"My life is currently different in that I now have my own cart business that has changed my life a great deal. I make more income from my cart business and I am raising a happier family than the one that I raised before I received GiveDirectly funds. I can now pay school fees easily from the income I make. I also bought a cow that has given us enough milk for local consumption while we also sell the surplus to meet other family needs."

"I used to sell charcoal to earn my daily revenue. This was never a guarantee hence on some days I was forced to go without food with my entire family. Since the first transfer was used entirely in house construction, I decided to invest the second one to enhance sustainability even after receiving all the transfers. I bought a motorcycle which my husband uses for the taxi business. This has helped us earn revenue daily. The remaining amount I paid school fees for my children."

"If I could not have received the money from Give directly I could not have managed to put up a nice spacious house and I am sure I could still be staying in a squeezed house that I was staying before. I am glad I am now staying in a house where I am able to buy households and stay comfortably like other people. Besides that I can also pay school fees for my children and they are now attending school consistently with minimal interactions."

"My life is very different as compared to how it was before I started receiving the transfers. I was a casual laborer, I used to sell charcoal to earn a living. This was not sustainable but I had no option. Upon receiving the transfers, I decided to venture into farming. I bought goats for rearing and prepared my farm for planting season. I am way better than I was before the transfers."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is the livestock that I bought with the transfer. My account has never read such a large sum of money at once. I would not have gotten money to buy cows were it not for GiveDirectly. The cows will mature quickly. On selling them, I just may be able to buy more land to expand my farm."

"The morning I received transfer was a life-changing moment. I was elated that I would finally manage to build a house to improve."

"My husband has been our bread winner and he operates motorcycle taxi businesses to see us through. Since we was employed by a neighbor, he had to undergo a lot of pressure of waking up early, coming home late to meet his employer's standard. This was tiring and demoralizing for him with the little commission he could come home. When I received my second transfer, I used it to buy a motorcycle which is currently used by husband for taxi businesses. This is the biggest difference in my daily life since we currently enjoys full daily income from that helped us meet our family needs and save some for future investment."

"Even though I currently on livestock worth more than KES50000, my 1500 litres water tank gives me the biggest difference in my daily life. When I look back and how stress get access to clean water had been in my family, I am just left thank GiveDirectly for the support to acquire this tank. We receive low rainfalls in our areas and most of the time we are forced to go far fetch water. I used to spent a lot at same time waste a lot of time and energy going for small capacity of water. I thank GiveDirectly this has greatly reduced. I currently enjoy safe clean water at my doorsteps."

"I believe education is the key to make my children's life better thus I have to persist overwhelming needs to make sure that I pay their fee. I majorly depend on casual jobs and subsistence farming to raising an income to support ever-rising pressing family needs. I had seen myself lucky to have my children in school and colleges but raising their fees had been a big struggle for me with the limited resources I have. When I received GiveDirectly transfers, I was able to pay my children school fees. Currently, I am happy and hopeful since GiveDirectly has given me a handy hand to realize my goal."

"My children education and daily household needs had been my priorities among my family needs thus I was just forced to live in my mud-wall grass thatched house and frequently smear it to reduce the dust and prevent cracks that had ocuured every due to the old age of my house. Building another was dresm that I couldn't realize due to limited resources. The biggest difference in my daily life is being able to renovate my house. I currently live under decent iron roofed house courtesy of GiveDirectly. I feel relaxed and so happy with such a decent house that I couldn't have done it on my own."