GiveDirectly is really a champion of development as attributed by the kind of lifestyle we are living now. As they said people rice from grass to grace, so do we. We have made significant changes since we started receiving the transfers which in my opinion; were it not for this money we would not have done anything better. Both subsistence and livestock farming which we have always rely on was failing but after getting the transfers, things turn around and even without good production from our farms, we were still able to buy enough foodstuff for the household.

GiveDirectly, in my opinion, has really done a great job in our village. It has changed the lives of many by enabling them to conquer a lot which was seemingly hard for them in the past. It was a good idea and it's our feeling that GiveDIrectly made a good decision by giving people money and allowing them to decide on their own on how to spend. This brought diversification in the village in that everyone was trying his best to see his money improving their livelihood. Although we are celebrating the great outcome after receiving the money, we are still feeling that GiveDirectly could have done their work better by ensuring that everyone completes the started projects. Some members of the village were at first seeing the money as a big sum of money until they start spending that they realized that it wasn't going to complete what they had started. GiveDirectly would have come back and by so doing they would have found a need to still fund the incomplete projects and leaving everyone smiling of the great accomplishment.

Before receiving the transfer from GiveDirectly, I was really struggling a lot in sourcing water both for use in the farm and for domestic purposes. I decided to spend the first 10000 KES of my second transfer on buying an irrigation pump which at the moment is a multipurpose pump. I am using it both in irrigating my small piece of land and pumping water to the cattle troughs. I have stopped walking for long distances in search of water for the livestock since the pump has brought a lot of simplicity. I also bought maize worth 6000 KES, clothing, and mattress worth 24000 KES, household goods and decided to save the remaining 21000 KES since we have a plan to construct a new house in our household.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that these transfers have enabled to replace iron sheets, plough land using a tractor and as transport to and fro the hospital.

When I received the money I was very excited because I had never handled such an amount even from my business.

I spent KES 16000 on buying iron-sheets and labor for hire, KES 3000 spent on a bag of maize corn, KES 3900 on three mattresses, KES 3000 on a sheep, KES 3000 on tractor for hire, KES 10,000 on transport to and from a far hospital,and the rest on clothes and clothes.