"The moment I received the money, happiness filled my heart. I felt like I needed time to settle my heart down before I can withdraw the transfer for spending."

"The moment I received my money, I really felt so happy that I had to let my wife know about the good news. We would now jointly plan for our money."

"In the next six months, I have great expectations that I would have bought and planted the seedlings and all I will be doing is weeding spraying and other farm management to ensure a great harvest later."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is being able to benefit from this money that has enabled me to take my fresh cassava business to a new level. I now buy already mature cassava from the gardens and supply. This has more than doubled my income in form of profits. Hence being able to meet most of my family and personal needs. Prior to getting this transfer I just used to buy a suck and go sell it off to those making cassava chips, or foods. this gave me little or no profits at times."

"In the next months, I believe that I would have bought a dairy cow and buying milk will be something to forget about. I will start saving what I would have spent on buying milk and spend on buying other household necessities."

"I felt too much happiness in my heart when I received the money because GiveDirectly came to help me come out of poverty. I bought food that we ate that day as we celebrated."

"Being a casual laborer coupled with the high cost of living in the capital city of Nairobi where my husband resides, his income which we entirely depend on is too little to meet all our needs such as food. This has crippled our efforts of owning a bigger house and starting a business that can help us supplement our income."

"My plans for the next transfers is to ensure I pay my house rent and budgeting for the house in time. I want to focus my transfer on maintaining my house by paying my rent in time and ensuring I have enough to eat in the house on a daily basis."

"Ever since I started receiving these transfers from GD, I have been feeling motivated in achieving my goals. Before the transfers, I did not have any good income and I felt life was very unfair for me. I used to struggle to an extent I lost hope in achieving my dreams. I just decided to live for the moment until I started receiving these transfers. I feel motivated to work very hard because I know the dreams of having a permanent house, being financially stable is still achievable."

"Base on the current progress in my plan to establish poultry farming, I have great expectations that in the next six months, it will be fully established and running."