"Through this support, I have been in position to buy cows, that will help me educate my children in future. I have also taken my children to school with ease this term. With this transfer, I have acquired better clothes, utensils and food for the family in that, we can now have 2-3 meals a day. Previously, we used to have one meal a day and I had few clothes and plastic plates. My children's education was based on agricultural produce which left the family without food."

"In the next six months, my stay in school will be more comfortable now that I am able to cater for my basic needs and pay my rent without asking my parents. This will give me peace of mind and hence result in good performances. My parents will also be left with focusing on my kid siblings which will be less strenuous for them."

"In the next six months, I expect my lifestyle to greatly improve thus it will change for the better. My business will continue to grow and from it, I shall raise more money which I shall invest in livestock and poultry farming. My sources of income will thus be diversified because when I shall be in need of money, I shall comfortably sell one of the animals."

"I spent this months transfer on paying school of KES 3000 and the remaining KES 3000 went to expanding my business. I have saved KES 28000 that as soon as I am ready I will use to build my own house. I then used KES 2000 to shop for food items and other hosyuehold items in my house."

"I am much healthier at the moment and can work to earn my own money. The transfers came in when I was really sick I had been diagnosed with inflammation in the pancreas. I had spent most of the money that I had on my medication. I was in great debt and the transfers came in handy and sorted me out. I am now healthier and grateful to GiveDirectly.I also spent the transfers to start a business dealing with household goods and food items. The business is doing very well. It meets my family's needs and has also enabled me to pay for my medication as I still go to the hospital for check-ups."

"The Mpesa message came into my phone early in the morning when i was still asleep. I did not hear the message come in, neither did I check my phone when I woke up. Instead, I prepared myself and headed to work. It was at around midday when I was at my usual sitting spot in Eastleigh, that I received a call from my mother. It is at that time that I managed to check my phone and I saw the message. I was very happy as I had not received any work on that day. I excused myself from my peers telling them that I was sick, and I went straight home to plan on how I would open up a shop."

"I have a goal of investing heavily in agriculture. I have always heard that farming pays but my financial situation has not allowed me to practice the same. When I received the transfers, I realized that I have enough capital to do the same. So far I have started working towards the same. I have sought the land disputes and as soon as I get the 3rd transfers I am going to practice large scale farming of vegetables."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now live a more comfortable life as I was able to purchase some household items that I did not have before, such as seats and a mattress. My business has also improved and is so far doing well."

"The difference is that I currently have all those things that I had wished to have before but consistently lacked resources to buy them. I sleep in a king size bed, my children can enjoy watching their favorite TV programs in the comfort of their home and my visitors can now sit comfortably on the comfy sofas thanks to GD. This is a drastic improvement from the small bed I had with a worn out mattress, old seats with no cushions, and did not even own a TV my children were always found in my neighbors home."

"I expect in the next six months to have cultivated a bigger parcel of land and through this, I will be been able to feed my family members with ease from the doubled harvest and pay school fees for my children after selling a portion of it as well."