"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have been able to clear school fees for my daughter who is in secondary school. School fees arrears had piled up into huge amounts that I never thought she could be allowed to proceed into her fourth form. She has since joined her fourth form and will sit for her final examinations at the end of this year. I am optimistic that she will pass and bring change to our family. I honestly feel so happy and indebted to GiveDirectly for the timely support that they gave us."

"In the next six months, I am hopeful that I will have a peaceful and easy life now that the burden of paying school fees has been lifted off my shoulder and household upkeep is no longer a struggle to raise."

"My main source of income before I started receiving these transfers was casual domestic jobs that were mostly unavailable. I never thought that I could do anything beyond than that due to a lack of empowerment. When I started receiving the transfers, I became very open-minded and had the need to grow and become self-employed because, from that, I would always have something to take home. As at now, I have even greater dreams which I whole-heartedly awe to Give Directly for empowering me."

"GiveDirectly came into our village and our lives just at the right time. This was the moment we really needed money in our family to sort other several important bills which were pending. To imagine if we had not received is really a devastating thought to us, our lives would have been hard since school fees payment to start with would have been the hardest of all. We used to fully depend on loans which still was too hard for us to service it and would always lead to our assets being auctioned. Thanks to GiveDirectly for coming in handy when we needed most."

"If I could not have received the money I could not I have managed to buy cows and I am very sure I could still be staying in poverty. "

"My life has really changed because I no longer spent money to buy parrafin to lighting my house as l used to do before, since it was very expensive and yet i did not have stable source of income. I am also charging my phone with ease I do not need to go to the shopping centre to charge it."

"I expect to have increased my egg production from about 30 eggs to about 50 eggs per day. This will be sold to a certain trader that buys the eggs at a really good price of kES 20 per egg. This will get me about KES 1000 per day. With this, I will sort out my daily expenditure on food items and other family's personal needs."

"My life has taken a big stepping stone through the transfers I had received from GiveDirectly . Today , My family and I enjoy the luxury of staying in a spacious house because my children are able to play and run around the house. At the same time, we do have family dinners together which I feel has bonded us more compared to before where the house we used to stay in was small and squeezed. What pleases me more is that my living standard has improved more than my neighbors who are youths like me who refused to participate in the project"

"Before, I would worry much about the possible ways to purchase household items and provide for my family's needs. This is because the money I made from doing manual jobs like cultivating my neighbor's farms could barely sustain my family's basic needs such as food and clothes. GiveDirectly's transfer came in handy since I have been able to buy household items and now I am glad that I leave at the comfort of my home. The money that I make nowadays goes towards the provision of my family's daily needs without worrying about saving them purposely to invest in household items like before."

"Two years after my spouse passed away, the house he left me collapsed since it was in a deplorable condition. I was left homeless and out of the villager's empathy, they did a fundraiser and built a small house. I appreciate how my life has changed with GiveDirectly's transfer . This because I have been able to build a new house which is spacious enough to host my visitors comfortably and I am no longer worried of it leaking when it rains like my previous house. I am happy that even at my old age, I can get an income from the commercial poultry rear project that I started using the transfer, therefore, the profits assist me in catering for my own household expenditure without full reliance on my villager and relatives."