Our new goal is to renovate the sleeping house for my boys. It is mud-walled and we would like to change and construct permanent walls. This is because getting good mud for mudding the house has become quite a challenge since it is no longer easily available. We thus usually have to buy it. Mudding the walls and floor is also tedious and my wife is growing old. She is no longer able to do the hard work. We also have a plan to buy a goat so that we can have an alternative source of milk when the cow is dry. This way, we will no longer have to incur the costs of buying milk when the cow is dry.

GiveDirectly staff taught us well in the meeting that they held with the community members. We got to understand more about the program and the people got good advice on how to spend their transfers. They were also not biased, they gave every household money as long as they are living in the village. I hence did not see anything wrong with how they conducted their work.

We spent our entire recent transfer on renovating our kitchen house. It was made of mud on the walls and we decided to change it to be permanent. We bought sand, cement, and wire mesh. We also cemented the floor of the kitchen since it was also made of mud. We decided to do so because my wife is getting old and she is no longer able to do the tedious task of mudding the house. Getting good mud for mudding the house has also become a challenge. It is no longer easily available like before and we usually have to buy it. We had thought of doing this before but we didn't have the money. I have a small shop business and the money that I usually make from the it, most of it usually goes to the purchase of food and milk when the cow is dry. We are thus glad that we managed to complete the renovation work and the kitchen now looks good as new. This is all thanks to GiveDirectly for their big help.

lt was around four in the morning while still asleep when I heard an SMS notification on my phone. On checking, it was KES55000 from GiveDirectly and I was very happy and slept peacefully because I had already planned for it

The biggest difference in my daily life is availability of adequate water especially after the recent heavy rains because I now have a 5000 litres water tank which can store lots of water for a long time.I am grateful because I am now relieved of daily water transportation expenses because we no longer struggle to fetch water from afar.

I bought a 5000 litres water tank at KES32000 in order to ensure accessibility of water for livestock and domestic use. This is because our nearest water source is three kilometers away and everyday I used KES100 per day in water transport and this was quite expensive. I used the rest in upgrading my kitchen from mudwalled to a brickwalled house in order to relief my wife from heavy task of looking for smearing mud.