My life has changed alot because I constructed a nice iron roofed house. I also purchased enough food stock like cassava and household items like clothes, and a solar panel for lighting at night. In addition to these, I hired a farm land for commercial rice growing. This will earn me income to support my family. In the past, I could not afford to purchase food and most of the household items due to lack of money. More so it never crossed my mind that I would construct an iron roofed house. The cash transfer has saved me from worries and tension that I had due to lack of enough money.

In my opinion GiveDirectly has done well to save people from poverty through giving them cash transfers. The cash transfers have enabled me construct an iron roofed house. On the otherhand, I cannot specifically point out any wrong doing that GiveDirectly has done.

I spent part of my second transfer to purchase 14 iron sheets and 6 bags of cement for constructing my house. I bought a 10 watts' solar panel and battery for lighting at night. I also hired a piece of land for rice growing. I gave my spouse a portion of the transfer to purchase household items like clothes.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that, I and my family are always smiling because this money has helped us start the construction of a better structure than we are currently staying in.

The moment I received the money, I recall by then I was admitted in the hospital due to Malaria. My wife brought for me the phone with the message on the sick bed and when I saw it, I felt my health had improved that very moment because of the good news of the transfer.

I spent my first transfer to commence the construction of my permanent house. I bought building materials like iron sheets, nails, bricks, timber and also paid builders with the very money.