"In the next six months, my life will change in that I will be having livestock. I am determined to have livestock in my life. In my area, livestock is a sign of wealth hence I would want to be among the wealthy in the village. I don't want to be the same."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will be having my own cow. The reason I have decided to buy a cow is that when it reproduces, I will have milk which I will sell some to raise money for income as well as family consumption. When the number increases, I can sell some to raise money for school fees and other family needs."

"My life will change in the next six months in that I will be having my own cow. I plan to sell the goat when I have enough money to top up and buy a cow. When I have a cow, I know I can handle any financial emergency without any difficulty by selling the cow."

"Before these transfers came, I had always wished to build a better house for my family since the one I am currently living is too small to accommodate us all well. Resources to do this was a problem since I do not have a source of income. I am glad that I am now in the process of finishing the house and soon it will be ready for us. I am glad to have been able to do these even if my husband is not around. I am so happy that Give Directly helped me actualize my dream of having a better house."

"Without GD, I would not have been able to complete my house as at now. I was also able to connect water to our compound with the money we received from GiveDirectly and we are optimistic to have clean drinking water in our compound. GiveDirectly has changed my life significantly in many ways."

"I received this money at around 4:00 am. I awoke my wife and she was so delighted when I shared the news with her. We got down to planning on how best we were going to spend the money and we did not have any disagreements on how best we could utilize our money. The next morning I went to buy building materials as we embarked on building a new iron roofed house. We are looking forward to buying a water tank using the second transfer and bring to an end the endless menace of fetching water from the river which is sometimes unsafe for human consumption."

"I was awoken by incoming message notification on my phone around 5:00 in the morning of that day. I took a step to check and to my surprise, it was a message from Mpesa notifying me that I had received money from GiveDirectly. I felt so happy and thankful to GiveDirectly."

"Currently, I have a goal of expanding the poultry farming which I started recently. Hopefully, after it has picked I have the plans to raise some money so that I can use it to construct my house. Currently, I'm staying in one of my uncles' houses but it's normally inconveniencing whenever he comes back home with the family because I'm always forced to look for somewhere to sleep."

"I received this money in the night of 9th and I just felt so happy considering that I had just received a letter from the university stating the amount of fee balance that I had to pay before my daughter could be allowed to sit for her examinations. It was so fulfilling for me to have an assurance that finally my daughter was going to sit for her end of semester exams without fail. She was equally surprised that we finally had money when she was at the verge of dropping out of school and she got more motivated than before to even work harder and produce good results."

"The biggest for me I would say is that I have been able to buy the cow which of course will generate milk in plenty in the near future. I also made sure that my grandchild's fee balances weer all cleared so he now has the opportunity to carry on with his studies with minimal interference. Finally, I feel that the financial burden I have been experiencing in the past was significantly reduced because I no longer strain excessively in getting some of the resources such as water supply which has so far proved to be an elusive commodity in this locality."