"I believe my life will have improved in the next six months because my poultry farm will have grown and paid well. I will be adding my profits from the poultry business with the sales from milk in order to pay school fees for my daughter. I am glad I no longer have to do casual jobs in order to meet some of these goals."

"My expectation in the near future is to have a successful business in the near future. This will help us as a family to have additional sources of income to help us meet all our needs and pay our children's school fees. We currently depend on my spouse for all these needs and sometimes it takes a toll on him. I want to be a position in a position to help whenever I can."

"Currently, I do not have a house instead I usually sleep in my neighbor's house. I'm planning to save the coming transfers and use them to construct a house. Therefore, in the next six months, I'm hopeful that I'll have constructed a house."

"Adding one dairy cow to the one i have in order to boost my daily income is what this money means to me. I currently depend on selling 3 litres of milk produced by my cow at ksh 30 daily so as to buy food for my four grand children who are orphans. I will use my second transfer to buy a 3000 litre water tank for storing water during rainy seasons thus minimising diseases and infections resulting from drinking dirty water that i usually fetch from open water pans"

"With the current plans to establish a dairy farming unit, I expect to see it's completion in the next six months. We have been participating in the Merry-go-round which we started with other GiveDirectly beneficiaries and in the next few months my turn to receive the contribution will come. This money which will be coming as a lump sum will be directed to sourcing the construction materials for the dairy shed and will also be useful in paying the man power involved in the construction."

"I used to do any available casual job in the village including construction work that was straining just to see my children get their daily basic needs hence saving to obtain household furniture was not a priority then due to inadequate finances. Those were the most stressful days and I didn't afford a source of entertainment to loosen my mind which was making me slowly sinking into depression due to lots of unresolved problems. I bought a television set to be watching with the rest of my family members. Today ,my children are happy because of the entertainment which they lacked and the shame of having to go to the neighbors just to watch is now a thing of the past."

"I was harvesting sand for the last three years and I didn't like this job because the probability of drowning when the river bank breaks on rainy season was high . During this period, I decided to save money with an intention of owning a motorcycle ( boda boda) since it is a marketable business in my society.Give Directly's transfers came at an opportune time. I topped up my savings with the entire transfers and purchased a brand new motorbike. Today, my proceedings from this business has immensely raise my living standard and boost my asset ownership because I make 500 KES in a daily basis which caters for all this with ease. This is a huge difference Give Directly has made in my life."

"I felt so happy when I received my first transfer. I remember it was early in the morning when I heard my neighbors celebrating. I asked one of them and he said that GiveDirectly has sent the money. I immediately checked my phone and to my surprise, I had also received 55000 KES from GiveDirectly. My spouse and children were so happy. We immediately budgeted for the money and the first idea that came into our minds was to buy a dairy cow."

"It is my responsibility to meet my family's basic needs thus I work hard to earn something to cater for these. I always feel good when I see a happy and healthy family but unhappy and stressed when my family misses the basic necessities. I take my children's education seriously since this is the key to their brighter future. I have two daughters in high school and raising their fee with the limited resources in our family had been so challenging. Through GiveDirectly money, my children are comfortable in school studying without interruptions since I have cleared their school fees. I am at peace now because this has given me an opportunity to prepare for the next term payment. We mainly depend on casual jobs to which has minimal income thus receiving this transfer has enabled us to save more for our children's education. I am so happy my children have humble time study unlike before. To me, this so far is the biggest difference in my daily life."

"This past farming season, I was able to get a better harvest which I did not have to sell to raise the money to pay for the inputs that I received from One Acre Fund on credit as I used to do before because the transfers took care of that. With another season underway, I hope to get even more produce which I can later sell to raise money for other needs."