"I have always struggled with finances, this is because I do not have any source of income and my husband's salary as a cook in Mombasa does not meet all our needs such as food, education and medication in case of ailments. "

"Receiving this money will enable me to have capital to invest in sugarcane farming for family economic sustainability."

"My house is very small and this cannot accomodate my family. Some of my children are forced to seek for alternative shelter at night and this has lowered my dignity as a father due to the fact that I am not able to provide them with a place to sleep. "

"Receiving this money means I will be able to customarily legalise my marriage. For a long time I have wanted to pay dowry to legalize my marriage but I have not been able to do so because the little money I earn daily from the cane cutting and weeding that I in the farms goes into our food and clothing needs. With this transfer I will be able to buy cows and pay as bride price. The remaining balance will go into improving our house and tilling our farm to produce more food for the family because right now we already buying rains and the grain prices have started increasing."

"The biggest hardship I have faced is sickness. I am the first born in a family of seven, of late my mother have been attacked by arthritis and is on very expensive medication that have drained my savings hindering my plans to expand the business. "

"My phone beeped and my son is the one who heard the sound first, he called me mummy you have a message, I told her kindly check who has sent me the message may be its Safaricom Messages I said to him. Reading the message he shouted you have received money from Give Directly. I could not believe until he became closure to me and we read the message together. He said mummy lets pray and thank God, and we prayed together. Later in the course of the day, I went to Mpesa withdrew the money and bought building materials."

"My life is different in that I am in position to build a permanent iron house that would not be possible if I had not recieved the transfer."

"My life is difference in that, I'm now happy because I have cleared a debt and also plastering my house which I could not have done if i never received the transfer."

"The biggest difference in my life is that I have constructed a house which I have never imagined to have built. Everyone is happy including my children and my thanks goes to Give Directly, I will not speak too much about Give Directly but my house will do."

"My life is different in that, I have owned a cow and my daughter who was to miss her senior six final exams because of lack of school fees has done it since this money enabled me to pay her school fees in time, something I couldn't do before receiving this transfer."