I wish to devote much of my time to farming, I will plant maize and sweet potatoes. I can get enough food for the family and even sell the surplus to earn some income. This will be my main priority this coming years.

GiveDirectly does well in that it gives money to the community's poor to improve their living standards. Most people invested money in viable projects because they were trained well. I do not find anything that GiveDirectly did not do well, Everything went smoothy as planned.

I spent $350 on purchasing a dairy cow, This is because I used to buy milk daily and it was so costly for me. I was so happy because I knew I would cut the daily cost of buying milk, but unfortunately, the cow felt sick and died. I spent $100 on purchasing two goats, Goats reproduce twice per year and help whenever there is an emergency since they can be sold faster. I will sell the young ones to buy a dairy cow. The remaining amount of money I spent on purchasing food, clothes and household items. I am so happy because GiveDirectly has changed our standard of living.

The moment I received my transfer, I was at home preparing dinner, that was when I heard my phone ringing, upon checking I saw a Mpesa notification showing that I heard received a sum of KES 55,000, this was the happiest day in my life, while I was still in excitement, my helper came in to inform me that she too had received her transfer, it was a day like no other and the excitement was written all over our faces, we then embarked on planing on where and how we would cash out the money.

The biggest difference in my life today is that I can afford to walk with my head high, this is because I have managed to build a decent house for my family, the 8 of us used to share one room in a grass thatched house, which was a real nightmare, it was suffocating and stuffy but we had no choice but to manage the little we could afford, for now, we no longer feel out of place in the village. I am glad that I was able to improve my living standards with the transfer that I got, thus my life is never the same, I am thankful for the great milestone that brought so much happiness in my life.

I am a casual labourer and a mother of six children, we have been living in a small grass-thatched house all these years due to financial constraints as a result of unreliable source of income, therefore, when I received my transfer I decided to build a decent house for my family where I used KES 35,000. I then used KES10,000 in paying back a loan, lastly, I used the remaining part of the transfer in buying household items and foodstuffs.