Without GD, I would not have been able to complete my house as at now. I was also able to connect water to our compound with the money we received from GiveDirectly and we are optimistic to have clean drinking water in our compound. GiveDirectly has changed my life significantly in many ways.

In my opinion GiveDirectly did so well in giving us money in lump sum which enabled us to do tangible developments that we have always desired to do. On the other hand I do not see anything that GiveDirectly did not do so well that I have reservations on.

I used all of my second transfer to complete my newly built house by doing the finishing on the ceiling and the walls. I had embarked on building a new house but it did not reach its completion after I ran short of cash. I therefore decided to bring it to completion once I got my second transfer that has enabled me to bring it to completion.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that ever since we received this transfer we have been able to plant maize in our farms. This has enabled food security since we are not going to do casual jobs anymore. Our children are no longer sleeping hungry, in fact, we can afford three meals a day more than ever.

When I received my first transfer, I was really overjoyed. I have never received such an amount of money in my entire life. in fact, I had to call someone to escort me to an M-Pesa agent for security purposes. That was a turn around in my life since my dream had finally come through.

I spent my first transfer on putting up electricity in my home. Ever since we built our house I've always wanted to have electricity. Use of paraffin as a source of light is very expensive and is a pollutant at the time. Therefore, it was our biggest joy when we did put up the electricity. We also spent it on food since our area has a history of drought. We didn't want to have an experience like the one we had the previous year. We spent almost every night sleeping hungry.