My life is different in that when GiveDirectly came, we hardly had anything as a family to be proud of. I felt so much happy and proud as a father when I was finally able to settle my last born son in school with much ease. This is something that had been eating up my mind for a long time considering that I had no personal assets to sell at the event that I did not have any cash to help him complete his secondary education. For the three years that he had been in school, we sold almost everything to help him realize his dream of a better future. It would have been so devastating to keep him for the three years only for him to drop out at his fourth year in secondary school. My son felt so happy and am optimistic that he will pass his form four exams at the end of the year. It is something I will live to remember for the rest of my life.

GiveDirectly does well in its community engagement to demystify the rumors that comes with the transfers in my community. Their barazas are so involving and informative and goes a long way in making us accept and put the money into good use. The fact that GiveDirectly funds are unconditional is something to be proud of. I do not see anything that I feel GiveDirectly should change.

I spent part of my second transfer to pay school fees for my son who has just joined form four. It is a requirement for all the candidates in that school to board and this transfer came in handy to help me pay his school fee and also buy him the boarding requirements. I felt so much happy to see my son join form four with much ease. It has always been my hope and prayer to give him the best in terms of education as this is the only hope I have and look up to in the days to come. I also spent part of the remaining amount in buying our household needs and especially food to keep my family going. I come from an arid area that hardly produces any food and more often than not we as a family go without food. When I got this transfers, it was a relief on my side knowing that my family will have plenty of food in the days to come and thus enabling me to perform other duties.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I no longer buy milk because I have bought a dairy cow, I can now save the money that I could have used to buy milk to meet other daily needs for my family.

The moment I received my money I felt so happy because I knew I would be able to buy a dairy cow and pay school for my children.

I spend my first transfer on buying a dairy cow, I used to buy milk and it was costly for me and the remaining amount I paid school fees for my children and bought food.