"In the next six months, I expect to have a better house. Once I build mine, I will no longer sleep in my brother's house. Having a house will be a great transformation in my life simply because I now have my own house. The fear of being kicked out once my brother marries is no longer a problem for me anymore. I also feel good I won't be asking for shelter from my neighbors since to me it is ashaming. In addition, I would also be having my barbershop, this is an additional source of income. The little I get from my business will help me in boosting my plastic household business. Having an additional source of income will enable me to be financially stable and supporting my younger siblings won't be a problem anymore."

"Right now, I feel my life has received new hope. I am no longer hopeless as I used to be before the transfers. This is because I never saw anything good come out of my life and I only saw trouble and struggles. I did not have a good income yet I had so many needs to cater for. I could not see a way out and I felt as if it was too much for me. Receiving these transfers changed my opinion and it changed my reasoning. Now I know if I work hard, I can change my life and solve all the struggles I have gone through."

"My life is different in that I have finally achieved my goal of having a sugarcane plantation. In my area, I have seen a lot of lives changed financially because of sugarcane they planted. I have over the last two years developed an interest in planting sugarcane. As a result of low income and limited piece of land, I have never managed to have my own sugarcane plantation. With GD transfers, I managed to lease in a piece of land which I have planted sugarcane. By the time I make the third harvest, I know my life will not be the same again. I will have grown financially and use the profits to start up a business for my family so that we should not go back to the struggles we had before."

"Now that I will not be paying rent for my grocery shop after constructing my own, I expect to be making a lot more savings than I used to do before. In the next six months, I hope that I will have set up a new business that will provide an extra income for my family which only means a better life."

"Now that I have maize from the harvests made last season, I am able to save some of the transfers which I will then use to buy the sheep that have been my dream for some time now. I hope to have a long term investment of the transfers that will grow into something bigger after the project and having the sheep will be the way to do so."

"I was woken up by a message alert. When I checked the sender, I was filled with joy as I smiled all along and kept on reading the message again and again. To me, it was a relief to the challenges that I have faced over the years. I was thankful to GiveDirectly for their financial support."

"Receiving this transfer has brought great relief to me. I had one, my son's who was in high school and had been sent home for fees. I struggled a lot to raise the full fees for him to comfortably continue and be allowed back to school. When I received this transfer, I cleared his school fees and am happy that being his final year, he will stay in school until his final exam. I am at peace now because he has a zero school fee balance."

"I saw Mpesa message early in the morning and for sure it was a surprise to me because it had been long since I received money in my account. I thought it was my husband who had sent the money but when I went through it, I realized it was from GiveDirectly. I felt happy as I read the message again to my children and for sure, it was a blessing to me. I thanked GiveDirectly for their financial support."

"I was woken up by a message notification early in the morning. Upon checking its content, my heart was filled with happiness when I realized that GiveDirectly had sent me the promised money. I knew that the transfer would totally change my life."

"It was my helper who showed me the message and read to me the contents. I was filled with happiness when I realized the money was from GiveDirectly, I was thankful to GiveDirectly."