My husband is very old, and often he falls ill. We currently depend on our children, who work in town as casual laborers. Few days before receiving the money, my husband fell ill, and I had to take him to the hospital where he got admitted. After receiving medical attention for two days, they discharged him from the hospital. I paid medical bill worth KSH 1000 for his two days stay at the hospital. Besides paying the medical bill, I spent the rest of the money in purchasing food. My husband being ill meant that he could not continue with his job of sewing mats and baskets. Having received the money, I had to step in and buy the food so that we do not starve. I am happy that his health is improving after using the money to buy him fruits and other types of food that have boosted his health towards recovery.

Having previously had my husband sick and in need of medication, I was able to receive the 3rd transfer of KES 3000 with which I spent KES 1500 for the aforementioned. We also had some shortage of food produce and I was able to ensure we never slept hungry by using up the balance of KES 1500 to feed the family.

I am quite old and so is my husband, so if it were not for GiveDirectly I am almost sure that handling my grandsons hospital bill would have been a tribulation because we barely have enough for the three of us, so to me the funds seemed like a gift from God because we would have been stressed and stranded so thank you.

Before the transfers came in I had left the village to go to town and visit some of my relatives and unfortunately soon after I received terrible news concerning my grandson who I lived with that apparently he had been involved in an accident since the motorcycle he was riding on had collided with a car and he ended up with a broken leg. He was to be brought to town for medical attention because he also had also lost a lot of blood and since he was my responsibility I paid KES 1,000 for the visit and check ups from the doctor and for the medication and his meals I paid KES 500 for each respectively. Well as for the remainder of the money, I decided to save it for later in case of any emergencies.

I remember that day was a sunday and I had gone to church for morning mass leaving behind my phone at the charging spot where we normally leave them since like most people in the village we do not have electricity in our homes. After church I picked my phone and on my way home I saw the message, I was very much euphoric because I could take care of my financial responsibilities and that of my family.

As for me it would be the mere fact that my family and I will not starve especially my grandchild because I personally do manual jobs from time to time. This includes working on people's farms for minimum wage and recently it has been very dry we are almost experiencing drought so this basically means no rain, no job, no money and eventually starvation. But due to the installments I keep receiving from this project I have been having tremendous help and I thank God that I do not have to see my grandchild go to bed hungry.

After receiving the transfers I mostly focused of nutrition for my family of three which includes me, my husband and my grandchild since all my kids are grown and no longer reside in the village like the rest of us. I opted for food because it was one of the basic needs that we were lacking and I knew after taking care of that at least we would not have to worry about hunger any more. I therefore went ahead and purchased fifty kilograms of maize which went for one thousand five hundred kenyan shillings, I also got ten kilograms of beans which cost five hundred kenyan shillings, sugar was also a part of the list where I acquired five kilograms which was six hundred kenyan shillings and lastly I bought kerosene for the lamps and laundry detergent which cost two hundred kenyans shillings for both.