My next goal is for me to add one more dairy cow. I plan on achieving this goal by selling my farm produce. I am so grateful for the timely transfer that impacted my life amazingly.

GiveDirectly gave us unconditional transfer at the stipulated timelines. Our social economic status was lifted tremendously thus we are grateful. In my Interaction with the staff, I have not witnessed anything that was not done well.

I am a consistent farmer and my husband is a shopkeeper in the village. Together we are blessed with two children. Buying milk daily for our consumption has been very expensive. This is because we buy one litre at KES 60 daily. Hence l opted to buy a dairy cow worth KES 45,000. Lastly, I used the remaining amount to buy foodstuffs. All this was not possible before due to financial constraints, but I am happy and grateful that I was able to accomplish all this with support from GiveDirectly.

It was 4:49 pm and I was out in the field looking after my cows as they graze. I had left my phone in the house. Suddenly my sister-in-law called unto me asking if the message that she got saying that she had received money from Segovia Technology was real. She was in the company of my brother-in-law. I decided to go get my phone so that I could check if I had received such kind of an SMS. I checked it and indeed there was a message saying that I had received KES 55000 from the same. I could not believe that I had received such a huge sum of money. I had to check my mobile money balance thrice so that I could believe it. I was so happy and I came back to my sister-in-law and brother-in-law and I told them that the money was real. We celebrated together and we thanked God and GiveDirectly for blessing us. I then called my husband immediately and I informed him of the good news. He was so happy too on learning about it.

The biggest difference that the transfer brought into our lives is that we managed to complete the construction of the house that we had left pending for a while due to a lack of money. We also managed to build another kitchen. We are hence relieved and happy because we now have new houses that are roofed with iron sheets. Our living standard has thus been uplifted and we are very thankful to GiveDirectly for that.

We spent most of the recent transfer money on completing the construction of a house that we had started building before. We also constructed another kitchen house. We bought 40 ceiling boards, some iron sheets, and timber. We decided to build other houses because the ones that we had, had grown old and were grass-thatched. We did not manage to continue with the construction of the house because we lacked money. I usually practice farming where I usually grow vegetables and potatoes and sell them to get money. My husband on the other end is casually employed as a shopkeeper. The money that we get from our income-earning activities is only enough to buy food and other household goods. We are hence glad that we managed to complete the construction of the main house and we built another kitchen too. With the remaining amount of money, we used it in buying 20 tins of maize for our consumption and barbed wire for fencing our compound. We decided to fence the compound so that we could prevent the cows from coming to the compound and destroying the flowers that we have planted. We are hence grateful to GiveDirectly for their great help.