I have made major step towards build a decent house that I wouldn't have made without GD. Among other assets and activities I supported with GiveDirectly's money, I value the most a cow. I looked at it as an added asset that will always support my family. We have more milk produce for both household use and sales. I also expect offsprings from that will always be my security.

GiveDirectly has made it clear that they came to help the needy. I have a transparent, corruption-free, kind and fair organization that I had never seen before. I urge them to continue support the poor since I don't see anything wrong in their operations.

I have a small house that currently host us comfortably. Considering my growing family, I have planned to build a more spacious decent house that I can move to give my current house to my children. I took my entire second transfer to buy building material that include nails, timber, iron sheets, sand, cement among other in preparation to build a new house. I am glad that I have made good steps towards realising my goal.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have bought materials ready to cement the floor of my house. I do casual jobs in the village and the small amount of money I get was hardly enough to meet all the basic needs. We have been living in a house with a dusty floor and this was exposing us to respiratory diseases and most of the time we could get cough and other related problems. I have bought all the required materials from the hardware just waiting for the second transfer to enable me to start the process of cementing. My family will no longer be exposed to dust like before and it will reduce the cost of visiting the doctor every other time. I am so much grateful for the support because it has changed our living standards and it has given us hope for a better tomorrow.

I felt very happy the moment I received my money. I had never received such an amount of money in my life before and I never really thought that GiveDirectly will make good their promise of sending us unconditional cash. I received a call from my friend and neighbor early in the morning that day and he was asking me if I had received any money as he did. I immediately check my messages and the first message that I saw was confirming that I have received 55000 KES from GiveDirectly I felt so happy. My spouse and children were so happy too because we had never received such an amount of money before. I knew I would be able to cement the floor of my house, something I had always wished I could do but which I had not been successful in doing due to little income got from my casual labour.

I spent my first transfer to buy building materials in readiness to cement the floor of my house. This, I will be able to do once I get my second transfer. The remaining amount of money from my first transfer was used to buy food and other basic household needs.