I used to stay in a small one-roomed house which was squeezed and when we were all in it, one could accidentally step on the other while moving around indeed movements and privacy was difficult. I wished to change this situation and due to the meagre income, I made from the causal work having a spacious house was just a dream to achieve. My life is different in that I been able to own a spacious house and now were are able to have family time together hence it has strengthened our love and happiness as well.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly did well at the initiation of the transfer program in the village. They conducted baraza to demystify propagandas which were cropping up in the village, as a result, it enhanced community involvement as well. I personally feel that the amount given was little hence I wasn't able to achieve some of my projects.

Previously, I had weak chairs which were risky sitting on them because one could easily fall and life was harder when I had visitors because I had to hire plastic chairs from my village members. I bought decent seats with the larger part of the money that I received from GiveDirectly.The remaining transfer I spent on buying building material that I hadn't purchased with the first transfer and used them to build a decent spacious house that I have always desired to own.

Owning a bigger house has always been a challenge and it always kept me in deep thoughts wondering how to raise money for constructing the house because it pained me seeing my children staying in such a poor conditioned house. I'm happy, proud and I'm currently settled psychologically because I have achieved the dream of owning my dream house. This is the biggest difference in my daily life.

I usually wake up at 6:30 am but on this day I was awoken by the sound of the phone at around 5:00 am. Being that I was expecting the GD money could be sent at any time, I rushed to check if it could be a message from GD and to my surprise, I had received money from GiveDirectly. I thanked God, took the phone back and went back to sleep because I didn't want to interfere with my spouse, I had to let her sleep until morning when I shared the news with her. She was pleased and advised me that we shouldn't rush in spending the money since she knew everyone would spend it at that time and the prices of most commodities would go up.

I had a single room house but the family have grown big, we are now seven in the family, so we couldn't fit in the house, but we had to squeeze ourselves in it because we didn't have a choice. When I received the first transfer I used it to construct a three-room house and I'm now happy the children have a separate bedroom from our bedroom, at least we have our privacy.