Yes, after getting the second transfer I developed some goals that I aim to achieve once I get some money. If I get money, I plan to invest it in farming both crop farming and livestock farming. For livestock, I will specify goats raring because goats can cope well with the climatic condition in our area because they can survive in drought areas, unlike cows.

I am grateful for the support I received from GiveDirectly. Using the first transfer, I was able to build a nice house because the one I had was collapsing, and renovating it was not a better option for me. Through GiveDirectly, I have managed to do some of the things that I thought were undoable. Our community looks beautiful, not like before when it had poorly structured houses. GiveDirectly transformed us.

When I received and withdrew the second transfer, I first did some agriculture since I rely on subsistence farming to feed my family. I bought some seeds and fertilizer to boost my farming for proper production. I also bought a water tank of capacity 240 liters and 10 buckets for KES 3500.00. I bought these drums for storing water because water scarcity has been a problem in our area. Apart from that, I bought two bales of maize flour for KES 4200.00 to ensure food security at home because drought hit our area and we did not harvest as we expected. Besides buying a goat for KES 3800.00, I also bought some clothes for the whole family because the ones we had were overused.

I was on my way home from fetching water when I received a message. I was tired after walking for many kilometers to and from the river and I didn't bother to open the message since I didn't think it was important and I wanted to get home first so that I can relax. As I was relaxing, I opened the messager and found out that I had received my first transfer. I was happy that finally, I was going to build a house.

The biggest difference is that I have a house and I nolonger sleep in my mother in-law's kitchen. I hated the fact that I was inconveniencing my mother in-law and there was nothing I could do. I am happy that she's back to cooking from her kitchen and nolonger cooks from outside.

When my weak muddy house crumbled two years ago, I had to move to my mother in-law's kitchen with my husband and our two children because we could not afford to build another house. I didn't think we could stay there for long because I thought my husband who is a mechanic would manage to build us at least a single room. Two years below the line, we were still living in the same house and we had lost hope because my husband was getting very few jobs. When I was enrolled, my goal was to build a house for my family and I spend all my second transfer to build a semi-permanent one bedroom house. I'm happy now that I have a house I can call mine and my family has enough shared space to live in.