Poultry farming has always sustained most of my family needs.I have a chicken coop and I breed. chicks and sell to any neighbors who need. I have a new goal of starting a general shop in a nearby shopping center hence will operate it during the evening hours.

In my opinion, Givedirectly did well by giving lumpsum of money and giving everyone the freedom to choose on how to spend depending on their needs.

The second transfer came at the time I needed most. I had pending projects. With Kshs. 31,000 I used in purchasing materials that were pending for construction. I am now happy that we already finished and moved in to the house and enjoying. With Ksh. 4,000 I spent in purchasing furniture to make my house neat. I also bought five sheep at a cost of Kshs. 20,000 I can sell them in future to cater for emergencies.

The moment I received the transfer I felt so happy, I remember it was around 9am when I heard a ringtone message from my phone. I was at the farm that time. I reluctantly check it thinking it was just a usually messages from friends. I couldn't believe my eyes, I have never received such amount of money before. I stopped whatever I was doing and rushed home to inform my family. We all celebrated with joy. It was the happiest day of our lives. We planned everything and I went to withdrew the money the same day from the Mpesa agent.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have build two better houses. We used to live in a small house which could not host all the family comfortably. It was so stressful and very demoralizing whenever we had visitors. We could host them outside the house because there was no extra space. We could cook in the same house and sleep in the same house with our children. I depend on small scale farming, I pant maize and beans. The harvest that we get through this is so small. We had no other source of income to buy the building material. When I received the transfer from GiveDirectly we decided to build a better and spacious house. Currently we no longer get stress up on where to host visitors and our family has a good space go sleep. I am so happy because GiveDirectly has changed our living standard.

I spent the money I received from GiveDirectly on building two houses. We used to live in a small house before which could not host all the family comfortably. It was so small and whenever I had visitors it was so stressful because there was no extra space to host them. The rest of the money I bought food for the family. I am so happy because GiveDirectly has changed our living standard to be much better than before.