Now that I have my own piece of land and some livestock bought using the transfer from GiveDirectly, my new goal is to build a house in that piece of land. I am currently living in my father's land which does not allow me the flexibility of doing any kind of development that I would wish to. Having this house will give the independence and freedom to do my own developments.

What I loved most of about GiveDirectly is the freedom and the trust that they gave us to chose what to spend the money on. This entrusts us the responsibility to spend it prudently and in thing that improves our lives.

When I received the first transfer from GiveDirectly, I was able to purchase a piece of land but I could not pay the whole amount needed then. When I received the second transfer therefore, I first paid the Ksh. 15000 owed for the piece of land. I also bought a dairy cow for KSh. 26,000. This will ensure we have an assured supply of milk for my family. I used the rest of the transfer to buy three young goats for rearing, hopefully they multiply and get the sell then in the future for a profit.

It was around 6 am and I was about to wake up when I heard my phone hence notifying me of a new message. I reached out for it from where I had placed it the previous night and I checked what the SMS could all be about. I was surprised when I opened it and I found out that it was indicating that we had received the promised transfer of KES 55000 from GiveDirectly. I was so happy and I immediately informed my wife of the good news. She was so happy too and we thanked God. We now knew that we were going to fulfill the plans that we had made.

The biggest difference that the transfer has brought into our lives is that we now have land of our own. We thus now have the freedom to till and plant any crop that we wish to plant. This was not possible in our father's land since he is still the one in control and our family size is big. We are thus glad and grateful to GiveDirectly for making this possible for us.

We spent KES 40000 of our recent transfer on buying a piece of land. The piece of land was being sold at KES 50000 but we convinced the owner to allow us to pay KES 40000 with a promise to pay the remaining amount once we get the next transfer. We bought two points of an acre. We bought the land because we wanted land of our own. We are still living on our father's land and our family size is big. The land is still being controlled by our father and hence one does not have the freedom to till and plant anything he wants. We have been meaning to buy a piece of land of our own but we were not in a position to since we didn't have the money. I am a carpenter and I at times get hired by some schools to do roofing in their structures. The money that I usually get paid is little and is only enough to buy food and at times use some to pay school fees for my child. We are thus glad because of this program that GiveDirectly came up with for our village. Other than that, we also spent KES 7000 on buying a goat. We bought it so that we can have a source of milk for our consumption. We do not have a cow of our own and hence we have been relying on the milk that we are supplied with from home. With the remaining transfer amount, we spent it on buying food. Thank you so much GiveDirectly for your support.