My life has improved when I bought the dairy cow. Milk for consumption in my household is now available. My children have never gone to school hungry like before the transfers. They always have breakfast before school which makes them learn better. The eggs from the chickens I bought too contribute greatly towards the provision of school supplies for them. They are having their education facilitated well as compared to before. If I had not received this transfer, my children would have been facing huge odds against their education.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly did so well by training us just before we received the transfers. The knowledge in hand enabled me to manage my mobile money account, which was a new concept, quite well.

I spent the money I received on buying a dairy cow. I needed to own a dairy cow mainly because I needed milk for my household use. I wanted to stop buying milk from neighbors. Its high prices mean that whenever I did not have money, We would go without it This was not desirable and my children were the ones who suffer the most. They could go to school without breakfast. I then bought chickens to rear. I finally bought clothes for children.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have built a better and spacious house for my family. Before we were living in a small grass-thatched house which had a leaking roof. Whenever we had visitors it was so embarrassing because it was hard enough to accommodate all of us. During the rainy season, we were exposed to cold and this affected my children the most as they would fall ill due to the harsh weather conditions. I am happy that we have been able to bring the new house to completion and we are now living quite comfortably as a family.

The moment I received my money from GiveDirectly, I felt so happy. It was very early in the morning that day when I heard my phone ring. It was notifying me of a message that I had just received, something very unusual, especially at such odd hours. On checking the message, I could not believe what I just saw. Throughout my entire life, I have never received such an amount of money before. I felt so happy and appreciative of the same. We all celebrated as a family and quickly got down to planning on how best we could utilize the money to give us maximum benefits.

I spent my first transfer to build a better house for my family. The house we were staying in was too small and this made it a little more uncomfortable for us to live in especially with the growing size of my family. I also used part of the transfer to build a poultry house since I have plans of rearing chicken on a large scale. The remaining amount was used to buy the basic household needs for the family.