"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now own a dairy cow. It had always been my wish to own one but I had not been able to due to overwhelming family needs. This cow is my long term investment. When it reproduces, I will be selling milk to earn an income to use in paying school fees for my children. Also, it will help me reduce my daily expenditure hence I can be able to save some money."

"It was around 6bam when I was preparing my children for school. I heard my phone ringing so loudly. I decided to check what the notification was all about, only to realize it was an Mpesa message fro GD I was very happy. I started planning on how I would utilize the money."

"At the moment I do not see myself with any new goal but first I have to ensure that my life is in order by having a better living place and the most basic household requirements. This is because after leaving the lifestyle of drug addition I got a decent job at a carwash in Mathare though its wages are not sustain. I am still figuring out how to stabilize my life using GiveDirectly's monthly transfers ."

"It was around 3 Am, I had just woken up to breastfeed my baby. That is when I got a message notification on my phone. I a bit nervous and wondered who would send me a message at that time of night. I checked, only to realize that it was from GD notifying me that my M-pesa account had been credited with the amount they had promised. I was very happy. I knew that my dream of having another ox shall come true."

"My life is better now, I feel good because I sleep in an iron roofed house that I constructed with the GiveDirectly transfers. I am no longer worried of rain like before when I was sleeping in a hut with a leaky roof. My mind is at peace and I am happy."

"My life is better now because I have constructed an iron roofed house, paid a debt that enabled me get back the land which was given out as security. Previously, we were sleeping in small huts that could leak. We were always on pressure to renovate the roofs of these huts every year yet grass was scarse."

"I expect to have a stable business in the next six months. Having a business will enable me to have an additional source of income. The little money I get from my shop business I will use to expand it and part of it I'll use on plastering my house. I want to thank Give Directly for this kind of economic empowerment. I expect to live a better life, for example, I want to make sure that I plaster my house and paint it so that one day I will give testimony to my grandchildren, that it is because of Gively Directly that I owned such a house."

"I am a goal-orientated person and I have a belief I will achieve my dream of having dairy farming in my home. I expect to have a better life than the one I have now by having an additional source of income. I have a lot of difficulty in both paying school fees for my school-going children and providing other basic needs. It is very hectic simple because I have to provide everything alone though my daily income is too little to sustain their needs. At times I am forced to borrow in which some people after helping you they start talking bad about you. In the next six months, I expect to have a better life, whereby I can financially support my family without straining too much."

"I believe that for one to be successful in life, he/she must have gone through school. Due to this, my children's education has always been my priority and I always do anything possible to make sure that I pay their school fees on time. I received my first transfer at a time when they had been sent back home to collect the arrears I was still owing the school. Being able to clear these arrears using my transfers is the biggest difference in my daily life because they were able to sit for their end year examinations and they will be moving to their next grade next year."

"My expectation in the next six months is that my life will have changed. I believe I will have purchased a dairy cow which has always been my dream. I also hope that by them, I will be more independent such that I will no longer rely on my parents in most of my needs"