"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is lack of proper shelter."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is illness where i spend alot of money on treatment."

"When I have received the transfers I was really excited. It was at exactly 9:30 am when I received a message on my phone notifying me that I had received the transfers. At that time I was tilling maize on my farm. I immediately threw away my Jembe and in excitement, I ran towards home where my husband was resting as he was not feeling well. I shared the news with him and in excitement, he got up and dressed up. He miraculously got well due to the excitement. We then boarded a motorcycle as we joyfully went to a nearby agent to withdraw the money. It was a very exciting moment for me."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have started building a bigger house for my family. Currently, I am living in a small house which cannot accommodate my house comfortably. My poultry project will have also expanded and my income will have increased. With this income, I can use them to start a new project like opening a retail shop."

"I expect in the next six months to have bought the necessary building materials out of my monthly saving and use the money to build a kitchen where I will use to cook in hence I will no longer get exposed to smoke that comes from the firewood which is hazardous to my family's health."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have cleared paying school fees for my son. This will also enable me to start saving some money to use in building a house for my family. Currently, we are living in a small and old house and whenever I have a visitor, I will have to ask for accommodation from my neighbor."

"I want to buy modern seedlings and fertilizers that will enable me to get a bumper harvest at the end of the season. The abundance in food will keep my family afloat for a very lone period to come."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have harvested my vegetables and sell them. I will have also started selling some milk produced by the dairy cow so that my family will use the ones produced by the goat. Through the sale of this milk, I will be able to save some money on a daily basis and use them to pay school fees for my children."

"In the next six months, I expect to have acquired medical health insurance for myself and my family from National hospital insurance fund cover (NHIF ) hence accessing medical services won't be a challenge like before when I could hold a fundraiser to settle the lump-sum amount of medical bills."

"My life is different than it would have been if I never received transfers from GiveDirectly since I spent part of the transfers to purchase some masonry tools. I am a mason but for a long time, I have not been doing masonry work because I never had tools. I am grateful to GiveDirectly because from the transfers, I have managed to acquire new tools thus I can easily do masonry work without asking for tools from a neighbor who used to charge me heavily whenever I borrowed his tools."