Despite accomplishing my goal of owning a decent house for my family, my new goal is to construct two separate one for my 4 children one for the boys and the other for the girls. Currently, my girls are spending their night in the kitchen and their clothes are always duty with smoke. Similarly, the boys are seeking shelter from my neighbors. Most of the time they have been going to school late since it is hard to travel to the neighbor's house to wake them up in the morning. This make them to constantly being punish at school for coming late.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly did well conducting a community meeting as well as explaining the program fully to us before the actual enrollment. Furthermore, the organization did not require us to pay back the money. I feel there is nothing that it did not do well.

For over 3 years now, I had desired to acquire a motorbike for my husband engage in a taxi business. I had not been able to achieve this dream since I lack the financial capacity. After receiving my transfer, I spent KES 45,000 to purchase a second-hand motorbike for my spouse. He was depending on charcoal vending a job that is very tiresome for him. Furthermore, I used KES 2,000 to support the of my 4 kids by clearing their fee arrears. With the remaining amount I bought school uniforms and shoes for each one of them since they had old and worn out clothes.

It was around 10am; just conversing with friends at home not having any constructive or income generating activity to do and I had plugged my phone in the power socket because it had no power. One of my friends made a funny happy sound that surprised me, only to realize that she had received her transfer from GiveDirectly. The others also confirmed receiving their transfers too something that made me to go and switch on my phone to confirm. The 1st message that popped in was the GiveDirectly transfer message. I was very happy and I made some arrangements and withdrew the money on the same day.

Having a spacious house of two rooms and a sitting room is a big difference in my life. The initial one despite being collapsing it was also very small and it hardly accommodates us all well. It was our main house as well as the kitchen, you can just imagine how the situation was when it comes to sleeping time, a house full of smoke that is as a result of the cooking process that had taken place plus the heat, and then we were there to seep. It was pathetic but thanks to GiveDirectly for seeing us through this situation.

Since my house was small and was collapsing on one of the sides, I opted to construct a new house so that I may live in a secure place. I bought 20 pieces of iron sheets for KES 20000.00, poles and rafters for KES 10600.00. I also took KES 3000.00 and paid school fees for my 4 primary school children. The remaining amount catered for the contractor and some food for the family.