My life is different from how it would have been had I not received the transfer because I now earn income from my transportation business. I use my donkeys to ferry goods from one destination to another and I at times lease it to someone I trust that he can take good care of them. Due to this, I have been able to pay my children's school fees on time.

GiveDirectly did well by giving us financial support that we were able to use to uplift our living standards and I do not see anything that they did not do well.

When I received my second transfer, I spent part of it to buy some building materials. I am intending to use these materials to build a more permanent house for my family. I had bought a donkey using my first transfer and when I received the second transfer, I bought another donkey so as to make it a pair. I will be using this pair for transportation purposes in our locality. Also, I spent some amount to bug a heifer. I believe that it will be calving soon and my family will have enough milk for our consumption. I spent the remaining amount to pay school fees for my children who had been sent back home.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have financed my compound to look decent and to ensure that my cow are enclosed. I used to get many complains from my neighbors because my cows used to destroy their crops. This was bringing daily conflicts which led to misunderstanding and poor relations between us. I depend on small scale farming to earn an income. The money I could get through this was a small amount of money which could not enable me to buy wire for fencing. I could look after the cows and this was preventing me from doing other chores at home. When I received my first transfer I fenced all the compounds. Nowadays I no longer get complains from my neighbors that my cows had destroyed their crops, we have started to relate so well and we are living happily together. I have enough time to attend to other activities at home. I am so happy because GiveDirectly has made me relate well with my neighbors and we share a lot with them.

The moment when you received your money I felt so happy because I have never received such an amount of money before. I remember it was very early in the morning when I was checking my phone as usual. I got a message confirming that I have received 55000 Ksh from GiveDirectly. I felt so happy. I immediately inform my spouse and children and they were so happy and we really celebrated that very morning.

I spent my first transfer to buy poles and wire and fenced my compound to look so decent, I also bought, bed, farm inputs, clothes, food, sky blast, layers marsh, pay workers, a wire mesh planning to build a poultry house and the rest of the money I used it to buy a donkey for transport.