My life is different from how it would have been had I not received the transfer because we no live in a good house. The previous one was old and not in good shape. Also, my children nowadays have enough milk for consumption unlike before. This is because I now own two dairy cows hence an increase in my milk production.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly did well by helping everyone in our village without any discrimination and I do not see anything that they did not do well.

I settled on buying a dairy cow as a remembrance of GiveDirectly using my second transfer. Also, I spent some amount to build a decent kitchen for my family. The one we had was old and it was always raining inside. Due to this, I had to always make our dinner very early during the rainy seasons and this always made us to eat cold food. I spent the remaining amount to buy food and enough seats for my family as I did not have any.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have built a better and spacious house for my family. we used to live in a small grass-thatched which was leaking from inside. I depend on small scale farming to earn a small income to meet my daily expenses. I did not have any other source of income to enable me to save to build a better house. We used to live in a small house. I have grown up children and in our culture its a taboo to sleep in one house. My children could spend nights at a neighbors house which was so risky because of movement at night. During the rainy season, cooking was a big problem because the house was leaking and lighting fire could take much time. Whenever I had family meetings I used to shy off to welcome inside the house because there was no space to accommodate them. Currently, I have a decent house, my children are no longer spending nights at the neighbors like before. I also don't feel shy to welcome visitors to my house because I have a nice home. I am so happy because GiveDirectly has changed our standard of living.

The moment I received my money I felt so happy because I have never received such an amount of money before. I remember it was very early in the morning when I heard a message from my phone, When I checked it I felt so happy because it was confirming that I have received a sum of 55000 KES from GiveDirectly. I immediately inform my spouse and children and they were all happy. I knew from that point that I will be able to build a better and spacious house for my family.

I spent my transfer to built a better and spacious house for my family. We used to live in a small grass-thatched house that was leaking from the inside. I also used part of the money to buy clothes, wire for fencing my compound and the rest of the money I used it to buy food for the family. because we had nothing left in store.