"Receiving this money is a blessing for me and my family because i believe my life will now greatly improve. I will use the money to build a better house than the one am staying in now."

"The biggest hardship i have faced in my life is lack of food. This is a challenge because i rarely harvest enough maize as such i have to struggle to provide for my family"

"The biggest hardship i have faced in my life is lack of food. I always face hunger every year."

"I used to live in a very small house, I had plans to build myself a spacious house because of the size of my family that was growing but I had no money at hand, when I received my money I bought building material in order to enable me build a new house,"

"The biggest hardship i have faced in my life is lack of good shelter because the house we are staying in is in a very bad shape."

"The biggest difference is that I always had a dream of owning my barbershop and a salon but my dream was not realised because of the financial constraint, the good news is that all this is successful because of the transfer I received from GiveDirectly, I also managed to buy a dairy cow worth KES 15,000, I am hopeful that in future I will have sufficient milk supply, I am so grateful for the support."

"It was around 10 am when I was milking, I saw my neighbour jumping up and down, on asking I was told that they had already received their transfer, I rushed to the house to look for my phone, I was so happy when I saw a message alert that I had received my transfer, my son too was equally happy because he was sure that with the transfer he was certain that he will join his dream school to pursue his secondary education."

"In my opinion GiveDirectly does well by giving money to the poor in the community to build better houses. I do not find anything that GiveDirectly did not do well ."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that through the transfers, I was able to boost the two businesses that I have been running. This has been my main source of income and I was always worried because the business was almost collapsing since I was not making any profit. This is because there was no steady cash flow since most of the time I could utilize the capital and during those days I could get a profit of KES 300 which was not a guarantee. This was not enough to fend for my family's needs and I had to strain to make ends meet. However, after reviving it, I am glad to say the business is doing perfectly well and in a day I can make a profit of KES 1000. I am now in a position to take good care of my family without struggling like before."

"I am a peasant farmer, I also do casual work to fend for my family. The biggest challenge I have been facing is paying school fees for my children,I struggle alot .I have sold three of my cows to cater for their school fees. I intend to use this money to pay for college fee and high school fees. This will cost me approximately USD 700. The rest of the money I will use to purchase a dairy cow since I sold the ones I had ."