The new goal that I did not have before receiving the transfer is building a better and more spacious house for my family. I used the KES 45,000 of the second transfer on paying the outstanding balance for the land that I bought. My new goal now is to save some money from the small casual jobs that we do to enable us to purchase the building materials. I am so grateful for the support because were it not GiveDirectly all this could have taken quite some time.

GiveDirectly does well by giving money to the poor in the community to build better houses and purchase dairy cows among other activities. I do not find anything that GiveDirectly did not do well since the training and the enrollment was fairly done.

I spent KES 45,000 on paying the balances that were outstanding from the land that I bought before using my saving. We depend on small-scale farming and casual jobs in the village. The money that we get is so small and we were not able to pay on time. I am so grateful because currently I have full ownership of the land and I am planning on building a house. The rest of the money I spent on food and household items that we were lacking.

It was around 4 pm. I was away from home, I had gone for a visit somewhere else. I did not hear my phone ringing at the time the SMS was being sent since I was in a noisy place and my phone was on silent mode. I saw it later and I was so happy on seeing that I had received the promised transfer from GiveDirectly. I did not tell anyone the good news since I was in a new place. I only called my husband to let him know of the wonderful news. He was so happy when he heard about it and we gave thanks to God.

The transfer has brought a very big difference in our lives as a family. We were able to make a big step towards achieving our dream of building another house having bought the building materials. The children are also happy because they now have new clothes for themselves. They kept asking if the new clothes that they got were bought with the transfer from GiveDirectly. We are hence so much grateful to GiveDirectly.

We spent KES 10000 of the transfer money on buying food and clothes for ourselves and the children. We also bought 25 iron sheets, 500 bricks, and two bags of cement with the remaining amount of money. We bought the materials because we want to construct a permanent house. The house that we are living in it is made of mud. We want to build another permanent house because getting good mud for mudding the houses has become a big challenge. It is no longer easily available like before. We have always wanted to build another house but we did not have the money needed to do so. I usually practice farming where I usually grow vegetables for sale while my husband is a mason. The money that he makes most of it usually goes to the purchase of food, that is, maize, and at times when he has saved some, he usually buys a calf or a sheep. Maize is not usually easily available in our area because when planted, it usually gets affected by some disease hence low harvests. The calf and sheep are going to help us in the future with the children's school fees when they join secondary school. The money that I get from the sale of vegetables usually helps me in purchasing small household items such as tea leaves, salt, etc. This way I get to help my husband with the household costs. Thank you so much GiveDirectly for your help.