"In the next six months, I would like to improve my house. I would like to cement the floor and furnish it. I have been saving for this for a while now and transfers will help me top up and make my long-time dream come true. I am also planning to buy a water tank. This will enable me to get clean and safe water for my family to drink through harvesting clean water. Buying a water tank will reduce my family's workload since safe water is many miles away. This will enable us to focus on dairy farming hence more income."

"My expectation in the next six months is to generally improve my lifestyle. I am planning to buy some sheep for rearing that will help me later to pay school fees for my children in the next few years. I also want to lease some land to improve and expand my farming and get enough space for my livestock to feed."

"It was in the morning at around 6:00 AM when I heard a message come into my phone. On checking the message, it was an Mpesa message. When I saw the 20000 KES received in my phone, I first panicked thinking that someone had sent money wrongly to my number. Immediately after, I received another message from Give Directly and that is when it finally occurred to me that I had received my first transfers. I was really happy and for a moment I was just confused and filled with excitement. It was at that moment that I finally realized that now my plans would come to fruition and that I would finally achieve my goals."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that, I will have bought fertilizer which will increase my farm produce. I am sure of getting more yields because I will be able to plant, cultivate and weed on time because of the readily available resources. I am planning to sell the outputs in order to take care of my needs."

"I had already woken up for the new day's activities. I was at my farm weeding my crops when I heard my phone ringing notifying of an incoming message. I slowly removed it from its case expecting a call request from a friend, but it was all a different story! It was a message from GiveDirectly notifying me that my first transfer has been sent. I was overjoyed as I dropped everything I was doing. I was in a temporary turmoil on where to go and withdraw my money."

"My life is going to be really different in the next six months. By then I will be owning a whole herd of goats that I have been buying monthly since I began receiving the transfers. I am planning to sell these goats to support and pay school fees for my brother who is in college. In the next six months also, I will have saved d enough from the sale of milk and hopefully, the money will be enough for me to get piped water. I have really aspired to get piped water for irrigating my vegetables. My vegetable farming has been greatly affected by drought. Irrigating them, I believe will improve their production."

"My life has totally changed compared to my past life. I had a single roomed, grass thatched house, and now I have built a three roomed, iron roofed house. I did not have social dignity among my community because of my marriage to a woman from different tribe, but due to extreme poverty in my family, I could not manage to pay dowry and this has generated a lot of mockery and gossip among my people. Now I have paid dowry and I could be invited into marriage dispute solutions when it occurs."

"My past life was a life full of desperation and struggle. Sometimes I could go without meals and this has made me developed ulcers infection, but now my nutrition has improved unlike the past. Nowadays, I am sure of having three meals in a day which was just a dream before. At the same time, I did not have any livestock, but now I have a milking cow and some sheep."

"My life is different than it would have been if I never received the transfer because I managed to build a beautiful spacious iron roof house which is very comfortable than the grass thatched I use to live in in the recent past. I have also managed to pay school fee for my daughter who is in secondary school which had been a big problem in the past. She was continuously being seent from school due to the fee arrears she owed the school which made her miss her classes and as a result led to a drop in her grades. I am now confident she will do well in her final exams at the end of the year. I also have a business that can bring me some income unlike the past when I used to rely on casual labour as my main source of income which was very unreliable."

"I am planning to buy a dairy cow using the money I will get from merry go round and income I will be getting from my school. This is because currently, I am spending a lot of money to buy milk for my family and also for the school. Owning a dairy cow will reduce this cost and will also ensure constant supply of milk to the school and my family. I will be able to save more money and use it to build more classes so as to accommodate more pupils come next year. I really thank Give Directly for the support they have given me."