My life is different from how it was if I would have never received the transfer in that, I have accomplished some of the goals that have brought peace in my heat. I love the way my compound is fenced. Maybe I could not have managed to fence it to date. I also bought a calf that I had sold due to financial constraints. A least I have brought it back to the mother. This simply means that my investment have increased.

I like the way GiveDirectly gave out unconditional cash transfer. This gave us the power to tackle our problems well. The unique thing that I also observed was that they discriminate against an individual. There is nothing that I can point out that they did not do well.

Fencing my compound had been giving me a headache just because I needed my place fenced but I did not know where to get money for the project. A breakthrough came when I got my second transfer. I have already fenced my compound and wants to start a mega poultry project. Before then, I did not even think of the project because the few birds that I have sometimes go to people's farms which brought a bad relationship with a few of my neighbors. After this move, I know that things will be okay. Apart from that, I also bought a calf. This particular calf meant a lot to me. I had sold it to a close neighbor when I had no money to pay school fees for my child. Bringing it back means that it is suckling well since I sold it and detached it from the mother earlier than usual. I also kept some as savings hoping to buy another cow and fence the whole of the compound.

I had been called to start to work the following month in a different county before receiving my transfers. My spouse and I had already started planning to take a loan to facilitate my relocation process. When I received my transfers, we had to cancel the loan we had applied so that we would not have to pay the interest. Being able to relocate to my new place of work without taking a loan is the biggest difference in my daily life. Also, my transfers enabled me to relocate with my children since they are still young as it would have been inconveniencing had I left them with their father.

It was still early in the morning when I received a message notification indicating that I had received money from GiveDirectly. I could not sleep anymore as I was so happy. I knew that I would be able to settle in my new place of work without taking a loan.

When I received my first transfer, the first thing I did was to give thanks to God for His blessings through GiveDirectly. For this reason, I gave out KES 5000 as a tithe. I depend on dairy farming to earn a living since horticultural farming has proven unprofitable due to climate changes and infestation by pests and diseases on the crops. Due to this, I bought a dairy cow worth KES 30000 as a way of expanding my dairy project. Before receiving my transfers, I had been called to start working in Transmara and it is far from my home. Due to this reason, I used the remaining amount to relocate to this place. I paid my two months house rent, bought the required items and new school uniforms for my children as I had to transfer them to a different school.