The fact that I now own two cows in my compound is biggest difference. I had a wish of owning and rearing a cow one day but I never thought that would be this soon. I am already getting the fruits of rearing. Apart from the supply of milk for our use, I am able to sell the excess for an income. I am glad that in the near future, the second cow I bought will have calved and I will have a good number of litres of milk to sell. I also have one bigger house now which I did not have. I lived in one small house did not have a sitting room. The transfers from GiveDirectly made this possible.

In my opinion, I loved that everyone in the entire village was visited and received the transfer. There was no case of fraud or any such case. Everything was well done.

I spent part of the transfer received to buy a cow for rearing to add to the one initially bought with the first transfer. From the sale of milk I get from the cows, I will have an extra income to look after my family. I also built another house and a bought a phone with the rest.

In my daily life, owning a cow that produces milk twice every day is indeed the biggest difference. Before receiving the first transfer, we would always buy milk from the neighboring shopping center. This was too expensive for us to manage since we never had a consistent source of income. On some days, we would go without milk and when we managed to buy, still it wasn't enough for the whole household. We are now grateful that we currently produce enough both for domestic use and surplus for sale.

The moment I received the first transfer, I was really filled with joy. It was a great day in my life and to the household at large since we saw it as an opportunity to make our dreams come true. It was unbelievable at first but after hearing celebrations from the neighboring households, we felt it was really true and was our time too to celebrate. We are still grateful to GiveDirevtly for the great help they accorded us and it is our prayer that they continue helping other people the way they helped us.

Upon receiving the first transfer from GiveDirectly, We sat as a family and made a decision to spend the first part of it on buying a lactating cow. The decision was brought about by the fact that we had been spending a lot of money over the last few years buying milk. The second part of it went to the purchase of clothing right from the school uniform s for our children to our own clothing; we added bedding for our children since they were using the old ones. With the remaining amount, we paid school fees and ensured that we had enough foodstuff which will serve us for quite sometimes before receiving the second transfers.