"Currently, I do not have any new additional goal. Ever since I began receiving the money, I resolved to save it to enable me to start a business, which I have managed to open. My goal now is to commit myself to this business to see it expanding in the near future and expand have more income to sustain the daily family needs and make other family investments."

"My life is now different because the transfer has enabled me to accomplish many things. First, I rear goats in my homestead with a modern shed that allows me to effectively take care of them. When I received the transfer, I purchased materials that allowed me to construct a good modern shed for them. Secondly, the transfer has enabled me to clear school fee arrears for my child in the university, for him to continue comfortably with his studies. Lastly, I also managed to renovate my toilet which was mudded by plastering it with cement."

"My life will have changed by then because I will have a new house by then which is much spacious and bigger than what we currently have. Currently, we are forced to squeeze into this small structure which can barely accommodate the size of my family"

"I had longed to renovate my own house through the purchase of blocks, cement, and sand to be a permanent one. I could not have fulfilled this as I was not able to meet the full cost of rebuilding it. I thank GiveDirectly for helping me to achieve this. I also managed to acquire these three goats as my assets which upon reproducing, I will be having something to depend on in case of any financial challenge."

"I received the transfer at around 4 o'clock in the morning. On checking the message, it was the promised money from GiveDirectly. At that moment, I became so happy and thankful to them for financial support."

"I started a small shop in my village through the money I received from GiveDirectly. I had desired to engage myself in business only that I was limited because of a lack of capital. When I received the money from GiveDirectly, I bought enough stock of different kinds of products to operate this shop. Investing KES 40000 in the starting of this business has been the biggest difference in my daily life because I now earn KES 2000 in a day. This is a big improvement because we had no source of income previously as we mainly depended on the casual jobs that my husband does to earn a living. Our income has greatly improved and at least we can meet our daily basic needs effectively."

"My life is different than it would have been if I never received the transfer in that, I have managed to build a more spacious and permanent house than the one had previously before the transfers. This has seen my household members enjoy the space and privacy they did not have before. Besides if it were not the transfers, It would have taken a little bit longer to accomplish the dream of building a bigger house."

"My life is different than it would have been if I never received the transfer in that, I have been able to improve my livelihood and paid my children school fees. I would not have managed to get money to buy a new set of utensils, neither would it have been easy to pay my children school fees. All this was made possible thanks to GD's support which has really transformed my life."

"My life is different from how it would have been in that, I have managed to purchase household items: chairs, tables, and other utensils. Something that would have taken me ages to do. Now my house looks presentable and more habitable than before. I can serve my guests using presentable utensils."

"In the next six months, I am expecting to have started a small business where I will be buying and selling tea leaves. It's been my hope that I would one day start this business since my tea leaves have not matured enough to be picked. This business will enable me to obtain registration with the cooperative society which I will still be using in selling my own produce from the farm. With the monthly transfers I have been receiving, I will be using part of it to run this small business and part of it in funding the ongoing merry-go-round."