"My life is different than it was before I received my transfers because I currently own a kitchen. I spent part of the second transfer to build a spacious kitchen where my sons spend their night. Prior to being enrolled in GiveDirectly's program, they were spending in our small one-bedroomed main house. Secondly, I managed to buy a solar and we currently get adequate lighting system."

"I started a business and now I can afford day to day feeding of my family. I eat well without having to do a lot of casual work which made me look so old yet I am a young wife and parent. I paid a loan I had taken to buy building materials i. e. iron sheets to renovate my house using the profits I get from my groceries business. I now stress free because I can concentrate on my business without thinking I owe anyone anything."

"The biggest difference is that I have gotten my dream house which I never knew I would have. At the moment I am at peace staying in an iron sheet house and now the expenses I used to incur on renovating the grassed thatched house or fetching for grass. I now spend on cultivating my farm on time hence I am certain of enough yield to feed on with my family members comfortably. My neighbours who looked down upon me are astonished by the drastic developments that I have done."

"My new goal is to start a new business where I sell second hand clothes. I will save part of my monthly transfers and use the savings to start this business. I have been depending on the little money I get from casual jobs to meet my basic needs such as food. this business will thus be a regular source of income to meet my basic needs."

"I received the message at around 3:20 am.I was not deep asleep so I woke up at the beep of the phone. I can't even describe how happy I felt seeing such an amount delivered to me on my phone just as was promised. I knelt down and thanked the Almighty God who I believe used GD to answer to my daily prayers of having a better life."

"I used to sell charcoal in Mombasa, a business that could take care of my family without difficulty. However, I stopped after our government banned the practice. This really affected my financial status as I was reduced to a casual labourer. Currently, I earn less than 500 shillings a month an amount that is not enough to sustain my family. "

"I hope to receive a bumper harvest in the next six months which will mean food security for my family. I also hope that I will have extra that I will be able to sell whenever I am in a financial fix and raise money."

"My life is different now than it would have been had I not benefited because, I now stay in my piece of land that I acquired. I was able to buy a bicycle which has eased my transportation because I can reach my destination on time. In the past before receiving these transfers, My brothers together with their spouses could quarrel at me because of land. Lastly my movement was very difficult because I walked to whereever I was going on foot which has been simplified by the bicycle."

"My life is better now in that, I have been able to buy land, household items, Rent farmland and livestock. All this assets I did not own them prior to GiveDirectly's transfers. I lived a difficult life of doing causual labouring day in day out to feed my household because I did not have where to farm."

"My life is different now in that, I have a lot of happiness because I have constructed a beautiful house. At this old age of mine, I can not be in position to look for grass for thatching the huts but all thanks goes back to GiveDirectly for the support. Cattle rustlers took all my cattle back in the days but through these transfers, I have been able to own livestock once again in my life. Before getting these transfers, I used to suffer sleeping in a leaky grass thatched house. I was also faced with a challenge of looking for grass which is no more because I have built my house."