"Receiving this money means i will be able to build a chicken house in my compound. I practice poultry farming but due to lack of finances to construct a house for my chicken, i always sleep in my small house with them which makes the house stuffy. I will also use part of my transfer to buy dairy cattle which will act as my source of income since i Will be able to supply milk in my neighbourhood and earn money to sustain my family"

"our household is highly motivated currently and ready to work every other time since we started receiving the transfers. I have realized that the only thing we needed was a little support and that is exactly what GiveDirectly gave us. we recetly stsrted construction of a nenw house in our household and it is our hope that in the next six months we will have completed. the construction have been a bit slow since we are sourcing the construction materials as we construct which have now been characerized by an on and off progress."

"It was at 11:30 am in the house when I just arrived from a little walk outside. My daughter had a message alert from my phone and on looking she informed me that I had received money from GiveDirectly. We relaxed and we were very happy and grateful to Givedirectly in our heart as we pondered on how to plan for the transfer. I was excited and knew that my dreams of starting a business had come true."

"Living in a one-roomed house with a big family is not easy. We had no privacy, we could dress in turns at least to offer ourselves just a little privacy. This was so embarrassing. My dream for having a spacious partitioned house came to reality after receiving money from GiveDirectly. I managed to build a modern, two-roomed spacious house. What warms my heart every day is the privacy we can now enjoy and that fact that I also have a good house of my dreams makes me feel so happy. My children's life is nolonger at risk given that I sleep with them under the same roof."

"Financial crisis remains to be a big hurdle in my family. My husband's salary as a security guard at a local primary school cannot meet all our food, education, medication and other basic needs of our family. I also do odd jobs at times such as ploghing for my neighbors but still the income can not sustain us."

"Before GD came to my village, I had left my house incomplete for a period of six months. Since I was able to complete building it using my transfers, I am now happy and whenever I see it my heart is filled with so much joy and this is so far the biggest difference I have ever experienced in my life."

"The difference in my life since I received my transfer from GiveDirectly is that I am often peaceful and greatly relieved from the stress of raising money to pay school fee for my children. Secondly, through GiveDirectly transfers, I managed to buy a cow and now I am counted among those who own a cow in my village. This has not only boosted my esteem, but is also a fulfillment of my long time dream since I had never owned a cow in my entire life."

"In the next six months, I expect to have doubled my income through the joint savings with my mother from the monthly payments and buy a second-hand motorcycle which I will be using to generate some income as well as means of transporting my mother to the hospital who is aged and unabled to walk on her own ."

"Before Gd came to my village, I had always feared welcoming someone to my home since I knew that they would have to sleep at my neighbor's house like my children. I am now happy and I can comfortably welcome anyone to my house at any time since I know that they will have a comfortable place to sleep. Owning a bigger house is the most precious thing that has ever happened to me unlike where we were living in a smaller house which could not host all of my family members"

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have started a Mpesa business. The income from the business will support me in paying school fees for my daughter in secondary school and also to expand the poultry project that I will have started."