The new goal that I have in life is to purchase a piece of land so that I can relocate from my current village. I live in a region where some people are jealous when others make a progress in life and it has always been my dream to improve our living standards. I offer taxi services using my motorcycle and I am planning to start saving some money daily. I will later use this savings to achieve this goal after selling a heifer once my dairy cow calves.

GiveDirectly did well by enrolling people directly without using someone else and by sending the transfer directly to the recipient's account. This eliminated corruption and it showed that there was fairness during the enrollment process. I do not see anything that it did not do well.

I operate a bodaboda business in our locality and I sometimes use it to carry water for drinking and domestic use. This is because we usually fetch them at a river that is far from our village and one usually has to walk for a long distance which is time-consuming. When I received my transfer, I bought a water tank worth KES 17000 and a dairy cow at KES 28000 after the one that I had bought using my first transfer died. This will enable me to save the money that I would otherwise use in buying milk when it calves. I spent the remaining amount on food and other household necessities.

I was at home relaxing before going to work when I received a message notification on my phone. I decided to read it and know if it was containing an urgent message and upon reading it, I became so happy as it was a Mpesa message from GiveDirectly. Having such an amount of money made me know that my life would soon change as we had been informed that we were free to spend the money on our most pressing needs and that was what I was intending to do with mine.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have been able to reduce my daily expenditure by far. This is because I was able to buy a sack of maize and a dairy cow that now gives me enough milk for our consumption. I am planning to spend the KES 1200 that I usually pay the milk vendor every month to pay school fees for my children and invest some in other projects. Apart from reducing my daily expenditure, I am hopeful that my wife will earn some income through the sale of milk once our cow reproduces. This will enable her to support me in buying some of her personal needs instead of always requesting for money.

When I received my transfer, I bought a dairy cow and a heifer worth KES 30000 and KES 12000 respectively as a way of investing this money. When it calves, my family will have enough milk for consumption after selling some to earn an income. In addition to this, I will be able to save KES 1200 monthly that I usually spend on milk. I own a motorbike and it had taken months since I last took it for service and I am glad that I was able to achieve this as I used KES 7000 to service it. Using the remaining KES 6000, I bought some food and clothes for my family.