The biggest difference in my life is that l managed to plant sugarcane in two hectares of land that I have never done in my life. I am very sure once I started harvesting them, my life will definitely change because I am sure I will get enough money out of it and spend the money to catter for my family needs. I am now hopefull that this my starting point of doing large scale farming in sugarcane and I will not stop at this point since l would want to put up my own house from this and also do other investments such as livestock keeping.

In my opinion Give directly did very well by training people before starting the program, at least they created awareness of what they were doing. They also did well by dealing with people directly and not forcing people to get into the program. I did not see what Give directly did not do well.

I spent most of the cash transfer to lease two hectares of land where I have planted sugarcane in a large scale. I have never planted sugarcane in that scale because I had a very small farm and even a part from having a small piece of land, I was not able to cultivate a bigger portion of land using my own hands as I used to work before when I had a small piece of land. So also hired a tractor that tilled the whole farm being that it was too big that I was not able to caltivate it using my hand. I am very grateful to give directly for helping achieve my dream of longing to plant cassava in large scale. I am very sure of getting enough produce that I will sell to the community and act as a source of income for my family expenditure. The remaining balance I spent in buying decent clothes being that I did not have any decent clothes to put on when going for a visit or going for a function .

The biggest difference in my daily life is the feeling of safety because I'm currently staying in a new safe and comfortable house. I'm not worried anymore whenever it rains that the house might fall on us or might be blown off by wind, and we do not have to spend a lot of time too, parking my household stuff in one safe corner whenever it rains so that they couldn't be ruined by the rain as it was the case previously.

I always switch my phone off at exactly 10:00 pm so in the morning when I switched it on I was glad to receive a confirmation message that I had received money from GiveDirectly. I felt so happy and thanked God for such a miracle. I knew this marked the end of the shame of staying in a leaking house.

I constructed a new house with the money I received from GiveDirectly because the previous house was old with some parts already falling off. I felt it was so risky staying with the kids in that house and most of the times especially while it was raining I was worried about our safety because I was afraid the house could fall on us or it could be blown off by the wind. I'm happy and proud I have provided good shelter for my children.