My life is different from how it would have been had I not received the transfer. First, I would not have been able to build a spacious house for my family. Due to this, we would still be living in our small grass thatched house that could not accommodate us comfortably. Also, I would not have been able to expand my dairy farming project. Expanding this project is a financial security for me since I can easily sell the heifer whenever I am faced with financial crisis. Also, I will be using the income from this project to cater for my children's education.

GiveDirectly did a good job in my village. They were so friendly and had no discrimination as they served everyone equally and diligently.

When I received my second transfer, I spent a good amount to buy two dairy cows and a heifer. We settled on this as a family as a way of investing this money. I will be using the income from dairy farming to cater for my children's education. I used the remaining amount to buy food and other household necessities.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have built a better and spacious house for my family. Before we used to live in one small house which could not host all my family comfortably. Whenever I had visitors it was so embarrassing because there was nowhere to sleep. I could take them to my neighbor's house to sleep. Currently, I no longer fear to welcome visitors to my home because I have a decent and spacious house. My children are also a good place to sleep they no longer spend nights at their grandmother's house. They could walk at night to their grandmother house which was so risky for them. They could not complete their assignment because of the movement at night. Currently, they are so happy the do their assignment in time and their performance has improved so much.

I felt very happy the moment I received money from GiveDirectly. I remember very well that it was early in the morning when my neighbor called me to let me know that GiveDirectly had finally made fulfilled their promise of sending us money. I quickly hung up on him just to check and confirm whether I had received mine too. I could not believe my eyes when I checked and found out that I had received an amount of money that I had never received before. My spouse and children were also so happy knowing that we were finally going to be able to build a bigger and better house than the one we were staying in.

I used part of my first transfer to build a better house for my family. We were staying in a very small house that was quite uncomfortable for us as a family and I always had this desire of building a better one. The little income that I got from the casual works that I engage in was hardly enough to meet the basic household needs and when I received this transfer, I saw it fit to build this house. I also used part of the transfer to buy clothes and utensils considering that the ones we had were too old. After all these, I still remained with a substantive amount of money that saw me buy a heifer. I am looking forward to the day that this heifer will reproduce and give us enough milk to feed the family as well as sell the surplus to meet other family expenses.