After successfully meeting my most pressing needs which included constructing a house and sorting my children's school fees for the whole year, I now have an additional goal to purchase proper bedding for my children. They currently sleep on a mat which they spread on the floor. Even though I still do not have a reliable source of income but I am planning to raise money from casual work to purchase the bedding since they are not as expensive as their school fees.

In my opinion, the great work by Indirectly resulted in a huge transformation in our village. Allowing people to decide on how to spend their money was the best idea because it enabled people to meet most of the needs they never imagined they could accomplish. I never knew that I would ever own a house. Sharing the same room with two other co-wives is the most demeaning thing I have ever experienced in life. On the other hand, I have not heard of any complaints about the organization.

My spouse has three wives and each of us has more than five children. We all depend on him, but he also does not have a reliable source of income. This made it challenging for him to meet most of our needs including constructing a house for each of us hence the three of us had to share a house. Our children too owed the school a huge fee balance which subjected them to missing most lessons because on various occasions they would be sent home for school fees. Therefore, I spent 30000 KES on clearing their school fees and even paid enough for the next academic year. I am glad their performance improved at the end of the term. 16000 KES I spent on two goats for rearing with a projection of selling some of their young ones in the future once they will have given birth to help me raise my children's school fees and other household expenses. The remaining 8500 KES I paid for construction labor of a new house since I had bought all the necessary building materials with the first transfer. Owning a house is my greatest pride. I am more independent now that I no longer share a house with my co-wives.

As I was resting from fetching some water at around 9am, I received a message in my phone. Lucky enough my helper wasn’t far, I contacted him and he checked the message so as to interpret for me. After reading he looked at me and slightly smiled. I involuntarily smiled back too. “You have received the money that you were promised by the people who came and registered you.” He said. My mind reflected back and remembered that, GiveDirectly staff came with this transfer information and I was registered. I jumped up in happiness knowing that some pending issues that I was unable to do them because of money were going to be solved.

The fact of me owning a decent house is was a dream that came true. I really desired to have a nice spacious house but the means of getting it was a puzzle. Thanks to GiveDirectly for fulfilling my dream though the house is still incomplete but I am sure with the second transfer, all is going to work well and my dream will be fully fulfilled.

When I withdrew the money, I opted to buy some construction materials so that I build a good new house since the one I had was small and congested. I bought some materials for KES 30000.00. I also bought four goats for KES 12000.00 and paid KES 6000.00 school fees for my children and used the rest in buying some food.