My life is different from how it would have been had I never received the transfer because I am now a proud owner of an extra cow. I believe that it will be calving very soon and my milk production will increase hence I will get more income that I will in turn use in paying school fees for my children. Also, I have been able to build a house for my children. Due to this, they always have a place to sleep in comfortably and do their revision without any disturbances.

GiveDirectly did well by transforming the lives of everyone in our village and I do not see anything that they did not do well.

When I received my second transfer, I spent some amount to build a spacious house for my family. I decided on this so that my children would have a place to sleep comfortably. Also, I bought a solar and battery for lighting purposes in my household. Due to this, my children nowadays do their revision in the evening without any problems. I spent the remaining amount to pay school fees for mg children and to but them some food.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have built a better house for my family. We used to live in small mud house before which could not host all my family members comfortably. I have grown up children and its a taboo in our culture to sleep in one house with them. I always feared to welcome visitors to my house because I did not have a decent house and no space for them. Whenever I had an emergency I would prefer to pitch a tent outside the house for the meetings. My children used to walk during the night to spend a night at their grandmother's house and this was so risky for them in terms of security. Sometimes they could fail to complete their school assignments because of the movement during the night after taking their supper. Their performance in school was going down because of that. Currently, I have a decent house and my children have their own decent room to sleep and do their assignment on time and this has led to performance improvement at school because they no longer miss studying while at home. I no longer fear to welcome visitors to my home because I have enough space to host them. I am so grateful for the support from GiveDirectly that has changed our living standards a great deal.

I felt so happy the moment I received my money from GiveDirectly. I remember it was very early in the morning when I was checking my phone as usual. I could not believe my eyes because I had never received such an amount of money before. I shared the information with my family and they were equally very happy when they learned that we had received some money from GiveDirectly. We then got down to planning in the best way we could spend the money with my spouse.

I used part of my transfer to build a better and more spacious house. The house that we were living in before was too small and mud made one. It was quite uncomfortable staying in this house and I often felt very embarrassed whenever I had visitors in my home. I also used part of my transfer to fence my compound and bring an end to the invasion in my compound from animals and other unwanted visitors that often disturbed our peace. The remaining amount of money was used to buy a heifer, food and clothes for my family.