I did not have a new goal I had planned on purchasing a piece of land. This is because we lived on a small piece of land and I had always wished to own a bigger piece of land to do horticulture farming. I am so grateful because I have bought the farm and am ready to start the farming project.

Giving money to the poor in the community is what GiveDirectly does well. Most of the people were able to meet their needs and some invested the money in businesses. I do not find anything that GiveDirectly did not do well.

I spent KES 50,000 on purchasing a piece of land from my neighbor. We lived on a small piece of land before and this was limiting us from engaging in farming. I had a passion for doing horticulture farming but the land was so small. I had always wished to own a bigger piece of land but I did not have the money to buy it. Currently, I have a piece of land and I wish to do horticulture. Due to my old age, I will just direct my children on how and when they do that for me. I am so grateful because I know I will get enough food for the family and even sell the surplus at the market to earn an income to meet other additional basic household needs. I spent the rest of the money on food for the family and household items. I am so grateful for the support because were it not GiveDirectly all this could not have happened.

It was early in the morning after waking up and needed to charge my phone in my son's house since my house is not connected to electricity yet. On giving out my phone to my son, he noticed that there was a message that had just popped up. He had to read it first before switching the phone off. It was the great news from GiveDirectly that sent us celebrating and could not even charge my phone again for the next two hours. I was thankful that the hopes I had been keeping were finally bearing fruits. With my spouse at home that morning, we planned on withdrawing and later send my helper who managed to withdraw and come back home that afternoon.

Even though I obtained a heifer that has not started producing milk yet, I had been feeling grateful that I was able to own livestock at last after rearing a neighbor's one for a long time. I am glad that my husband was of the same idea, and this has brought the biggest difference in my life as I am now hopeful that I will see it grow to give us additional liters of milk soon.

After a discussion with my spouse, we spent KES20000 of our first transfer on obtaining a heifer as we had been dependent on the neighbor's cow that we had been keeping for almost a year now. We had been hoping to start introducing ours as a security in case the neighbors' will be taken back. We also considered obtaining additional foodstuff as the previous harvest was slowly draining on our stores and saved all the remaining amount with the plan of constructing a new house to replace the old hut that we had been dependent on as a kitchen and a living room at the same time. We are now looking forward to the second transfer that we will add to the savings we were left with to facilitate the purchase of the construction materials and the construction work.