"I had desired to build a decent house for my family so long but I had not been able to fulfill this due to lack of money. Currently, being able to build a spacious house makes my daily life different from how it was before. This is because I now live happily since we can now have our privacy at any time. Also, I no longer worry about the leaking roof which I had not been able to renovate it due to lack of money. Had it not have been for GiveDirectly, I would not have been able to achieve all his."

"There is a big difference in my daily life now compared to how it was before. First, my family now lives in a spacious house which guarantees us the privacy we need. Also, I no longer buy milk as I did before and this has enabled me to save the money I would otherwise use in buying milk. When it reproduces, I will be selling some milk and use the money I will be getting to pay my children's school fees."

"The moment I received the money I felt so happy. I remember it was very early in the morning when I heard a message notification from my phone. When I checked it it was a message from GiveDirectly confirming that I had just received a sum of 55000 KES. I felt so happy because never before had I received such an amount of money before. I informed my spouse and children and they were also happy about this. We made a budget with my spouse that morning on how to spend the money."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have built a better and spacious kitchen. I used to cook in a small grass-thatched house before which was leaking and during the rainy season, it was a big challenge when cooking. I depend on casual jobs in the village and the amount of money that I get is small and only enough to gather for the basic needs of the family. I did not have any extra source of income to build a good kitchen house. My children used to spend the nights at their grandmother's house. It was so risky for them because of the movements that they had to make at at night. I could not welcome visitors to my home because there was hardly any space to host them. Currently, I have built a better and spacious house for my family. My children have good place to sleep as well as do their assignments. I also have a place to cook food without any interruption like before. I can host visitors without any fear because I have a decent house. I am so much grateful for the support because it has changed my living standards by a great extent."

"I am very grateful for GD for financial support. I was not doing well financially and I would struggle to ensure we meet our daily needs. In most cases, I would go to work at construction sites just to ensure we had food and other basic needs in my house. Being a mother, it was a bit struggle to get something to do because most of the jobs there were always set aside for the men. I would have to depend on luck to get what to do. This is why when I received my transfers, I decided to start a business to be my source of income. I am glad I no longer depend on my fellow man to meet my needs. The little I get on a daily basis has helped me make a big step in my life. I know in the future, I will be where I want to be which is a wholesale business from the retail business I have now."

"My expectation in the near future is to go back and continue with my education. Once I am done with this, I hope to secure a good job and make my life better out of this. I can only do this by investing the little I have at the moment in order to afford my current needs and future goals. I am still thinking of the best business Idea that will enable me to prosper in life. Apart from that, I also wish to grow as a runner professionally. All this will depend on how things turn out with time."

"I will have bought a sewing machine and God willing I will also have rented a shop where I will be doing my tailoring work to earn a living. This has been my dream and at the look of things it is soon coming to pass."

"In the next six months, my life will have changed in that I will have opened a shop in our town. I will be running this shop so that I can avoid running into a loss because of the misappropriation of funds. Also, I expect that I will have expanded my poultry keeping project. I will be using the income from this project to cater for our daily needs."

"My expectation in the near future is that my life will be better. This is because, I believe my poultry project will have expanded hence more income to the family. I will also have purchased a dairy cow, which will cut down my expenses since I will no longer be purchasing milk for my family consumption. My life generally will improve because I will now have sufficient income and will no longer do casual jobs for pay. This means I will have more time to rest as well as spend with my family at home. I will also dedicate more time to improve my farming"

"The biggest hardship I face currently is lack of income generating activity. This is because I rely on subsistence farming which produces very little out put to sustain my depends. I can not therefore fulfill most of my plans like building a house for rental."