"GiveDirectly has enabled me to purchase a cow. I have been much stressed on whom to get milk from to feed my children. Finding a farmer who would be willing to sell milk to me was difficult. This is because they prefer delivering it to the processing plant at higher prices. Currently, I milk my own and used it for consumption in my house and then sell that remain to the processing plant."

"I have started saving toward building my new kitchen and I believe in the next six month I will be in a position to have finished its construction. This will change my life in that I will not have any worries in case I get any visitor unlike now which is very tricky I have to go ask for a neighbour for a sleeping place."

"My new goals are to open up a cereal business in Huruma Estate in Nairobi county. I also hope to proceed on to college and study a course in Community Development, as I have volunteered in the community before. I am currently a high school leaver."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have finished paying school fees for my child. I will then start saving the money I would have otherwise used in paying school fees and use them to buy a goat. When this goat will have increased in number, I will be selling them one by one in order to use the money to pay college fees for my child so that she can further her studies. I value her education most because it is through it that she will be assured of a brighter future. I am sure that the knowledge she will gain during her studies will enable her to make wise decisions in life."

"The next six months, I believe I will have bought the land. This will help me do extensive farming and get enough food that will last my family for long and also save the money I would have been using to buy the food to use it to provide the best education to my children in the future."

"The transfer has brought a change into my life that I will live to remember. Living in a house that was small and old was not comfortable with me and the desire to own a house constantly bothered me and there was nothing I could do about it. Its when GiveDirectly came to our village and through their transfer that I am almost finishing my new two-roomed house. To me, this is the biggest difference in my daily life."

"I was in a hospital when I received a message notifying me that I had received the transfers. I have been suffering from diabetes for over a year now. At that point in time, my leg had been amputated and I was in so much pain. when the message came in I laughed out so loudly that the other patients wondered why I was very jovial despite the pain that I was going through. I immediately called my son who was at home help me collect the transfers."

"In the next six months, I will have already bought a water tank. When this goal actualizes, I believe the harvested water will last me up to the next rainy season. This will save me from walking a long distance to river Yala in search of water. I will use this time to rest and do more important activities like cultivating my farm."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that my family will be having enough food because I will be using part of my transfers to achieve this. Through the use of our transfer, we will have bought six goats and I will be glad owning them since I do not have even one at the moment."

"I boosted my shoe business hence increase in income, can pay rent out of my business, buy food, and school without any difficulty. Initially, I used to ask my father for frequent financial assistance sine paying rent and school fees for my children was not an easy task due to the low income I use to get from my business."