My life is now different in that I own cattle and I now have a better and more spacious and comfortable house for my family and I.

In my opinion, Give Directly has done well in enabling me to educate my children and also in enabling me to purchase and own livestock. I see nothing that Give Directly has done wrong.

I spent my second transfers to build a house for my family and to purchase goats. I did not have a house in my home. We lived in a small and old house that I squeezed with my family. I do construction jobs while my wife is unemployed. Whatever I make from this job is only enough to sustain my family, and so we were forced to bear with the situation of living in that old house that we had. I am happy that my family is now comfortable in the house that I build. I also bought goats with the hope that they will procreate in future and generate wealth for me. I can sell one of the goats should I get an emergency in future.

Owning cows is the biggest difference in my daily life. This is because I feel contented and happy whenever I take them out to graze. They keep me busy too and I no longer waste a lot of time iddling around.

When I woke up I went straight to check on my phone as usual but on this day I was surprised to see two messages blinking on the phone. I got curious, opened the message and to my surprise I had received money from GiveDirectly. It was such an amazing moment, and I was so grateful.

I have never owned a cow in my entire life but I always longed to own one because it was expensive budgeting for milk for family consumption. The moment when I received the first transfer I bought two cows. I believe after they have given birth I'll be able to get enough milk for family consumption thus I won't spend on milk anymore. Other than milk, I'll have extra cows after they'll have given birth and this will an advantage because I'll still have more cows after selling some in the future in order to raise school fee for my children who are still in primary school.