The biggest difference in my daily life is having enough food to feed my family. We have been having the challenge of having this challenge because the income I got my casual jobs was not enough. Also, due to the small piece of land that I have, I could not manage to plant my own maize crop thus I have been relying only on buying it. Thanks to GiveDirectly. The transfer assisted me to purchase three sacks of maize that can sustain us for some months now.

I received the message notification early in the morning. I quickly checked the message notification because I was surprised who would have to text me this early in the morning. Upon checking, it was notifying me that I have received money from GiveDirectly. I felt very happy because I knew that some of my dreams will be fulfilled.

I spent part of my transfer on purchasing a dairy cow. Buying milk everyday is very expensive. My main source of income is doing casual jobs. Getting this casual jobs sometimes is very difficult because a lot of people in my area also rely on this for a living thus there is a lot of competition. Lastly, I spent the other part to lease a piece of land. I have been yearning to have a piece of land to cultivate maize since the one we have was small. This lets us to be buying maize every now and then. I would like to thank GiveDirectly because with the transfers it enabled me to achieve my dreams.