boost my small restaurant business that I run at a nearby centre. Initially I used to make at least KES 500 per day from this business an amount that would provide me with just enough to buy food for my children and nothing at all to save. I am happy that with the boost that I received from GiveDirectly I now make up to KES 1500 per day which is way too much and enought to save and be able to pursue other needful investments for my family. I am a single mother of three and my priority right now is to see to it that my three children will be able to clear their education without much difficulties. I know for sure that I will be able to accomplish this goal with the booming restaurant business that I currently run. All these is because of GiveDirectly and I am so grateful for it.

In my opinion GiveDirectly did well in giving us the money unconditionally and without bias. This gave people like me the freedom to use the money in businessgenerating activies and brought a total change in our lives. We are excited as a family that we will be able to enjoy the results of this aid going forward. On the other hand I only got concerned that a huge lot of single people were left behind without enrollment.

I used KES 20000 to pay school fees for my three children who are in various schools and used another KES 30000 to build two of my children a house they will be sleeping in whenever they are home. The remaining amount of money helped me improve my business. I chose to pay school fees since I had strained a lot before receiving these transfers and had huge school fees arears as well in school. I am now a happy and more relaxed mother knowing better that I have paid one term ahead for all my three children. It has been a struggle paying their school fees now that I am a single mother and the small restaurant business that I run has been giving us very little amount of money daily. too little to even save for payment of school fees. I am however happy that with the boost from GiveDirectly we will be able to pay their school fees and give them an easy time in school.

It was 11:30 pm and I had gone to sleep. I was not deep in sleep since I could still hear a few noises here in there. Suddenly, my phone rang notifying me of a new message. I decided to check it and I could not believe it when I read the SMS which was bearing the good news of having received the promised transfer from GiveDirectly. I was so happy upon seeing this that I lost my sleep. I thanked God and GiveDirectly for blessing me with such a huge sum of money that I had never received before.

The transfer has brought a big difference in my life and that of my family. I was able to clear the big school fees arrears that I still had for my two children. I didn't know where I was going to get the money to do so but I thank GiveDirectly for the help that they gave me. My children can now relax and study well without worrying about being sent home for the rest of the academic year.

I spent my transfer money on paying school fees for my two children and improving my business. I spent KES 21000 on clearing the huge school fees arrears that I had. I also spent KES 3000 on buying a pressure cooker and KES 15000 on constructing a shade for the hotel. The remaining amount, I used in buying foodstuffs for my family, that is, maize and rice. The construction of the shade and buying the pressure cooker for the hotel business was my biggest aim upon receiving the transfer. I wanted to buy the pressure cooker so that I could prepare some of the foods that take too long to cook faster. I have been sleeping late waiting for the food to cook. I also wanted to build the shade so that my customers can have a nice place to relax and take their food without worrying about being rained on. I was not able to do the above as I had wished for because I didn't have the money to do so. The money that I was making from my hotel business most of it used to go to the purchase of food and payment of school fees for my two children. I have hence not had enough to save up. With having bought the pressure cooker, I no longer sleep late like before. My customers are able to relax well and take their food upon building the shade. I am hence so much grateful to GiveDirectly for their support.