My life is currently different because I have finally achieved my greatest need; A new decent house to live in with my family. In addition, I also have a pair of oxen to use for ploughing. I am expecting to plough my whole acreage during the planting season. By doing this early and timely, I am assured of getting enough harvest to feed my family. Also, my children are comfortably in school studying without any interruptions unlike before when they would be constantly sent home for fees since I could not pay for them on time.

GiveDirectly does well in its role of eradicating poverty by giving out transfers to the needy households. They have done well in choosing and enrolling those in needy and uplifting their lives, such as building decent houses. I do not see any thing that GiveDirectly does not do well.

I spent KES 48000 of my second transfer to buy building materials in order to construct a new decent house. I did not have a good house, since the one I was sheltering in was in a bad condition and my desire was to at least have a better home. This dream was fulfilled by the coming of GiveDirectly since I managed to buy enough building materials that include iron sheets, timber, nails and building poles to facilitate this. I spent the remaining amount to purchase some foodstuffs,for meeting some other basic needs for my family as well as paying for household expenses.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I managed to take my daughter to the hospital, she had gone through an operation and she is now recovering and progressing well. I can't wait to see her happy again. I feel relieved since I had once taken her for the same procedure but I could not afford it. Thanks to GiveDirectly, my daughter is now well.

The moment I received my transfer I felt very happy. It was late in the night when I had the message alert on my phone. I could not hide my joy when I realized it was a notification message from Give directly informing me they had sent the money. I decided to stay calm in fact I went back to sleep and digest the good news.

I spent part of my transfer to purchasing two bulls. I want to rest from tilling my farm on my own. I also do not have enough money to hire labor every season because hiring labor is normally expensive. Since I don't have a stable job raising such an amount is not easy. In addition to that, I also paid school fees for my children. One of the then had already been sent home due to fee arrears. Although my other children had not been sent home, they also had huge fee balances. I am glad that I was able to send them back to school courtesy of giving Directly's transfer. I also paid some medical bills for my daughter who is admitted in the hospital. She has gone through an operation to remove growth which had developed. In a few week's time, she will be home, I am glad that she will now not have to answer a lot of question from people who used to wonder all about the growth. I finally started a business of selling sisal to boost my charcoal business. Since the business had gone down because trees are no longer there.