GiveDirectly transfers have become a starting point towards a beautiful financially stable life. I would still be wallowing in debt as I would still be taking milk and other daily food supplies on credit. When the transfers came, I bought a cow that provides the otherwise very expensive milk and reduced my daily expenditure a lot. The money instead goes to meeting other daily needs more easily than beforer I recived the transfers. I am very happy that GiveDirectly came to my village.

GiveDirectly does so well in delivering the promises on time. This has increased the extent of the impact of cash in peoples lives. Many have managed to turn their lives around because the money came at the time they were ready to spend on their plans. I am seeing a huge change in the village and so I can't see anything that Givedirectly does not do well on.

I used a large part of my transfer to purchase a cow. For a long time, my household has relied on buying milk from other peoples farms. This has been taking our daily household expenditure higher. I now can produce the commodity for consumption even for sale. Buying this cow cost me a huge part of my transfer but now it is a financial asset. I then used the rest of the transfer to buy utensils. My kitchen was not complete since I had very little to use in cooking and in serving food. Whenever I had visitors in my house, I had only two options: to choose between the shame of borrowing utensils from my neighbor or the embarrassment of having other people wait for others to finish eating so that I can serve them later.

Having boosted my business with a portion of the money, it has picked so well and I'm able to comfortably meet households without asking anyone for money since I now have extra income from the business. This makes me feel independent, happy and proud. This is the biggest difference in my daily life.

I was informed by my son who is a GD beneficiary that GD had sent him money. Since my phone was off, I hurriedly switched it on so that I could check if I had received money too and to my surprise, I received a confirmation message that I had received money from GD. I felt so happy, jumped up and down as I celebrated the receipt of the money.

Previously I had two broken wooden seats which were risky sitting on because one could easily fall while sitting on them, so I spent part of the first transfer on decent seats. Aside from that, the nature of my work requires that I close very late at night and it was hectic looking for firewood later in the night for cooking, so I bought a gas cooker which has eased my work while cooking. A portion of the money I spent on hair products which I've added to the few hair productsI had to boost my business.