My life is improved because I have a dairy cow for milk production to use in household consumption. I used to buy milk using my hard-earned money from menial jobs. Sometimes I could not afford to buy it and ends up drinking tea without milk. It was difficult to see my children go to school having taken water, sugar and tea leaves. I am currently expecting the cow to calf. I am so happy that I will soon be having milk from my own farm.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly did well bur first having a meeting with us to tell us what this aid was all about. It made us aware of the fact that we could spend the money whichever way we would choose in order to get the biggest assistance we needed.

I spent the money I received on my second on buying a dairy cow. I had been buying milk for consumption. Even this is a heifer, I am hopeful because I know that there is a time when I will be milking on the farm. It is always expensive to keep buying milk for the household. I then paid school fees for my children in a secondary school.

The biggest difference in my life is that I am happy that my son has his own house to study and sleep in. For quite a long time, my son has been sleeping in my neighbor's son's house since we had not built him his own due to financial constraints. Since he had to walk to this house every night, it always troubled that he was exposing himself to insecurity and on top of that he never got ample time to study. I am happy he can now study with less disturbance. I was also able to pay my daughter's high school fees. I solely depended on the proceeds from the sale of milk to pay the fees but it was always barely enough to pay the school fees and still meet other needs. I am grateful to GiveDirectly for giving us a helping hand!

It was around six in the morning, I had just woken up and was preparing to cook breakfast for my family. I got a notification that I had a message on my phone and upon checking, I got excited and joyful to see that I had received the transfer that GiveDirectly had promised us. I was so happy!

I spent a large portion of the transfer received to build a house for my son. My son has been sleeping in a neighbors house and I thought that it was right to build him his own. I also bought some chicken for rearing using part of the transfers. These will come in handy in the near future to meet the daily needs from the sale of eggs. I used the rest of the transfers to pay my daughter's secondary fees.