I have a goal of raising livestock because I have been a subsistence farmer for a considerable amount of time. In addition to the three goats I already own from the previous transfer, I want to purchase additional. The reason for this is that I wish to invest in livestock after discovering that goats are inexpensive to maintain and have a ready market. By doing this, I will have a reliable source of income because goats are easily exchangeable for money.

In my perspective, GiveDirectly succeeds admirably by providing financial support. I am always content and delighted when I consider what I have accomplished. If I hadn't been given the option to decide how to spend the money, I would not have done these things. On the other side, there was nothing about GiveDirectly that I felt could have been done more effectively. Everything was carried out well.

After using part of the first transfer to start construction of a house which went halfway, I eagerly waited for the second transfer to complete. Upon getting the second transfer, I spent $300 of the transfer to complete the house. I bought some construction materials as well as paid the contractor. As of now, I am happy because the house is complete and I dwell in a nice house than before. Apart from that, I bought a bed and a mattress for $120. I took this initiative because the bed I was using had broken. For the remaining amount, I bought some food for my family.

Illiteracy was almost delaying my happiness. I cannot remember whether I heard the message tone or not. What I know is that as I reached home from the shamba, I heard neighbors happily saying that they had received their transfer. Since we were registered on the same day, I became curious and contacted my helper. The helper confirmed that I had also received my transfer. I was very happy like a bride because, at my old age of 63 years, I did not expect to get a huge sum of money like $550 which I did not receive when I was young and stable.

The house and hunger fulfillment are the two key changes brought on by the GiveDirectly transfer. At first, our family would go up to three days a week without eating. Charcoal burning, which was unstable, was the main source of our revenue. We currently have access to food thanks to GiveDirectly. In addition, we previously slept in a home with poor security. We had no choice but to cross our fingers and sleep uncomfortably in the house while it collapsed. I was able to build a decent home that is safe to sleep in thanks to the transfer. If not for GiveDirectly, none of these would have been able to occur anytime soon.

When I received the cash transfer, my priority was constructing a more spacious house than the one I had as it was small and congested. Before, building a house was difficult given that I mostly depended on charcoal making, and the little money I earned could not even enable me to get some food on regular basis. Courtesy of the transfers, I spent $218 to build a bigger one-room mud-waaled house with an iron sheet roof. After that, I opted to build a house because I did not have a decent house. The house I had was very small, congested, and collapsing thus it was unsafe to dwell in. Thereafter, I bought a sack of maize for $62 so that I could have food security at home while concentrating on other things. Since I desired to rare some livestock, I used $110 to buy three goats. For the remaining amount, I saved for my upkeep.