For sometime now I have been relying on a small business that I run in a nearby town as well as dairy keeping to earn a living. I have however come to realize that the shop that I run gives very little in terms of returns and I sometimes even run into losses. In the next few days, I am planning on specializing in dairy keeping. With the current drought situation, even farming of crops has been an excercise in futility. I am so happy that I was able to use the first and the second transfer to improve my dairy keeping project by completing a dairy house that I had built halfway. I now have two dairy cows with one of them producing 17 liters of milk per day. My plan is to add the number to 3 once the drought situation has stopped and we have the rains.

In my opinion GiveDirectly does very well by carefully selecting places that are in dire need of the money. Looking at the kind of people that were enrolled in my village and the kind of investments that they have made makes me so happy. Nearly every household now has a living asset that will help them even in the days to come. Giving the support in form of cash was another good thing from GiveDirectly. Different people have different needs and they so much respect that.

I used the entire transfer of $550 to complete a gate that I had constructed halfway and which had stalled for quite sometime. I had ran out of cash and the little that I got from farming and my shop would just provide enough to pay school fees for my child. This was therefore not a priority to me. When I received the second transfer, I thought this was a perfect opportunity to erect the steel gate which had already been assebled. I therefore bought a few bags of cement and sand. I also used some of the money to meet the cost of erecting the gate by paying the workers that helped in putting it up. I am so happy that my compound is now more secure more safe for us courtesy of GiveDirectly transfers.

I felt so much happy the moment I received money from GiveDirectly. We were eagerly waiting for the money to complete our dairy unit project and when it finally came we felt so much happy and got down to work almost immediately. The project had had to stop for quite sometime since we could not afford to raise enough money to complete it and at the same time complete other projects like buying food for family

The biggest difference in my daily life is the dairy unit that I was able to set up to its completion. This is a project that I started long a go with a vision of being a serious dairy keeper as a source of income but which had stalled for quite sometime due to lack of enough money to push it through. I do not have other sources of income except for farming and I could only wait for better days to come by. I am so happy that it finally to became a reality that I now have a complete cowshade. I am a father of one and my vision is to see to it that I become more independent financially even going forward.

I used all of my recent transfer to build a dairy unit. The money came when I had already built the shade and set up the troughs and it assisted me in cementing the floor and buying a water tank for collection of water from the same cowshade. I am happy that the project is now complete and I can now fully concentrate on dairy keeping that I have been passionate about. My wife works as a teacher and I am looking forward towards giving her a helping hand by engaging in dairy keeping. We used to rely on maize farming but is nowadays very unreliable since they don't get to mature faster.