My life is different than how it would have been had I not received the transfer because I no longer buy milk anymore. Due to this, I am able to save the money I would otherwise use in buying milk. In addition, I have been able to clear this year's school fees for my grandchild and I am glad that she will not be sent back home this year.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly does well by giving out financial aid and I do not see anything that they do not do well.

I spent KES 12,000 from my transfer to pay school fees for my grandchild. I stettled on this since she had been sent back home and I did not have any other money to give her. Also, I spent KES 35000 in improving my house into a semi permanent and fixing steel door for security purposes. With this, cleaning my house is now easier and less time consuming.

I was at the farm and I was about to complete the day’s work when I heard an SMS alert on my phone. I stopped to check it and I could believe not what I saw. It was the M-Pesa SMS saying that we had received the transfer from GiveDirectly. I was filled with a lot of happiness after seeing this. I started hearing some of my neighbors celebrating and saying that they had received the transfer. I now believed that it was true. I hurriedly finished up what I was doing and went back home happy because I knew that I was finally going to achieve my dreams. I gave thanks to God for this. I then informed one of my grandchildren in the evening when she got back from school and she so happy to hear this that she jumped up with joy.

The transfer has brought a big difference in my life and that of my family. I have been able to buy the cow that I have always desired. This cow will enable us to get milk for our consumption and we can sell some. The money that I get from the sales, I will be able to use on other things such as paying school fees. Having built a kitchen, I can now comfortably prepare meals for my family. I will no longer be rained on and be beaten by the cold wind as I do so. The people’s donkeys no longer come to my compound and hence there are no more destructions. I have also been able to spray the crops on the farm against the destructive insects and hence they are doing well. Thank you GiveDirectly for coming through for me at the time when I had lost hope of ever doing the above.

This transfer from GiveDirectly has helped me a lot. I was able to buy a cow, fence my piece of land, build a kitchen house and I bought an insecticide for spraying the crops on the farm. The reason why I decided to use the money on the above especially to buy a cow and build the kitchen house, is because I have always wanted to do so for quite a long time and also because these are the things that I have always needed the most. I usually buy milk for my family’s consumption and it is costly. I have a make-shift kitchen that I had set it up beside the main house and covered with polythene bags. I have been using it as my kitchen and at times when it rains, it rains in it and hence it becomes hard to light up the fire and it is also cold to stay there cooking. I also wanted to fence my compound because I live by the roadside and people’s donkeys’ usually come to my compound and they end up causing some destructions. As much as I have always desired to do the above, I have not been in a position to do so due to lack of money. I am a widow and I have been struggling with payment of my children’s school fees with the little money that I have been getting. I had never gotten such a large sum of money before and hence I thank GiveDirectly for this.