Yes we do have a new goal of buying a piece of land. Currently we are staying in a very small piece of land such that we cannot engage fully in farming practices yet it should be the main source of livelihood to us. Now that GiveDirectly has helped us as a family to acquire some of the things that we otherwise thought would not have been achieved, we look forward to accumulating money from the work that we do and be able to buy a piece of land within the next one year.

In my opinion GiveDirectly did very well by enrolling everyone within our village without any bias or discrimination. This has led to uplifting of so many lives of different people and has brough some form of equality within the village. It was even more impressive that they did so without taking any bribes. We are so grateful as a community that we were part of the beneficiaries of the program

We used KES 25000 of the second transfer to buy a dairy cow. We already had one initially but we thought of having an additional dairy cow such that we would be able to have enough milk produced all year round and be able to engage in other meaningful activities such as buying land from the savings made from milk. I used another KES 25000 to buy building materials for our new house. We have been living in a mud house and always looked forward to building a better house and when we received money from GiveDirectly we made a decision to build a blocked house. I am a mother of one and my husband works as a security officer and the amount of income that we received from our work would not be enough to put up one before. We are so happy that we fibally got to afford to buy building materials and we are looking forward to building our new house soon.

It was around midday and I had just taken my cattle for grazing at a nearby forest. I had seen people happy and rushing to the nearby mpesa shops earlier that morning. I did not bother to check my phone but when I checked and confirmed that I had received money from GiveDirectly, I felt so happy. Straight away I called my husband and shared the good news with him and he was equally happy. I could not get over the fact that I was finally going to be able to fence my compound and bring to an end the conflicts that always arose due to livestock invading neighbours compounds and causing disturbance!.

GiveDirectly has brought significant change in my life and that of my family. Having fenced my compound has seen me be at peace with my neighbours. I was always at loggerheads with my neighbors due to my chicken invading their garden and resulting to losses. Right now I am at peace and I have been able to add more chicken in my farm. I am looking forward to collecting more than 25 eggs per day and bringing about change in living standards for my family. This investment will also see me be more self reliant and even support my husband in running other major family errands.

I used KES 25000 to fence my compound. It is something that I had always desired to do to be able to bring an end to conflicts that always arose whenever my chicken invaded neighbours compounds. Chicken rearing was a passion to me but had to sell quite a number of my chicken to reduce conflicts that had disturbed my peace a lot. I am happy that my compound is now fully fenced and I have been able to increase the number of chicken that I rear to more than 50 up from only 10 that I had before. I used KES 20000 to buy a dairy cow and the remainder was used to buy food and clothing for my children.