Before my husband would borrow a loan at times to sustain the business during hard times. Now we are so happy that he has enough capital to run the livestock trading business with less struggle. All the profit he makes we spent on buying food, paying school fees and to cater to other family necessities which we couldn't afford before.

At my age, I had never seen such an organization like Give Directly which has a mission to change livelihoods of the poor. They did amazing work by enrolling everyone in our village. which has seen the lives of the residence improve to another level. Ther is none which I can say Give Directly didn't do well as their operations are very transparent.

My husband has been carrying out livestock trading business which has been helping us to meet our daily needs. Previously, he would be forced to spend part of his capital to meet family needs and would make him secure loans. When we got our second transfers, we only spend KES 10000 to buy a heifer and the rest of the money as capital for what he does. Now we have seen good income as the profit he makes he spend on buying us food and paying school fees for the children.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that we have boosted our business that we were doing before we received the money. My spouse used to borrow money from friends and relatives to conduct his business of buying cows and selling at the market at a slightly higher price to earn a profit to support our family in meeting the basic needs. This activity was not easy because sometimes there were no profits and sometimes he could not get the money from friends. Lack of capital in any other business can stop the continuity of that project. Sometimes there were losses and my spouse could get a lot of pressure from the relatives who he had borrowed the money from and this was stressing us all as a family. Currently, my spouse is at peace of mind and his business is doing great he no longer gets pressure and all the profits that he gets from the business are not shared among the friends like before. We have started some saving culture to gather for the emergency and school fees for our children. We are so happy because our living standard has changed compared to the previous one that we had.

I felt so happy when I received money from GiveDirectly. I had never received such an amount of money before in my entire life let alone the fact that I did not have to pay back. I remember very well early in the morning that day when I checked my phone like I usually did every morning. I could not believe that I had indeed received a sum of KES 55000 from GiveDirectly. I shared the good news with my spouse and children and they were equally happy to hear this. We knew that this money was going to change our living standards in a very special way.

I spent part of my first transfer to buy a heifer, clothes and food for the family. The remaining amount was used to boost my spouse's business of selling cows. This was in a bid to try and increase the income that we get as a family and improve our living standards out of this.