The major difference in my life right now compared to my previous one when I did not receive the transfers is that I now have a kitchen. With this transfer, I bought building materilas like timber, nails and iron sheets and built a kitchen and poultry pen. My children now sleep in their own room and find space to study after school and the poultry does not have to share a room with them either.

Give Directly has changed my living standards. My child now gets to stay in school and concentrate on their studies fully. My family has enough food on a daily basis and none of them wears torn clothes anymore. This to me means a lot as compared to how my life had been before the transfers. I have more farms where I can now plant my seeds and expect a boost in my farm produce which I will consume and get to sell the surplus. GD has done so much for my society that I can not say they have done anything wrong.

I used the transfer to buy building materials like iron sheets, nails, timber and steel door to build a new kitchen as I did not have one. We slept in one house with my kids and it was so small. The house was so much congested as we were keeping poultry in the house too. I built a two-roomed kitchen and a chicken pen where the children and the poultry now get to sleep separately and peacefully. It is also a farming season and my family depend largely on farm produce for consumption and income generation. I used part of the transfer to lease two more farms, buy hybrid maize seeds and hire a tractor to plough my farms ahead of the planting season. This means we will harvest more farm produce for sale and consumption hence increase in income for family upkeep. My child had an outstanding school fees balance and I was summoned by the teacher to clear it in time before they sent her home from school.

I was able to pay the entire school fees for my daughter who had been sent out of school fees which has reduced our stress of raising the money.With the farm,I also have hope of slowly getting back into sugarcane farming which served well a few years back.

It was a feeling that I cannot even describe,all I can say is that I was happy.

I leased out a piece of land with part of the money where I plan to plant sugarcane which I know will give me good returns. I used some of it to clear my daughter's school fees and saved the rest which I plan to use to to purchase seeds and fertilizers when the right time comes.