"My husband and I never went to school but we have the aim of investing in education for our children. This aim has never been achieved because, we are unlearned couple with no reliable source of income to fully support our children in school. My husband's job is to make and sell local rope beds and in addition, he sells sisal ropes. The income from these jobs are not enough to sustain our family needs. This forced my daughter to join a tailoring college immediately after her Kenya certificate of Primary Education. Receiving this money will mean bringing our life to light. We will buy a sewing machine for our daughter and hire a room at Bandari center to start a tailoring shop. Part of the transfer will be used in livestock business and the income from these businesses will help us to pay school fee for our children. We also plan to use the remaining amount to construct an iron roofed house for our family."

"My life has greatly improved in that, I own livestock that I hope to be a source of my livelihood in the near future when they multiply. Before, I found it very hard to accumulate money to buy whatever I bought with this transfers."

"My life is changed in that, I commenced the construction of my permanent house. Previously, I had wished to build one but never had the financial backing. In addition, the GD transfers enabled me to meet my family needs that were lacking most especially utensils and beddings."

"My life is different in that, I built a permanent house and own livestock. Previously, I slept in an old house that almost collapsed on me. In addition, I didn't have oxen to plough my farm land and it proved costly for me to hire and work at other people's farm land in order to have my cres of land ploughed as well."

"My life has greatly changed in that, I live a happy life that has been brought about by the construction of a permanent house. Previously, rainy seasons were my greatest nightmares because the thatched house I slept in used to leak every time it rained. In addition, I didn't have any source of income to build a better structure hence leading to stress."

"My life has greatly improved in that, I bought livestock. Previosuly, I didn't have money to buy them and therefore, never had anything I coud sell to get money for meeting urgent family needs like medical."

"My life is now different in that, I built a permanent house that has restored a peace of mind to me. In the past, I used to worry a lot over how to rescue myself from an old leaking thatched house I stayed in. The thatch material was also very expensive and I couldn't afford them to renovate the house since I didn't have money."

"My life is better now, in that the contineous monitoring and calls from givedirctly staff has made me acquire a house. My trustee would have spent all the transfers if it was not the contineous follow up from Givedirectly staff."

"My life has improved in that i nolonger share a small house with children. I do have privacy now compared to when i used to sleep together with children and chicken in the same house."

"My life is greater now in that i have land of my own. I didn't have land and used to rent for farming which was not sustainable for food production. Long live Givedirectly. "