My life has got a very big different in that, the house I had before was small and could not accommodate the family members, we were confined into a small house, and sometimes confidentiality could be difficult because we were sleeping in a single room. I was being forced by the fact that I was poor to beg for chairs from neighbours. This could result to gossip and this bred to stigmatization in my life. Thank God for GiveDirectly.

GiveDirectly has given everyone a tool of fighting poverty. The policy of freedom to spend the money in accordance to your own economic demands has not been embraced by almost of NGOs in the world. I noticed that freedom to access money results to positive economic impact in the society. The organization should adopt system of monitoring and evaluation after first transfer, but before second transfer, in order to make sure that the money is used on matters that could uplift the lives of recipients. This is because, some of the recipients spent money on matters with little or no economic impact.

I spent my second transfer on chairs, wall unit and seeds as well as farm labour. I built a decent house using the first transfer, but since I did not have chairs, I was to buy it. I had no chairs and whenever we had visitors as family or church fellowship in my house, I had to beg for chairs from my neighbours who later turn my poverty situation to be a gossip around the village. I have gained social dignity and self worth amongst my community members.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that l am now stress free since l manage to clear school fee arrears for my child and so l do not need to worry so much. My children also are addressing neatly like other children in the village.

The moment l received the money l was very happy that l shared the good news with my family members and this was the happiest moment in our farming ever.

I spent most of the transfer to pay school fee arrears for my daughter when she was almost failing to do her end year examination. I also spent the transfer to buy dairy cow and this will save me from spending money to buy milk from my neighbors. The remaining balance l spent to buy food and clothes for my children.