""Before I could start receiving transfers from GiveDirectly, I made a promise to my in laws to help improve their house because of their kind gestures towards me. But things didn't go as planned. And this brought serious worried and embarrassment to me. Now that I have started receiving transfers from GiveDirectly, my first and foremost priority is to used most of my transfers to improve the house to a better status as promised. This will bring me great Joy knowing that I didn't failed on my promised.""

"I am hoping of living a happy life with my children, in two to three years time, I am hoping for my children to be out of school and working to support me. And also I am hoping to be in my newly building house."

"In my opinion givedirectly did very well in my life and that of my village givedirectly give me money to improved myself. Givedirectly has changed my entire life. Givedirectly was able to enrolled almost the entire village that I am proud of today. Givedirectly has done everything well."

"As a father, few things give me more pride than being able to educate my children and give them the best chance at a better future than mine. My biggest accomplishment in future is to be able to educate my kids from beginning to end. In the near term, I am striving to ensure that I restart my business , and be able to buy a few cattle to then go on to sell at market."

"Plans to renovate my house and sent some to my son who's in the medical college in Monrovia."

"As a charcoal business owner, my income is sought slowly and steadily. Needless to say, the funds from GiveDirectly were a welcome boost in mine and my family's quality of living. I usually ferry charcoal to Mombasa Market via my motor bike, to the business that my wife oversees while I handle other matters. The funds allowed us to buy a plot of 50 by 100 meters on which we built a restaurant, 2 cows and 1 goat, took my motor bike to the mechanics' bought food, furniture and mattresses, all of which were things we would have struggled to achieve in as short as span as we did. Part of the funds also went to my kids education fees. My eldest is in Grade 3 at and my second born in PP2, both at Darajani Primary School, where I pay KES. 350 and KES. 270 respectively per term. In addition to this, I cleared a school arrears debt I had of KES. 2,500. As for my youngest 2 year old, she benefited from the groceries we got, of which her food was made with. GiveDirectly truly changed our lives and we are eternally great full."

""When I withdraw my most recent transfer, I plan to buy materials to build a house and a shop"."

""When I withdraw my recent transfer, I intend to use a portion of it to renovate my house and use the balance amount to start building a house for my children in zwedru"."

"In my opinion, what GiveDirectly does well in this program is that we receive the transfers in lumpsum amounts. This helps in planning as one is in a position to do something huge as compared to when the transfers are given in small instalments. Another thing that GiveDirectly does well is that the unlearned recipients are taught how to use mpesa. This has reduced the number of theft cases in the community as most of us managed to change our pins to a more secure code. What needs to be done differently is enrolling all the individuals in the household to avoid household conflict. During enrollment, those individuals who did not have responsibilities by then were left out of the program yet these are the same people who steal from their old and vulnerable parents. Another thing that needs to be done differently is enrolling all the communities in a specific village for uniformity purposes and this will prevent too many complaints coming from the communities that are left out during the registration to the programs."

"I am a student in my third year pursuing bachelors in education. I used part of the transfers of kshs 20,000 to pay for my tuition fees. Before the transfers, I used to sell out some of my livestock like chicken and goats to pay school fees, it was never enough and mostly my relatives could chip in. I also bought two cows for kshs 30,000 for the purposes of paying dowry. Once I will be done with my studies I will be marrying and by then my cows would have multiplied in number since both of them are female."