We check in with people at each stage of the cash transfer process to see how things are going. Take a look at some of their stories as they appear here in real-time.
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Describe the moment when you received your money. How did you feel?
I felt so happy the moment I received money from GiveDirectly. I was at home and it was around 7:00pm when I was preparing supper. I saw the message around that time and I did not share the information with anyone in the family except for my husband and my children.
Describe the biggest difference in your daily life since you started receiving payments from GiveDirectly.
The investments that I made with the money some things would have to wait since I am so much preoccupied with paying school fees for my two children in secondary school
What did you spend your most recent transfer(s) on?
I used KES 20000 to buy a dairy cow and used the remaining amount to pay school fees Kes 10000 Kes 12000 to buy furniture and the remainder was used to buy food and other basic household needs. I made a decision to buy livestock since we did not have one and yet this is a great investment one can have. We normally rely on farming to make income which is sometimes hard to accumulate enough.
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What does receiving this money mean to you?
I have a child in highschool and paying school fees has been a problem to me. I need to offset a balance of KES 30,000 to safe my child from being send home frequently. I also need to buy a few cows as a plan to do beef cow production. We have a forest near our place which is good grazing place for cows. We are over joyed that Give Directly money will help us achieve our goals.
What is the happiest part of your day?
My younger child was admitted to grade one in April this year. Being our last born it was a great joy seeing her join grade one.
What is the biggest hardship you've faced in your life?
Low output of maize in our area because of unpredictable weather patterns is a challenge for us. We don't have enough maize for consumption forcing is to buy at an expensive rate of KES 4,000 per sack. With a large family of family children, we spent much on food
