"The recipient now has shelter and for that she's greatful"

"I bought 6 bags of cement, door frames and 4bags of maize."

"Now the whole family is sleeping on matress, we can eat 3 times a day, my children have clothes and sleeping under a house with iron sheets is a good feeling during rainy seasons. My family is now happy which was not the situation before GD and we are very thankful."

"It was around 7 in the morning when I had just woken up and I was heading to the farm when I heard a message tone from my mobile phone. On checking the content I was shocked and happy at the same after realizing that it was an Mpesa message from GiveDirectly. I even returned back home and started celebrating with my family.9m"

"Receiving this money means I will invest in a kiosk business.I had a business some years ago which I stopped operating because I did not have money to support it. But if I get money from givedirectly I put some capital to start up again to get some income."

"I means I will get a cow at 40,000 shillings, this cow will provide a source of income for my family.my dream is to have dairy cows for milk to sell and with Givedirectly I Know I will get capital to start.With the one cow I will buy I believe it will produce 9 ltr per day and sell at sh30 per ltr making a good venture."

"The biggest hardship I faced in my life has been to sustain the needs of my children while I am single with no job or regular income."

"I have always yearned to be independent by buying a small piece of land to relocate in with my three children, since we currently live in my parents compound, but financial constraints has made this impossible. My first born son is in his third year in high school and my small business of trading milk and mandazis only caters for food and school fees. I am so grateful to Give Directly, being enrolled to this program is a dream come true to me."

"for the whole of my life i have never had such a huge amount of money, when i received the money i was very happy"

"in my entire life i have never owned a house, i used to stay in a rented house with my family. i could do piece work in peoples farms in order to find money to pay house rent and buy food. my dream was to build my own house and right now am building my own house and i have bought enough food for my family. i have stopped doing piece works in peoples farms and am able to concentrate on my farm."