"I felt happy and relieved when I received the message because it brought change in my life."

"My source of livelihood 5 years ago was a shop business that I used to run in my village. This business was doing well and I could earn up to 8 thousand shillings a month besides my daily expenses. Sometimes I could take loans from our village Sacco and I was able to pay them comfortably. However, life has its own way of taking turns and I lost this business after my shop was damaged by heavy rains. I couldn't revive it since I had used all my savings to build a house. This situation reduced me to a casual labourer and my ambition since then has been to reopen this business. I will therefore use this transfer for this purpose and this enable me to provide for my family without much hustle."

"The phone was with the trustee when the money was sent. When he conveyed the news to me, I felt very happy even though I was bedridden."

"I received the money while at home feeling exhausted."

"The moment I recieved my money, I became very happy because I had got money to better my life."

"The difference in my life is that I have bought the necessary building materials and the construction of my house is going. Initially, I only used to depend on casual jobs. The money I got from these jobs was enough to buy basic needs. I used to save nothing towards this goal therefore there were slim chances of establishing my home. I am happy that soon as a family we will be having a more spacious house."

"I used KES 35000 to buy a dairy cow and used the remaining amount to buy goats. The money came at a time that I was really thinking about the welfare of my family and what I could do to improve it. I did not have any asset that would help me and my family even at the times of financial difficulties. I had had the desire to won at least one but the casual work that I engaged in could only give me enough to feed my family and was sometimes hardly enough to even serve that purpose. On receiving money from GiveDirectly, I bought the livestock since they are a financial security for my future and that of my family."

"In the next six months, my expectations is that I shall have bought a piece of land already after acquiring a loan from one of the local banks. The piece of land, I know, shall give me an opportunity to invest in other meaningful things like farming that will change my life and living standards of my family by a great extent."

"The biggest difference in my life is that, I now sleep very well since I acquire better beddings for myself and the children. Previously, we slept on torn mattresses which could get disorganized immediately one changed the sleeping position. In addition, I have also already secured building materials for building my permanent house. I have not yet started with construction because I delayed to make the bricks due to unavoidable circumstances."

"In the next six months, I will have collected enough money to pay school fees for my sibling who is in class eight this year and will be joining high school come next year. I know it is usually very costly to enroll in high school so I decided to start saving early to ensure a smooth enrolment process is achieved."