Currently, we are living in a grass touched house which has a licking roof. Whenever it rains it is not saved for us as the whole place would be wet forcing us to converge at a corner with my kids. I am planning to save my next transfers so that I would spend to purchase other building materials to add on which I had purchased earlier. I will then build a better house which would be safer and comfortable for us.

Since we started receiving the transfer from GD, we opted to pool part of our transfer as beneficiaries of Give Directly so that we can raise a good amount which would enable one to start a meaningful project or pay school fees. I received KES 10000 as savings which I spent on buying food for the family as we had none at the time when we receive the transfers. Apart from buying food, I also paid some school fees and bought school uniform for my children. Now I am happy that my children are looking good in their new uniform and they won't be sent home since I have cleared their school fees.

I expect in the next six months I would have to build a better house. And as a parent, I would be happier and thankful to Give Directly for the support which we have received.

My life is currently different in that I have been relieved from paying school fees after my child completed his tertiary level of education. This has enabled me to have other plans for myself and the family and to save more money from my daily casual work to make other family investments. I have therefore been able to expand my brick making business by hiring one casual who helps me in the production process. I am looking forward to building a brick walled house over the next four to six months. I know this is highly possible and I will work hard to make sure that I accomplish it.

In the next four months I am planning to make more bricks up to 10000 bricks that will enable me build a brick walled house. I will only require 3000 bricks to build a new permanent ans spacious house. The extra 7000 bricks shall be sold to meet the cost of other building materials. I have a piece of land to help me make the bricks already and I will use the GiveDirectly transfers to pay a casual that is going to help me produce the bricks. This, I am optimistic shall be accomplished in the next four months.

The biggest difference in my daily life over the last four months is that I have been able to start a poultry keeping project and improved my brick making business. I was able to start a poultry keeping project by starting with building of a poultry house from the monthly transfers that I received and buying chicken later. I now have diverse source of income and looking forward to expanding my income base through other family investments. My brick making business has equally improved since I now have been able to hire a casual to help me in brick making business. I am working towards producing enough bricks that will enable me buy other building materials and build a brick walled house in the near future.

I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I shall have built a new brick walled house. The house that we are currently staying in as a family is too old and a grass thatched one. During the rainy seasons, the roof is often leaking and this has been giving us a lot of discomfort as a family. We have not been able to build a new one in the recent past since we were struggling to pay school fees for our child and now that she has completed her education, we can be able to divert all the resources towards building a new house.

My life is different in that I can now provide for my family like any other mother can. I can afford some of the most basic needs such as food and clothes for the family. Self esteem of my children has been greatly boosted following the transfers which has allowed me to provide them with things that were hard to come by for us. We feel more proud of ourselves than we were four months a go when we had literally nothing to take pride in. sleeping hungry has been a thing of the past for us. We now have more income generating opportunities making us self reliant than in the past.

We are currently living in a small grass thatched house that has had its roof leaking of late. In the next four months I want to struggle a lot to save up and assemble the neccesary resources for building a new house. In the next four months, we should be good to start building a new and more spacious house. This would bring more comfort to my family and make us happier and equal to other people in our society. I know this is going to be achieved now that I am relieved by one of my children who just cleared high school. Money that was used in paying her school fees will be directed towards the construction of this new house. I am also optimistic that she will get a job and give me a helping hand to accomplish this task

Four months a go we did not have an asset in form of a cow. We are now happy that this has been brought into reality through the monthly merry go round that was initiated after the commencement of GiveDirectly transfers. Being one of the first people to benefit from this, I decided that we were going to buy a cow that could help us have milk. The milk has assisted us a lot in having a balanced diet for the family and buying other family needs through the proceeds from the sale of milk produced by the cow. Money that was meant to buy milk always has also been diverted into other meaningful investments that are so helpful to the family in the long run. This has been the biggest difference in my daily life over the last four months.

I am looking forward to having a new house in the next six months. I look forward to raising a more happy and healthy family. A family that I can be proud of and in which my children can be proud of me.

My life currently is different since I now have decent clothes to wear when going to church or any special event.

The new goals I now have is to buy a cow since the one I have belongs to someone else.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that my children now days are clean since they no longer lack a soap to wash their clothes.

I expect my life to change in that I will have bought a calf.

I want to build a new house within the six months since i currently live in a tattered house.

Right now i am more hopeful that my child will finish college with the help of the transfers. I am more happy now that we have a helping hand from Givedirectly.

I will be owning a cow in the next six months, this will be a source of food and even income, i will be more comfortable and wont need to work too hard like i do now.

I am glad the transfers came at the right time for my the many needs i had, i am now comfortable that atleast i will have something at the end of each month. it gives some comfort.