My life is different from how it would have been had I not received the transfer because I have been able to build a spacious house for my family. Due to this, we all enjoy our privacy all the time. Also, my income from the dairy project has increased since the cow I bought using the transfers has calved. Due to this, I have been able to cater for our daily needs and pay my children's school fees on time.

GiveDirectly did well by honoring their promise and I do not see anything that they did not do well.

My second transfer enabled me to buy a dairy cow and sheep as an investment. When it reproduces, I will be able to earn more income through the sake of milk to my neighbors. This money will enable me to cater for our daily needs on time. Also, I will be selling the sheep in case if a financial challenge. I spent the remaining amount to but two seats and two sacks of maize for my family.

I have been living with humble and peaceful minds since I spent part of my first transfer on my children school fee and on building a new house that I currently live in. Among the biggest goals that I had for my life is to give my children good education and building a new house that I could live in order to have better comfort than spending my nights with grown-up children. I am a casual laborer and I always priorities my children education among my family needs since it is always my goal to see them a better life in future than mine but due to little wages I earn I could find my children being sent home during school terms since I could not clear their fee on time. I had also always felt uncomfortable spending my night under the same roof with children because I was not able to build another house due to lack of enough resources. I had always worked under a lot of pressure to meet this two goals but I am happy currently that I have humble and peaceful minds since I have settled the school fees for my children on time and have a better and different house to spend my nights in unlike before.

Immediately I saw a message notification at around midnight that I had received money from GD, I was left sleepless over the remaining part of the night. I could not believe that it was true since I had no trusted GD during enrollment. I started imagining living in a different house with my grown-up children a dream that I had built in mind for long but due to lack of resource, I wasn't able to see it come true.

I had built a small house shortly after I got married some times back with an aim and hopes of having a bigger and more decent with time but this had not come to reality due to ever-rising family basic needs and household expenditures. I am a casual laborer dedicated to ever support my children hence I always work hard to meet their needs. I spend most of my wages on my children schools fees and other daily household needs a situation that had always paralyzed my goal of having a bigger and decent house. After receiving my first transfer from GD, I spend KES26000 to build an iron-roofed house that has made me comfortable since I currently do not share the same roof with my grown-up children like before. I also spent KES15000 to pay school fees for my children since my casual jobs do not have a steady flow of income hence relying on this had always forced my children to spend some their school days at home whenever they are sent to collect money. I am so happy that going future I will be able to raise the required money on time now that GD has raised the most immediate hence giving me humble time to struggle for the future terms fee. Since we receive low rainfalls in our area, farming is not doing well hence food shortage had been my household challenge. I spent KES7000 on my household food and other daily household basic needs and expenditures.