"The only change I expect in my life in the next six months is to settle my daughter's school fees arrears. This will give her more and humble studying since she will not be sent home for school fees balance as before. She will be able to attend all her lessons regularly without a miss which I am sure will impact on her performance positively by getting the best she can."

"I expect to have completed the house expansion and will have an extra room that whose construction is ongoing. This is where my children will sleep in. I also expect to be owning more livestock since I will have received my savings from the merry go round group and bought a calf. I will be engaged in raising livestock and this will be a better economic activity form which I will reap good returns."

"In the next six months, I expect to have bought two cows. I will use part of the transfers and money from the sale of some of my sheep in order to purchase them. The heifers will eventually calf and be a good source of income from milk production. I will be able to pay school fees easily and provide for the family."

"I received a message at around midnight on Monday. When I read it, I could not sleep anymore because I was overwhelmed with joy. I had never received such an enormous amount of money at once."

"Currently, I feel relieved and happy because I hired a piece of land and stock food for the family. Before, the cash transfer we had little land for agriculture with no money to hire agricultural land. However, we are very grateful that GiveDirectly sent us the cash transfer."

"My daily life has definitely changed because I now own livestock that I did not have before and would never own if I did not get financial support from GD. In my community, owning livestock is the biggest show of wealth, and now that my household owns a few, our status in the community has definitely gone a bar higher."

"Among the plans that we have in our household is to see our son join college soon. We have made this decision to ensure that he doesn't stay at home for long before resuming his studies after completion of his secondary school studies. This is so possible since we have started saving for the same. My wife joined a merry-go-round group to boost our saving ability where she has been contributing 2000 KES to the group every month with the other 15 members. Her turn to receive the contribution will be in two months time and this to us will be the appropriate time for our son to pick his studies. We are now certain that in the next six months he will be back to school and the challenge we had in paying school fees won't be there anymore since we have put all necessary plans in place."

"With the GiveDirectly cash transfers I was able to reclaim and more land for commercial farming. I am hoping to construct a permanent house after harvesting my food crops. Previously, I did not have money to enable me reclaim my farmland that was attached to a loan."

"I am so happy because I was to construct a house with the cash transfers. My community accords me more respect because spent the transfers appropriately. In the past, life was unpredictable. I had no money to construct a permanent house. I would have died without achieving my dream house. I appreciate what GiveDirectly has done in our community. "

"My life is much different in that I have acquired a plot of land and hired a fertile piece of land for agriculture. At an early time before the cash transfers, I had to beg my relatives for agricultural land and food. Life was so difficult in that I could hardly feed my four children. However, I am grsteful that the cash transfers brought a life changing impact in my household."