"In the coming six months hopefully, I will have finished the construction of my new house and I will have started making bricks for sale. This will help generate an income for me even after the transfers have stopped."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have built a new house. This will allow me to now focus on other development projects. I plan to divert my resource starting a business to improve my income hence gain stability to raise a good family and face any financial needs arising in my family."

"In the next six months, I expect to have built my own house thus will enjoying my comfort under my own roof. I expect to have improved my mobile saloon business buy selling wives to my clients to increase my income that will help me meet my daily basic needs and other necessities."

"Even though the capital for starting cereal business is intensive, God willing come next six months, I will have raised some amount to enable me start the cereal business on a small scale as I track its growth."

"I will have bought a water pump and my farming will have been improved in that even during the drought season I will be able to proceed on with my farming with no worries of lack of water given that I will be able to pump water into my farm. This will translate to consistency in production hence flow of income from the sale of the vegetables. Apart from that, I will have satisfied customers and this will increase my referrals."

"I was woken up by a message alert early in the morning. I curiously went for my phone to check who could have sent a message at that hour. I was greatly overjoyed on realizing that the message was from GiveDirectly that I had received my first transfer."

"I remember very well it was around 4 am when I heard my phone vibrating so loudly. I was anxious and wanted to know what the notification was all about because it was so unusual for my phone to vibrate at such an hour. When I checked it's content it was an mpesa message from GiveDirectly. I was so happy beyond measures."

"Owning the pair of oxen to me is the biggest difference in my daily life. This is because I have been using my own hands to till my land for a long period of time. This was tiring and I was not getting some good harvests at all. I am now a happy farmer because I will be getting some good harvests since the pair can plough many acres at a short period of time. To add to that I will also be hiring them to my neighbors at a fee. This will be my source of income which will also boost my standard of living. "

"I was woken up by a message notification early in the morning that day, when I checked its contents, it was informing me that I had finally received the money I had been anxiously waiting for from GiveDirectly. I could not contain the joy that filled my heart. I was thankful to GiveDirectly for the financial support as we celebrated with my children for the money we received as we looked forward to accomplishing what we had planned."

"My life has greatly changed ever since I received this support from GiveDirectly. Initially, I was struggling to fulfil the household basic needs such as foodstuffs and clothing for my family, because the little wages I earned from my casual job could not fully cater for the vast household needs. I have enjoyed a peaceful time after getting this financial support. I bought adequate foodstuffs enough to feed my family daily and clothing for the whole family. In addition, I replaced my old bedding with a new wooden bed and a mattress to sleep on comfortably. I now enjoy my sleep and also get enough rest."