My current life is different from how it was four months ago in that I can now invite relatives in my home with the confidence that they will spend the night in my house and not at the neighibours. I have a house that can comfortably accomodate them plus my children.The change I have also seen in my children's life. They are able to dress well. They are clean and can be seen whenever people are after I managed to buy them new clothes using the money I receieved from GiveDirectly.

I have a daughter who has just cleared her last exams in primary and soon is transitioning to high school. This is my current focus and goal, to see her complete her secondary school education God willing. I am working so hard to see complete this and share her success in her education. This I am hoping to achieve in the next four months as time is also moving so fast.

When you do not have money, you long to have a lot of things, but given that you cannot afford, the only thing you can do is to sit and pray for a miracle to happen which never comes. I had a very small house, too squeezed to comfortably fit my family and even allow me to host visitors. I had to request neighbours to host my visitors, something some of my neighbours never taken so kindly and at some point, relatives could not visit me frequently. I wanted them around and close to me, spend the night under my roof whenever they visited, this is why I built a new house when I received GiveDirectly transfers. Spacious enough, now I have two houses. My children have a place, very comfortable where they can sleep and my visitors too can spend the nights with me in my compound, under my roof. What a relief. The same house now have comfortable seats with cushions. The house is also neat. GiveDirectly came to my rescue.

In the next six months, I am not certain my daughter shall have joined high school then,but I am hopeful that this is the change I will see. Seeing her off in the morning and welcoming her back from school in the evening. It shall have changed my life as I will be able to work more harder and see that this comes to a reality.

The biggest difference in my daily life since I started receiving the money is that I feel financially relieved because I was able to construct a kitchen. Being a widow it's so challenging meeting all the household needs.

In the next six months, I expect to have bought a cow as a way of investment for the future. I also expect to have bought a solar lump to give my children easy time while they are studying without any worries that they might run out of paraffin as it is currently.

I now have a kitchen which I wouldn't have if didn't receive money from GiveDirectly. I'm able to meet most of my households needs much easier because I'm getting better income from the business. This is how different my life is had I not received the money from GiveDirectly.

I have a new hgoal of buying livestock as away of investment. I have been having this goal but since I couldn't afford it I didn't know I would achieve it but now that I'm expecting money from GD I believe I will achieve it.