"My life is currently different from how it was in that, I no longer depend on garbage collection alone. The money brought a big change in changed my life because I decided to pay part of my transfer in a short training on repairing motorcycle. I get something by the end of the day as much as I am still training. I have reunited with my wife because I have proved that I can pay rent with the little money that I get from the garage supplementing with the garbage collection one. I have a cart that I bought with the transfer, I do not hire hence have reduced this cost. I can only thank GiveDirectly for financial support."

"I really felt happy the moment I received my money. I was so deligthed that I had got money to support myself given my old age."

"The moment I received the money I felt so happy because I have never received such an amount of money before. It was early in the morning when my neighbors informed me that she has received money from GiveDireectly. I immediately checked my phone and truly I got the message confirming that I have received a sum of 55000KES. I felt so happy because I knew I would be in a position to buy a dairy cow and cut the daily expenses of buying milk."

"I really felt so happy the moment I received my money. This is because I knew that I would off set the plot of land debt."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is the feeling of relief having paid up the loan I had got to buy my motorcycle. This loan was giving me sleepless nights as raising the money was becoming a problem although I was doing my best to off set it. It even made providing for my family to be challenging as I had to first look at clearing the loan then cater for my family."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I can now afford food for my family without much hustle. Before getting this money, I had a business of buying and selling fresh cassava and potatoes to support my family since I had left my mechanical work to safeguard mylife (there was a convy trying to kill me given my super experience at work and lots of customers). "

"The moment I received my money, I felt happy that I had got money to support my family needs. "

"Being able to buy a sewing machine for my husband is the biggest difference in my daily life. This is because he now does his own business and does not need to depend on other people to determine his income. He is now a happy man. Prior to getting this money, my husband had to go work for some other people that later stressed him and he would come home stressed. From the time he got his own machine, I have not seen him stressed."

"For a long time I have been struggling to pay my house rent because my income has always been meager hence with the varies family's needs I have always felt overwhelmed. Over the years ,I have been thing on the possible ways to relieved some of these burdens . Therefore, with the financial assistance from GiveDirectly I have come up with a new goal basically is to save and buy a piece of land and build my family home that would enable me evade the stress that come up with paying rent. At the moment I have already started acting on it by adopting the skill of saving on a monthly basis."

"My new goal is to start a shoe business. Currently, I only depend on a small income from my fish mongering business which is not much. I would want to have an improved income from the profits hence I want to venture into another business to help me expand my income."