I own a wholesale shop in our neighboring shopping centers. I was lacking a place where to store my stock and I was forced to make purchases twice or thrice a week and it was costly in terms of transportation. When I received my second transfer, I spent a good amount to build a spacious store to be using in storing the stock for my shop. I spent the remaining amount to buy a heifer as a way if investing this money since I will be able to earn income through milk sakes when it reproduces.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly did well by giving us unconditional cash transfers and I do not see anything that they did not do well.

My life is is different from how it would have been had I not received my transfer because I have been able to build a store that I am using to store the stock for my shop. Due to this, I do purchases once in a while and this has helped me in reducing the transportation cost. Also, had it not have been for the transfer, I would not have been able to increase the income from my dairy project. The heifer I bought using my transfer has calved hence an increase in my milk production.

I spent part of the transfer on saving through purchasing a cow and oxen. I bought this so that in the future they can assist to raise school fees for my children. I usually depend on maize farming to raise school fees and sometimes the yield from this is low due to drought and diseases. Having this will assist me sometimes whenever I am faced with this problem. Also, I used the other part of the transfers to complete payment of the land I had purchased earlier on. I want to clear this because the landowner has been pushing much.

It was very early in the morning when I was woken up by message notification. Upon checking the text notification it was transferred from GiveDirectly. I was very happy. I woke up my sons to join me in celebrating this great news.

Completing the payment of a piece of land I had bought earlier on is the biggest difference in my daily life. This is because the landowner has been pushing me so much to complete the payment. I had been prioritizing to pay school fees for my children leaving the issue of land unattended to. It has been giving me a lot of stress but when I called the payment after the transfers, my life has become peaceful once again.