I have a single lactating cow that has consistently provided milk for my family of four during its peak seasons. Providing adequate feeds has been so expensive since its production is not enough to pay for its upkeep. I have a new goal to improve production by buying two other Friesian cows. Managing more than one is cheaper and, hopefully, their production will yield a good profit margin that will facilitate further expansion in the future.

GiveDirectly did a great job in our village. Many people transformed their households in their unique ways using the cash transfer that came with the freedom of spending independently without following any script. GiveDirectly reached out to everyone in the village without relying on the village leaders. The process was smooth and friendly in that the visiting officers used the language understood by everyone, thus easy to converse and respond to their questions. GiveDirectly should keep doing the good work in other villages without changing anything since the execution was perfect and welcomed by everyone.

Upon receiving the second transfer, I had an ongoing construction of the main house I had initiated with the first transfer. Completing it was so costly that it left me with a small amount just enough to put up a small kitchen after buying 18 iron sheets. Initially, I was living in a single house that I used both as a kitchen and a living room. I had to demolish the structure and put up a more decent one with more rooms for my family of four. I am happy that I am currently finishing up on the kitchen construction and will soon be operational.

It was around 7:30 am and I was at home preparing tea for my family when suddenly I received a phone call. I answered it and immediately after the call hang up is when I saw the SMS with the good news. I was so happy and I could not believe that I had received KES 55000 on my mobile money account. I shared the news with my husband who was also so excited about it. We thanked God because we now knew that we were going to fulfill the plans that we had made.

The biggest difference that the transfer has brought into my life and that of my family is that we managed to build a kitchen house. We thus no longer cook on the verandah which was making the iron sheets of the new house to be filled with smoke.

We spent KES 30000 on doing some finishing on the main house that we had built. We bought ceiling boards and placed them in the house. We have been building the house for quite some time now, we usually build it bit by bit depending on the money that we get. With the remaining transfer amount, we used it on building a kitchen house. We bought iron sheets at KES 15000 and we also bought the timber frames at KES 30000. We had some amount that we had saved so we added it to transfer so that it could be enough. We have always been meaning to build a kitchen house but we have not been able to since we didn't have enough money and we wanted to finish the construction of the main house first. We have thus been using the verandah as our kitchen and I was getting worried since the smoke had started destroying the iron sheets of the new house. We are hence so much grateful to GiveDitectly because their transfer was of great help to us.