If I could not have received money from give directly I could not have managed to pay dowry to my spouse and sure she could still be at her biological home together with my children. I could not have managed to invest in sugarcane farming as I did.

In my opinion give directly did very well by giving people phones because some of us have never own a phone in their life and this was a privilege to us. It was also a good thing that the money was being sent direct to our phone and not using third party for money to reach us. l am happy and pleased with their system helping the needy. I did not see any thing that Give directly did not do well.

I spent most of the transfer to buy cattle which I used in paying dowry for my spouse. I have been having a big problem with her since I had not been able to pay dowry for several years being that I could not afford. So my spouse left to her biological home plus my children since she wanted me to pay her dowry. I was not pleased when my children and my wife left, So I decided to spend the money to pay dowry for my wife and now they are back and we are now staying peacefully. I have also earn respect from my in laws. The remaining balance I spent on sugarcane farming which I am very sure of getting a good harvest, where I will get money to do other developments.

My life has really changed when doing comparison between the current life and the former one. I could now have good meals with the family which could not happened before. I have confidence with my marriage because I have paid dowry and now recognized culturally as married couples.

When I received my transfer, I was very happy. There was a message that rung into my mind was that "This is the end of humiliation and insults from community members". People knew the kind of poverty in our family and it was a gossip in the village that there was nothing good that could be expected from our family. Getting married was a waste of time to someone's daughter as they normally said. At the time I received money, I had surety that everything would be now possible and settled.

I spent my first transfer on buying two cows which I took to my in-law as dowry. I am an orphan and we had nothing to inherit from our late parents because they were poor. It is our Customs that, when a young man reached marital age, it is the parents to pay dowry for their son, but this could not be realized because of high level of poverty in our family. I also bought two high density mattresses, one for my family, and the other one for my visitors, I finally bought two sacks of maize for food security and land preparation also I paid for.