Having improved our main house by putting up a cemented floor, we now have a kitchen that is mud walled and with uncemented floor. In the next one year and beyond, we look forward to improving this structure by erecting timber walls and having the floor cemented as well. I plan to raise enough money from dairy keeping and subsistence farming that I do. Once I do this, I will have a more comfortable home for both our children and us. Having a more comfortable home reduces some stresss especially after a hard day's work. It makes our homes very lively. Achieving this shall make me and my family very happy.

In my opinion GiveDirectly does very well by giving us support in form of cash. This leaves us with a variety of choice and gives everyone an opportunity to choose how to spend the money and achieve maximum returns. Everyone within my village is very happy and impressed with whatever they spent. I do not see anything with GiveDirectly's operations that I think should be corrected or done in any better way. Everything seemed right for me.

When I received my second transfer of $550, I used $200 to buy a heifer and another $100 to buy maize for consumption. The remaining amount of $250 was used to cement the floor of my house. I chose to invest the money on livestock as a long term investment that would see me meet some of the emergency needs that may come by. I had for a long time longed for a house with a cemented floor since this would be easy to maintain but due to little income that we make from our subsistence farming then we were unable to raise enough to do all the improvements that we have been able to do with GiveDirectly transfers. I now feel so much happy and grateful to GiveDirectly for what it has enabled us to do-something we would not have achieved anytime soon.

It was around 5 p.m while on the farm planting maize. That's when I received a message alert on my phone. On checking, I was excited to have received KES 55,000 from GiveDirectly. Overwhelmed with joy, I left the farm and thanked God for GiveDirectly for such a gift.

The biggest difference in my daily life since I received my transfers is the availability of adequate food. This has helped reduce the strain of waking early for casual labor. Secondly, the additional heifer will be key in milk production.

I am a mother of five, four are grown and independent and one is still living with me. To feed my family I rely on dairy and maize farming on a small scale. During enrollment, my first plan was to buy a dairy cow. True to my word, KES 20,000 was spent on a heifer when my transfers arrived. Once these reproduce it will be a source of milk and income majorly for household consumption. Secondly, KES 4,000 was spent on a bag of maize. And as we speak a kilo of maize meal is now KES 100. The remainder will be over in a week. Earlier on, my weekly household budget was KES 1,000 spent on maize, sugar vegetables, and soap but this has gone up the due increase in commodity prices. Thirdly, KES 10,000 was spent on 1,500 liters of the water tank. This helps store more water compared to the smaller one I had. Lastly, KES 5,000 was used on the latest clothing fashion which is of high quality compared to second-hand clothes.