In my life, I had never been able to own livestock that is much-needed for a young family where there is a large demand for milk for my young children. My children are going to grow well and have healthy lives because I am able to provide milk and other foodstuffs that I can buy using the money from selling the farm products. This changed my life completely because I had been struggling to buy and keep a dairy cow without any such success for a really long time. I am better off after receiving the transfers than if I haad never received it.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly did so well in that they helped us unconditionally. The fact that they gave us a lot of cash that we will not be asked to return. I gave us power in our hands to do all the things we needed to better our lives.

I spent the money I received on buying two cows. I am a recently married man with a lot of responsibilities. Providing for my family is now my top priority. I needed to have livestock that gives milk for food and for sale to make an income. I also bought some chicken to ensure that will also contribute to income through the sale of eggs and even chicken themselves. I then bought foodstuffs that lasted for about a month and a half.

Among the many changes which we have seen after receiving the money from GiveDirectly, the biggest difference in my daily life is the purchase of a cow. This to us is a great solution to the many financial problems we have been facing. Apart from the source of milk for our domestic use, we also expect to be selling the surplus to at least earn us some income.

At the moment of receiving our money from GiveDirectly, our happiness was unmeasurable, everyone woke up unusually earlier that day to witness the great blessing which had come to our household. After eagerly waiting for quite a length of time, the money finally came and it really changed the atmosphere in our household. This to us was a confirmation of God's faithfulness in answering prayers now that we have been praying for a long time and wishing that our prayers would be answered one day. We are really thankful to GiveDirectly for also keeping their promise and delivering exactly as they had promised.

After receiving our first transfer, we sat with all my household members to lay down plans on the best way to spend. suggestions from every member were almost similar and ours as the heads of the household was to just create a priority list. We decided to spend the first patch of it in the construction of the chicken coop to enable us to improve our already existing poultry farming. Second in the list was to try and cut the cost of milk we have been buying for a long time. Working with the budget, we decided to spend 30000 KES on buying a good breed of a cow, barbed wire and woods which facilitated the fencing of the grazing area. Foodstuff also was on the list and after stocking enough maize, we decided to save some money to check any upcoming emergency.