"My life is different than how it would have been had I not received the transfer. This is because I have been able to achieve most of my goals something that would have taken me so many years before achieving it. I have been able to acquire an extra dairy cow and this will lead to increase in my income when it reproduces. Also, I have been able to build a house for my family and I am glad that my children and visitors now have a separate room to sleep."

"In my own opinion, GiveDirectly does well by uplifting people's lives through cash transfer and I do not see anything that they do not do well."

"When I received my transfer, I spent around KES 12,000 to finish building house for my family. I had already started building it using my first transfer but ran short of funds. Also, I spent KES 18500 to purchase some household items. I bought four sets of seats, a hoofer and a table. I still have KES 15000 that I have saved. I am planning to spend them in case of any emergency."

"On receiving the notification on my phone, I was really excited that I had to run to my neighbor's place to confirm whether she also received the same. It was unfortunate then that she had not received any message yet and even after restarting her phone, we found nothing in there. This forced me to check my account balance and it was true that I had received the first 55000KES. I thanked God for the timely arrival. Before informing any other person, we tried calling GiveDirectly's hotline number to say thank you and inquire whether my neighbor's transfer was yet to hit her account. We were advised to be patient and it never took even 10 mins before a message on her phone confirmed the receipt too."

"My life has changed in two dimensions. Firstly, My marriage is solid now, this money has strengthen the relation of me and my husband. Secondly, As a household now we can afford many things like Food, shelter and we have no worries. This was never the case before GD and we are very thankful."

"This transfer I have used it to build a house of which the bricks and other resources were gathered by the first transfer. The labor and cement will also be used by this amount of money"

"We spent the money to pay for hospital bills and also bought bags of maize"

"I felt very happy because I knew my life will completely change"

"What give directly do well is giving people money to help. People are living in poverty and money has put a smile on many lives in the village."

"Life has been different since I received the transfers from GiveDirectly. I have managed to buy iron sheets to put a roof on my house which was built in 2015. All these years, I have been depending on my vegetable selling business as my source of income and that was not enough to give me money enough to buy food for the family and to save some to buy iron sheets. GiveDirectly has differentiated my life as I am now finalising the project of roofing the house and soon I will have a decent house. I also managed to buy mattress and blankets for my 6 children and also bought some for myself and my husband. Had I not received the transfers, I would not have managed to buy all these things. I am very thankful for the financial support. May God bless you."