Now that we have a larger house which we recently constructed, we felt that the house was slightly empty because the furniture we had before now occupies just a little section of the living room. For this reason, we decided to buy one more table and two seats to occupy the space.

We are planning to plaster our house so we have agreed to combine our transfers henceforth and buy the required materials such as sand and cement and complete the project before the transfers are over. We just recently constructed the house with the help of the transfers that we have been receiving from Give Directly and we want to make the best out of the rest of our transfers so that when the project is over, we will have something to be proud of.

I am a member of a table banking group where we make monthly savings, but because I work as a hairdresser, I mostly earn very little that is usually just enough for my needs which makes it hard to make my payments on time. With the help of these transfers, I have managed to pay for the monthly contributions in time and without failure and at the same time managing to take care of my family's needs without difficulties.

My wish is that the entire house will have been plastered in the next six months so that when the project ends, will we have something to be proud of having achieved with our transfers. I know that when the project ends, it will be tough making enough saving to buy the required materials to plaster the house, so we need to do all we can to complete the plastering before then.

I was able to save some of my previous transfers which enabled me to buy extra seats in my house and now we have enough chairs for my family and my children don't have to sit on the floor as they did before, especially during mealtime. I have also managed to enrol for a course in hairdressing which I would not have managed to take without GD transfers.

We have plans of plastering our current mud house to make it more durable, presentable and easy to maintain. My husband and I have agreed that we will be combining our transfers for the next few months so that we can be able to buy the necessary materials for the plastering before the project is over.

Because I have no source of income, I mostly depended on my husband in the past for household and personal needs which made it impossible to make plans of my own or buy what I needed at my own time. These transfers have allowed me to be helpful to my family as I am also able to assist in buying the household requirements and also given me the independence to buy my own needs without having to request for money from my husband. Being independent has brought much peace between my husband and I as we no longer argue over monetary issues.

Completing plastering my entire house will be the best thing to happen to my family and I. I hope that we will have accomplished that in the next six months so that I can relax knowing that I spent GD transfers on something worthwhile even long after the project is over.

I stay with my niece who is a total orphan. She depends on me as the only aunt who is alive. Paying her schools has been a major challenge given that I do not have a stable job. Ever since I started receiving my transfer there has been a very huge difference, I have comfortably paid her school fees and even had extra money to purchase a ram for rearing.

In the next six months, I am hopeful that I will have beautified my house by plastering the floor that currently looks pathetic with portals all over and my niece will no longer be sent home for school fees for I will have paid upfront.

My life is currently different from how it was before I started receiving my transfers. This is because paying school fees has become so much easy since I started receiving transfers unlike before I had to work two jobs that were not even paying so well to be able to sustain my household and pay my niece's school fees as well.

I currently do not have any new goals apart from what I had previously that is to purchase a ram for rearing and being able to save towards my niece's school fees.