My new goal is to be able to accumulate enough money and be able to start a cereal selling business. How I intend to actualize this is through the proceeds from poultry keeping project that I was able to start. The cereal selling business will see me make extra income from it that will help in running the affairs of my family. Cereal selling business is a very lucrative form of business that I can afford.

In my opinion GiveDirectly did well in making sure that there was a meeting to train us on where the money was from, ways in which we could use the money and how much we were expecting. This was a great eye opener for a of us and it formed the basis of how we were going to spend the money. On the other hand, I never saw or found anything that I thought could have been done better. To me everything was done in a perfect way.

I used KES 4000 to pay school fees for my four children and used another KES 26000 to buy a dairy cow. Another KES 10000 was used to start poultry keeping project The remaining amount was used to buy food and other basic household needs for my family. The decision to start a poultry keeping project was because this is a much more affordable project that will help me and my family in meeting costs of basic household needs. It is also a project that is very easy to manage. livestock keeping too is one of the main economic activities that people do engage in here and having one extra dairy will see us as a family have more milk produced and help us at the end of the day to ease the cost of living.

I still remember vividly that it was 6.36 pm when I saw a Mpesa message on my phone. I thought that it was fraudsters at first and after checking severally, I indeed confirmed that it was a Mpesa message from GiveDirectly. I immediately called my spouse so that he would also come and confirm my doubts. Everyone in my family became so happy after clearing the doubts that I had and confirming the good news. Our children were the happiest, and despite being late at night, they kept on urging me to call GD and inform them how grateful we were.

There's a big change in my daily life ever since I received my transfer. I used to own four chicken and I rarely had vegetables for consumption since they would feed on them. With the transfer, I was able to build a poutry house and this is where I feed them from. Because of this, I have seen a major change in my vegetable garden since my family now have enough vegetables for consumption and I sometimes sell and earn income that I use in buying some basic needs that we need for ourselves.

I am a housewife and we depend on my spouse who makes around KES 400 a day, and this is usually not enough to pay school fees for our three children in school and food for a family of six. We were heading towards a festive season and our children had started inquiring when we would buy for them new clothes and shoes. Despite not having money, we always encouraged them to be patient as we would soon buy for them. I am grateful that GiveDirectly's transfer came at the right time and we were able to spend KES 10000 on clothing and KES 14000 on one sack of maize, rice, cooking fat, and other kinds of food after spending KES 3000 to pay for their school fees. Our chickens have been sleeping in the kitchen and we usually find our items all messed up in the morning. Since I was planning to expand my poultry project using the second transfer, I decided to spend KES 20000 to build a poultry house and KES 6000 on solar and battery for lighting purposes and charging phones.