"I am a small-scale farmer, I depend on livestock for a living but currently, with the drought, all my livestock died due to dehydration. This devastated me. After that, I could no longer afford food for my family. My children are in the city doing casual jobs and from time to time they send money for our upkeep which is not always enough. I stay with my wife alone. Receiving this money has enabled me to get back to farming, bought fifteen goats at $450, and bought food for $100."

"I would love to expand my business and more stock to the business. If the business continues to nourish, within three months I can be able to accomplish this."

"GiveDirectly is a well-organized establishment, the first meeting we have with them, they were so welcoming and kind. I appreciate everything they are doing and I wish that a lot of people have an opportunity to receive the transfer."

"I am a farmer. I cultivate crops such as maize, pigweed, and spinach. But with current drought we are facing, I can no longer farm due to shortage of water. I ventured into other business selling timber which gives me a profit of $20 a week. This money is spent on food for my family. I have seven children, all attending school. My husband sells traditional medicine and the income he gets from his business is spent on paying school fees. The money we generate is not enough to take care of all our needs, and sometimes, we accumulate a lot of debt from school fees to food. With this transfer, I was able to pay all the debts which were $170, bought clothes for myself and the children that cost $30, and bought food with the rest of the money."

"Give Directly has changed people's lives in this village. It has eradicated poverty. It has helped people to build iron sheets-roofed houses. The whole village is happy about Give Directly. You have transfers to every house hold other than per compound. This was great since it avoided conflicts that could have arised among different house holds that live in the same compound. May you continue helping other needy people every where you go. I don't see any where that you should improve."

"I spent kes. 33000 in paying school fees for a whole year for my two sons who are currently in form one. I save kes. 20000 in my Mpesa account in waiting to settle their next term school fees. With the second transfer, I managed to buy two bulls for plowing my farm at kes. 30000. Before I started receiving these transfers, I used to till my farm with my hands and it was hard, time-consuming, and cumbersome. I do maize. Beans, peace, and vegetable farming. I also do casual work on a construction site. My husband is very old and can’t work. He always takes care of our cows by grazing them around our home. Thank you so much GiveDirectly, indeed you have changed my life and my family’s life for the best."

"I am happy because of receiving these transfers and I thank God for the same. Since I started receiving these transfers, my life changed for the best. The help you gave me was so great. I thank you so much for this I don’t take it for granted. Many people spent money on basic needs like food, shelter, and education but I spent it very differently and I believe it is going to make a difference in my life"

"I am a mother of 6. I am a farmer of maize, vegetables and cassava. My husband works in a workshop. 2 garls and 4boys. I spent my first transfer on buying a 5000ltrs water tank which costed kes. 35000, I bought 3 garters at kes. 4500, bend at kes. 400, dropper, bags of cement, and paid the plumber kers 5000 to fix it. In total buying and fixing this tank coated me kes. 50000. With the second transfer, I paid kes. 24000 school fees for my daughter who is college studying salon, bought 18 bags of cement at keas. 630 each to make floor, to do plastering and the remaining amount I spent on buying cook ware, plates, food and other house hold goods. I am a mother of six,two girls and four boys, a maize, vegetables and cassava farmer. My husband works in a workshop."

"I spend my recent transfer on buying zinc and other materials for my house."

""In my opinion GiveDirectly has been doing extremely well from the beginning of this program until now. Their love for humanity is very much commendable. The level of professionalism and transparency carried out by this Organization towards us the needy is so much remarkable. The joyed and excitement brought to us the needy will never go unnoticed. Therefore I have not seen anything that is not well done by GiveDirectly.""