I love livestock keeping since it is more productive in our area as compared to crop farming. I used KES23500 to buy a cow and a goat to add to my herd. I am happy that I have an added assets that I will rely on in terms of milk production and offsprings. Looking at this bigger herd gives me the biggest difference in my daily life. I feel I have security to face any financial crisis arising in my family as well earning more through daily milk sales.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly has greatly changed our society. We have been able to provide for our families effectively, purchasing livestock as assets and most importantly, building better iron-roofed houses thus enjoying good shelter. I do not see anything that GiveDirectly does not do well.

Paulo Kipkirui Rotich, 20000 to buy a cow, 3500 to buy a goat, 20000 to settle an hospital bills I love livestock keeping since it is more productive in our area as compared to crop farming. I used KES23500 to buy a cow and a goat to add to my herd. I am happy that I have an added assets that I will rely on in terms of milk production and offsprings. I had a son who had been sick and we had a gone for medication with agreement to pay the bill later. Having gotten the transfer, I used KES20000 to settle the bill. Even though my son succumbed to the illness, I am happy that GiveDirectly gave a handy hand settling the bill.I used the remaining amount on my family basic needs; food clothing among other expenses.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that my family now lives in our newly built house comfortably. In addition to this, my visitors will always have shelter whenever they visit. At the same time, my family also have the privacy they need for themselves. Thanks to GiveDirectly for financing my long desired dream which used to seem impossible.

It was around 5 o'clock in the morning when I had gone outside to relieve myself when I realized that I had an unread message on my phone since I was using it as a torch. Upon reading its contents, I realized that it was from GiveDirectly indicating that I had finally received the money they had promised us. My heart was filled with happiness as I knew that the money would help me achieve my dream of building a spacious house for my family.

I spent part of my first transfer to buy building materials such as timbers, nails, iron sheets and I also paid workers for this work of building my new beautiful spacious house for my family. I settled on this because the house we were living in was small and could not accommodate all family members. In addition to this, I used some amount to buy a pair of chair and a table since I did not have them. I decided on this so that people would have something to sit on. As a way of celebrating these blessings, I bought one sack of maize for my family's consumption, clothes and shoes for all my family members. I used the remaining amount of the transfer to buy farm inputs which majorly included bean and maize seeds and in hiring a tractor to help me till my farm in preparation to plant.