"It was around 1300Hrs and I heard a message come into my phone. I checked my phone and it was the Mpesa message. I was very very happy. I knew that I could finally build a house for my family."

"I spent my transfers to complete building a house that I had initially started building, but I could not complete building as I did not the finances to enable me complete. I also paid school fees for my younger siblings. I am the first born in my home and I was very happy that I was able to assist my parents."

"It was around 1300Hrs and I was at home just relaxing in the house. I heard a message come into my phone and when I checked, it was the Mpesa message. I was very very happy as I had been waiting for that money, so I could finally put it into use into projects that I had failed to implement due to financial strain."

"I spent my transfers to buy more stock for my business and I also bought two goats. My husband and I own a retail shop where we sell commodities like soap, sugar, flour; among other items. We have two children and we run this shop together. I was very happy that I could buy more stock for the business. I also bought two goats with the hope that I can make some money out of the goats in future."

"I spent my transfers to build a house for my family. I sell charcoal for a living together with my husband. We have four children and we have been living in a small house that does not have enough space. What we earn is quite little and it could not enable us to build a house. I am very grateful to GiveDirectly that I can now build a better and bigger house for my family."

"It was around 1300Hrs on that day that I received the transfers. I was at home and I heard a message come into my phone. When I checked and saw the Mpesa message, I was very very happy."

"There has been a very big difference in our lives ever since we received the transfer from GiveDirectly. My wife has been able to get the capital to start the business that she has always desired. I have also been able to buy the machine that I will use in spraying water on my crops during the dry season. I will hence no longer be experiencing wastage and difficulties with my crops during that dry season. The transfer has enabled us to buy two more digging hoes and a spraying pump for our animals. We will hence no longer have to move around borrowing from the neighbors the tools. Having rented the land and having bought the potato seeds, we will be able to plant them. We will sell the potatoes when they mature and hence get income. The maize that we bought, will enable us to have something to eat for a while as we wait for the maize that is on the farm to ripen. We will hence not have any worries about what we are to eat. My children are happy too because they got new clothes for themselves."

"We built a house with iron roof and paid school fees for my children . I also bought food and clothes for my children and my husband and few utensils."

"It was lunchtime and I was busy preparing lunch in the kitchen for my family when I heard an SMS notification on my phone. I decided to check it and to my surprise, it was an SMS saying that we had received the lump sum transfer of 55000/= from GiveDirectly. I was filled with so much happiness that I jumped up with joy on seeing it. My children were curious to know what was going on and I informed them that we had received the fortune from GiveDirectly as they had promised. The children were so happy to hear this and they started to request me to promise them to buy new clothes for them. Seeing the excitement on their faces, I agreed that I will grant them their request. I then came and informed my husband later when he arrived home of the good news that I had received. He was so happy to hear this and we thanked God together."

"This transfer from GiveDirectly has helped us a lot. We used part of it in completing the construction of the house that we have been living in it. We had built the house but we were not able to complete constructing it due to a lack of enough money. We hence decided to start living in it that way because the issue of paying rent had become hectic and costly for us. We have however been building the house slowly whenever we get a little money. What was however remaining in the construction was painting it and placing plywoods on the walls of the house. The transfer has also helped us to buy some food, we were able to buy two bags of maize, a bag of rice and some beans. We also bought some clothes for ourselves and our children."