After my spouse enrolled to school to further his education . We had to cut cost on expenditures meaning paying school fees for my two children who were in secondary school was difficult because entirely our household depends on my husband's salary who is a teacher. Therefore , at times , we had to compromised paying school fees for the children over my spouse's education . My life is different than it would have been if I never received these transfers because I have been able to pay school fees for my children for the whole term with GiveDirectly's transfers . As a result , they haven't been sent home for school fees and through their consistency in attendance, they have shown a slight improvement on their performance .

In my opinion, GiveDirectly eradicated poverty in my village since they targeted the poorer to benefit from money which was not refundable . Through these money , most beneficiaries spent on educating their children , bought livestock , started small businesses and built new houses . I do not see what GiveDirectly did wrong at its work .

I spent 30000 KES of my second transfer to pay school based distance learning for my husband . At the moment he is going on smoothly with his study . I bought food for my family's consumption 6000 KES and clothing 10,000 KES . The remaining amount I bought household utensils and now I no longer borrow from my neighbors .

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now own a cupboard. It had always been my desire to own one but I had not been able to due to lack of money. Because of this, I used to store my utensils in a carton box hence could get damaged easily. I am happy that this habit has now stopped and my utensils are a save in the cupboard.

It was a few minutes to 4 am when I received a message alert on my phone. I was woken up by the loud message alert tone and I decided to read and know its contents. After reading the message, my heart was filled with happiness as I had never received such an amount before.

I decided to clear school fees arrears for my children who are in secondary school using part of my transfer. I settled on this so that they would be able to study without any interruptions. Also, I bought some household items that I did not have. I bought some utensils and a cupboard to use in storing the utensils. As a way of improving my poultry keeping project, I bought a wire mesh to use in fencing part of my compound where I will be feeding my chicken from. I am now glad since I no longer practice freelance poultry keeping project which usually led to the destruction of my crops on the farm.