"It was one early morning while I was holding my phone when I received a message notifying me that I had received money from GiveDirectly. It was such a joyous moment since that was the first time in my life when I was receiving such an amount of money."

"I saw a message notification very early in the morning and I thought it was the normal Safaricom messages I always receive but on checking, it was from GiveDirectly confirming that I had received my first transfer, at first I couldn't believe that GiveDirectly would send the promised money due to previous experiences we had with other organizations, but I was now fully convinced that GiveDirectly had fulfilled their promise. I was very happy and the thought that now I would own my cow increased my joy."

"My life is different in that my children no longer miss to do their homework for lack of kerosene because of the reliable solar light that I bought using the cash transfer. There is a lot of peace in my marriage because I do not leave the house in the evening to watch the news in the local center because we can now watch the news together with my family at home. There is also my two cows that I bought, the joy that in few months time I shall start milking is great. I would have not been able to buy such quality grade cattle without the Givedirectly transfer since all the cash I earned from the casual work in the sugarcane farms always ended up in buying food for the family."

"My life is different in that I managed to settle the sugarcane lease and I am optimistic that I shall get higher profits once I harvest the cane come August. I was also stressed at the time I was being registered because I had a loan from Kenya Women Finance who were threatening to auction my roof and I used this transfer to settle that loan. I was able to set up a rack at the market and started mandazi business where I sell daily to our neighbors. I am now able to buy food for my family without asking cash from my husband."

"In the next six months, I will be having an extra income apart from my salary as a teacher. This will come from my vibrant poultry projeecet. I will be able to meeet my familie dailiy needs on time as I will mnot have to eait for my litle salary that only comes at the end of the month."

"Since we started receiving the transfers, It has been my wife's plea that we do with it something that will always be reminding us of GiveDirectly. Last month we came to an agreement that we willl start a poultry farming and with our scope we are planning to complete the project in the next six months."

"I spent most of the third transfer to pay school fee for my daughter who was sent home for the school fee arrears, after l have failed to pay for her fee for so long being that l have so many children whom l am taking care of and l do not have a stable source of income. l also spent the transfer on farming and l can proudly said that l got enough produce to eat. The remaining balance l spent to buy utensils."

"I spent most of the third transfer build to a kitchen, since this has been my dream and yet l was not able to achieve it because of lack of money being that l do not have any source of income. l now have a very comfortable place to cook in and my children too now has place to spend their night comfortably, as compared to before when they were spending their night at the neighborhood and this was not very safe."

"I spent the whole of the third transfer plus some a mount from my father to build for my mother house. My mother has been staying in very bad condition house which was almost collapsing down, being that she is not able to a build a nice because she does not have a stable source of income and they are also two wives and my father too is not in a good position to build for them a nice house."

"I spent the whole of the third transfer to pay school fee arrears for my daughter who was completing her fourth year , but she was almost dropping out because l was not able to pay her school fee being that l do not have a very stable income. I am doing a business of selling small fish but it can not manage to pay her fee, since this is the only money that l spent to do everything in the house being that l am a widow."