The transfers enables me to build a decent house for my family. Because of this, we now enjoy our privacy and my house is big enough and I can my neighbors children and come and sleep over at my house. Also it enabled me to do some farming on time and I am now hoping that I will have a good harvest that will last us till the next harvesting season.

GiveDirectly does well by giving people cash transfers so that they can decide on how to spend them and I do not see anything that they did not well.

I spent KES 30000 from my second transfers to pay school fees for my children. I settled on this so that they would continue with their studies without any interruptions. Also, I spent some amount on farming. I bought all the necessary farm inputs and hired a tractor for land preparation purposes. I spent the remaining amount to buy food, decent clothes and bedding for mg family to replace the old ones that we had.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have built a better hand spacious house for my family. I used to live in a small mud house which was leaking from the inside. It was a big problem during the rainy season because it was leaking from the inside, We used to stay in one corner of the house where it was not leaking until when the rain was over. I feared to welcome visitors to my house because the house was in bad condition. There was no space and no seats. At times when I had my siblings, I used to make a tent outside the house to host them there as we discuss family issues. Currently, I have a better and spacious house. I no longer fear to welcome visitors to my house and We are no longer exposed to cold. I am so happy because GiveDirectly has completely changed my living standards from grass-thatched house to an iron sheet roofed house.

I felt very happy the moment I received GiveDirectly transfers. I heard my phone ring and it was a message notification. It was quite unusual for my phone to ring especially at such times of the night. I quickly checked to confirm the contents of the message and I was quite amused when I saw that I had received some good amount of money from GiveDirectly. I was happy because there and then I knew that my dream of building a bigger, better house would now be a reality. My children too were very happy since they had known how hard I worked to make extra income that would allow me to build a new house but always unsuccessful.

I spent part of my first transfer to build a better and more spacious house for my beloved family. For a long time, we had lived in a small grass-thatched house and this often made me feel like I had failed in my primary responsibilities of providing the basic needs like shelter. I also used part of the transfer to pay school fees for my son who is in college and the rest of the money was used to buy food for the family.