In a few months to come, I am hoping to invest more in livestock( cows and goats). I believe they will not only be of help when settling any financial challenge in my household but also, they will empower me to take all my children to school. This has been the major challenge that I am facing and I believe once I will be able to have a good number of them, my children will no longer stay at home due to the arrears as before.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly does well by sending unconditional cash transfers to our Mpesa accounts directly. This was the best idea ever because we never experience bribery or theft cases as a result. From the previous experience we had with them previous organisations I felt this was the safest. I therefore can't mention anything that they need to rectify, all went well.

I spent around $300 of my second transfer on paying fees for my daughter who is in her final year in secondary school. Being my first child to graduate from high school, it still feels like a miracle to me. This is because, she has been studying with so many distractions since I couldn't afford to pay the fee at once, considering I relied on odd jobs and I had some other basic needs to fulfil for my other children. I am therefore praying to God to guide her through and excel for the sake of her tomorrow. Also, I bought a dairy cow and four goats that I am keeping in my compound. I am convinced that soon I will have many of them and achieve my other goals. To add that, in case I experience any financial hiccup I will be in a position to sell some and settle the matter. With the remaining amount of money bought food for my family and other household commodities.

I was relaxing in my house after completing my morning job of charcoal preparation. It was around 9 o'clock when got message notification in my phone. I felt very happy after recognizing it was the transfer I had expected to receive.

The biggest difference in my life is that I now have proper shelter and live a happy life with my family. Previously, the house that I had was leaking and I would spent whole night awake due to the condition roof. Through the transfer, I will no longer spend a lot of money repairing my house every year because I was able to construct an iron roofed house.

I spent the transfer to construct a two-roomed house for my family. Previously, the house that we had was very small, grass-thatched and leaks during rain season. We have been depending on charcoal selling for livelihood and the income from this activity was not enough to support our basic needs like food,education for the children and to construct a better shelter for the family. I also, used $150 to educate my 3 children, one is in secondary school and others are in primary. In addition, I bought sufficient foodstuffs with remaining amount .