The piece of land which I bought, I have planted some maize in it and this means that I have more space for farming.

Give Directly did well by giving us money with no conditions on its expenditure. Everyone has different needs which differ in priorities which one has to fulfil. For me there wasn't any negative issue which I noted about Give Directly.

The second transfer which I received from Give Directly I spent the whole amount to buy a piece of land. I and sold some before I got this transfers due to pressing needs like food and shelter. I was remaining with a small portion and when I received my second payment I opted to buy some to repay that which I had sold. I am happy that I got more land for farming.

A happy family is what I had lost hope on after passing of my wife. Since then many things have been going contrary to our expectation. Talk of the balanced died which my children used to enjoy which came to an end, the milk they used to take but came to an end when I sold the only cow to pay their school fees and also their consistent study time in school which came to an end when I failed to pay their school fees in time. Seeing all these settled and back to our old lifestyle is the biggest thing that has happened in my daily life. Thank you GiveDirectly for choosing to work with our village.

I have been living as a single parent since September 2016 after the mother of my children passed on. Things have not been that easy since our children are still young and can't do anything to sustain themselves. It has been a period of toiling and moiling on the farms to bring food on the table. I have never gotten a chance to work on the casual labor jobs since I have got to be present any other time at home to look after them. I thank God I have been able to do all that by myself. When we received this money I was really very happy together with my children who would see anyone on a reflector even the motorcycle riders and they would shout "GiveDirectly!" To me, it was the beginning of the good things in our household. Happiness was overwhelming that I could not think of anything in the first week and I had to wait for sometimes before collecting the money from the Mpesa. We are really thankful that you finally brought back the lost smile into our household.

Receiving the money was a great blessing to our family, it saw most of our struggles become problems of the past. After living in an old and torn house which was in the worst of condition for a long time, we decided to spend a good portion of the money in erecting a decent structure where we will be living henceforth. We spent part of the money we received from GiveDirectly in buying 24 iron sheets and part of the remaining in buying enough woods to construct a house. We also spent part of the remaining amount in purchasing three sheep. we are now done with the construction of the house and rearing the fast-growing sheep in our homestead. My three children are still in primary school, one in private boarding school - thank God GiveDirectly came in since I have been paying a bit larger sum of money to the one in private boarding compared to the others who are in public primary school. We still have some money which we saved for buying foodstuff which has sustained us for the rest of the time as we work hard on our farm to generate other food.