"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have been able to buy enough building materials to construct a new decent house. My previous house was in a bad state. It was full of cracks both sides, and whenever it rained, it would leak uncontrollable, forcing me to seek shelter from my neighbours at such time. I am now happy because through this transfer, I have been able to construct a new house for my family. Having a new house to makes it to be the biggest difference in my daily life because it would have taken a long time to achieve this."

"I received an Mpesa message on my phone early in the morning. On reading the contents, I realized that GiveDirectly had sent me the first transfer. I felt happy because my plan of renovating my house would be fulfilled."

"The transfer enabled me to buy livestock which include two heifers and a bull. I was keeping goats only with an aim of exchanging for a cow. However, the money has now helped to add these livestock to my cowshed. These are assets that that can be relied on in case of financial need. I will be able to educate my children through them. In addition, I will be selling milk thus earning an income to cater for my household needs. The bull will help me in ploughing, since I now have a complete pair of oxen. Owning the livestock is the biggest difference in my daily life."

"I saw an Mpesa notification in my phone early in the morning. I was curious to know who could have sent me the money. As I read the contents of the message, I came to understand that I had received my first transfer from GiveDirectly. I was greatly overjoyed and celebrated with my family for this financial help."

"I spent KES 31000 of my first transfer on buying two heifers. My aim is to keep them so that as they reproduce and increase in number, they will be helpful in sorting out my future financial needs. I can easily sell them and get some cash. In addition to the heifers, I spent the remaining amount on purchasing iron sheets to build a new house. My current house is not spacious enough to accommodate my children. I am still gathering enough materials to facilitate this. I am planning to start the construction soon once I have enough materials to build the new house."

"Receiving this money to me means that now I have a good and warm place sleep and a house that does not leak. As I speak I sleep on sack and use a work out blanket that does not even keep the cold away. In rainy season like these I sometimes have to leave my house in the middle of the night as my house leaks."

"This momey means to me that I have now something to be happy for. I am happy because I have no husband so it is up to me to feed my children which I usually worry about. With this money I will nolonger be worried but happy"

"The biggest hardship in my life is not been able to support my family financially, I have not been able to build a house for my children, I always struggle to pay their school fees and that has been my priority."

"The biggest hardship for the past years is hunger. We usually harvest a handful of our total cultivation because we lack farm inputs."

"This is something I have never seen in my life, I will use the money to buy food as it is always difficult for our family to find money"