My income barely meets my family's daily needs,therefore, life has been challenging especially seeing my child on and off in school due to overdue areas . With GiveDirectly's transfers, I have been able to pay school fees on time and settled all the arrears . This on other hand has given me happiness and peace seeing them attend school consistently .Secondly , I now keep four goats in my homestead to the courtesy of GiveDirectly . To me its a saving for the future of my young children's education. I know once they reproduce and increase in number, I will be able to sell and help me out of rising financial problems.

In my opinion , GiveDirectly did an awesome work by giving money in my community to the poor which uplifted our livelihood . Personally . I have gotten a privileged to live in a spacious house after extension that I only saw as a dream before . I do not have any critic on GiveDirectly's operations .

I spent the lager part of my second transfer to buy building materials such as iron sheets , timbers, nails and paid labors who facilitated the extension of my house . I have bigger a house which accommodates my family well .The remaining amount I bought two goats , hopefully in the foreseen future, I shall sell some of its offspring to cater for emergencies that might present itself.

The biggest difference in my daily life that I can proudly mention is that I now have a permanent house. My previous house was grass-thatched and leaking. Some of my children were sleeping at their uncles house, it reached a time my children were like a burden to them. Apart from that, I used to keep some of my house property under a tree because there was no space in the house. This was really insecure because some were always stolen including some utensils. The coming of GiveDirectly has transformed my life because I really can't tell what could happen in the future. I am so happy and ambitious now because all is settled, we are sleeping under a big an iron-roofed house which is well plastered.

It almost 3 am when I heard my phone vibrating continuously. I decided to check what the message was all about. I realized that the money that had been promised by GiveDirectly had hit in my M-Pesa account. I was sure now that the dreams I always had would finally be achieved with the help of the transfer. I was so happy.

I spent part of my first transfer on buying some building materials such as iron sheets and building poles. This was for the purpose of the construction of a new house because the previous one was very small and in a poor condition. I then bought some goats as my assets, this, for example, my children had been sent home to collect school fees, I can be able to sell one and clear the fees arrears. I then cleared school fees for my children because some were at school because of the huge fee balances. I then bought some enough foodstuffs for my family because some of my children were malnourished.