My life is different than how it would have been had I not received the transfer. This is because I no longer walk for a longer distance looking for clean water for domestic use. This is because I now have water at my doorstep as I was able to harvest enough rain water using the tank that I bought using the transfers. In addition to this, I was able to practice large scale farming this year unlike the previous years. Due to this, I am optimistic of a good harvest that will last us till the next harvesting season.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly does well by uplifting people's lives and I do not see anything that they do not do well.

I spent KES 15000 from my transfer to complete building a house for my family. I had started building it using my first transfer but left in incomplete when I ran short of funds. Also, I spent KES 20000 on farming. I hired a tractor for land preparation purposes, bought some quality hybrid seeds and also hired a tractor for planting purposes. Also, my creditors were on my neck as they knew that I had received some money and due to this, I used KES 15000 tk clear all the debts.

I had gone to school which is my place of work to ask for maternity leave to be granted to me when I heard an SMS alert on my phone. I pulled out my phone from the bag to check it because I thought that it might be something or someone needing my attention. I could not believe what I saw in the SMS, it was reading that we had received the lump sum amount of 55000/= from GiveDirectly. I was so happy about seeing this and I immediately called my husband to inform him of the good news. He was so happy to hear this and we said thank you because we were now going to be able to achieve what we had planned to do.

The transfer has brought a big positive change in our lives as a family. We were able to buy a water tank and hence we will no longer be having to make long trips to the river to fetch water. The tank will enable us to collect rainwater that is going to be enough for our household use. We will also be able to get more time to do other important works such as going to the farm. This is because making long trips to the river usually consumes a lot of our time. The transfer has also enabled us to fully complete the construction of the kitchen by cementing the floor and placing the plywoods on the ceiling and the walls. Having done this, the kitchen now looks good and warmer. My work has also been reduced because I will no longer have to go through the stress of looking for mud and smearing the floor. Also, having fenced well around the farm, the cows will no longer be getting into it and hence the crops will no longer be getting destroyed. The transfer also enabled us to buy seeds and hence we have been able to plant.

The transfer from GiveDirectly has been of great help to us. We were able to buy a water tank with it and barbed wire for fencing our piece of land where we grow crops. We have also been able to cement the floor of our kitchen and to place the plywood on the ceiling and the walls. The transfer also enabled us to buy seeds for planting. The reason why we decided to buy a water tank is that we have been making long trips to the river to get water for household use. We have also at times been borrowing it from our neighbors who have dug boreholes. The fence that we had set up around the farm had become loose and hence the cows had found a way of getting into the farm and destroying the crops. We hence decided to buy the barbed wire so that we could fence it again. We had built the kitchen before but due to lack of enough money, we were not in a position to finish it, and hence we decided to just smear mud on the floor and use it that way. All of the above activities needed money for them to be done. My husband and I depend mainly on agriculture and a little on the contract jobs that we have to earn a living. The money that we have been getting from these sources of income, has mostly been going to payment of school fees for our children and re-investing in the farm. This has therefore rendered the other developments impossible.