"My life has greatly changed since I received my first transfer. It is always my happiness to see my family happy and healthy thus I always struggle to put a meal on the table and bring in more assets that we can lean on as a family during hard times. When I received my first transfer from GiveDirectly, I spent it on my family wellness. I bought a cow that I look at it as an added asset and I believe that it will be calving soon thus giving us milk for both household consumption and sales. I am happy that this has given me a peaceful mind in that it has reduced my thinking of what to lean on in case of a financial crisis. Also, I spent some money on my son's school fees. I am at peace now since he had a humble time for his studies and sat for his exam peacefully. I am happy that GiveDirectly has improved our family."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have expanded my small business of selling milk at home. I wish to buy more milk from Dairy farmers and add value so that I sell at a higher price. The amount of money that I will get will be for the school fees for my daughter who will join form one next year."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have expanded the farming and be able in a position to produce enough for the family and sell the surplus to build a better house. We live in a small house and it cannot host all of us comfortably. I will also have to learn many this to perfect my skills in horticulture."

"The moment when I received my money I felt so happy because I have never receive such amount of money before. I remember it was very early the morning when I heard a message from my phone. When I read the message confirming that I have received a sum of Ksh 55000 I felt so happy because I knew I will be in a position to build a better house for my family."

"The moment when I received my money I felt so happy. I remember it was very early in the morning when I heard a message from my phone. When I checked it it was a message confirming that I have received a sum of 550002 KES. I knew from that point that I will be in a position to buy a dairy cow to cut the daily cost of buying milk."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have bought a dairy cow. I used to buy milk from my neighbors and it was so costly for me. I depend on casual jobs in the village to earn an income. The amount of money that I could get through that is so small and could only gather for the basic needs of the family. I did not have extra money to save to enable me to buy a cow. When I received the money the first thing that I did was to buy a dairy cow. Currently, I no longer buy milk but rather sell the surplus milk at the market to earn an income to meet other additional needs for my family. I also no longer do much of the casual jobs in the village. I have devoted much of my time on my own farm. I am so happy because GiveDirectly has changed our standard of living."

"The biggest difference in my daily life ever since I received my first transfers from Give Directly is that I now have an ox. Previously, I used to hire from friends whenever I wanted to prepare my farm. This was costly for me and sometimes I could fail to prepare and plant on time which led to poor yields. Though the ox cannot plough on its own, I will be borrowing the other one from my neighbor who also has one. I am now a happy farmer because I can plough my farm in a good time unlike before. This has really helped me from the expenses of hiring labor. Whenever I did not have enough money for labor, I was forced to dig my own farm alone and this meant that I would only dig and plant a small section of my farm and leave the rest to idle. I am hopeful that I would have a good harvest over the coming season now that I was able to utilize my whole farm."

"The moment when I received my money I felt so happy I remember it was very in the morning when I heard a message from my phone. When I checked it I felt so happy because I have never received such an amount of money before. I knew I would be in a position to buy a dairy cow and cut the daily cost of buying milk."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have built a better and spacious house for my family. We used to live in a small mud house with my children which could not host all of us comfortably. My children could go to sleep in the neighbor's house. This was so risky because of the movement during the night. During the rainy, it was so difficult because the house which they used to sleep was quite far from home. I depend on casual jobs in the village to earn an income. The amount of money that I get through this was so small and could only gather for the basic needs. I did not have an extra amount to save to enable me to build a house. Currently, I have built a better house and we live comfortably with my family without any stress like before., We are so grateful to GiveDirectly because it has changed our standard of living."

"I saw the transfer notification early in the morning, on checking to confirm, the message was from GiveDirectly informing me that I had received my first transfer. I felt happy as I began to plan on how I would use this money to impact my life."