My life is different than it would have been if I never received the transfer since my dream of building a bigger and better house has materialized. I have been struggling in vain to raise funds for building another since the one that we had was a bit small and less presentable. Thus, I greatly appreciate the timely financial boost that I received from GiveDirectly. We have gained sufficient space and more prestige from the new house.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly does well in the way it engages with the community through community barazas (meetings) which enlightened us a lot. Accordingly, most of my neighbors and myself endorsed GiveDirectly's programs. Still, I greatly adore the way GiveDirectly enrolls its beneficiaries. The firm employs varied strategies to ensure that no impostor is enrolled, while ensuring that all the genuine and eligible villagers are enrolled.

I spent 12000 KES of my second transfer on acquiring iron-sheets that would be used in building our new house. Besides, I used 3000 KES on buying nails for the construction project. Still, I purchasing timber worth 7000 KES as raw materials for the house. Moreover, I purchased some household items including sugar, maize and tea leaves at 1000 KES. Finally, I saved 30000 KES for future use.

The biggest difference in our daily life is that we now have more income generated for the family. We can afford most of the things that we considered luxurious before and living a very happy life. We have enough milk from our dairy cow that has enabled us have plenty of food for the family and surplus is left for sale earning us more income from the family.

I was with my husband when I heard a ringtone from my phone that meant there was a message notification. On trying to find out where the message was from, I could not believe what I saw. It was a message from GiveDirectly and I told my husband that we had just received KES 55000 from GiveDirectly. My husband was so happy. It is then that I realized that my phones battery was running low. I quickly excused myself and ran to the nearest Mpesa shop to withdaw the money lest it would disappear.

I used KES 25000 to buy a dairy cow for the family. For a long time we have had to buy milk from the neighbors since we did not have our own cow. When we got our first transfer, I persuaded my husband to consider buying a dairy cow for the family so that we put an end to the milk shortage in our home. This, we did and we now have enough milk to feed the family and the surplus we sell it to make family income. KES 30000 was used by my husband to buy a brand new motorcycle. My husband has been working as a motorcyclist where he was hired by a different person. This gave him very little income that was hardly enough to put food on the table for the family. Getting a motorcycle will enable my husband to be self employed and hence get more income for the family. We are just so indebted to GiveDirectly transfers.