"I started constructing my new house but due lack of enough finances, I was not able to finish it for a period of a year so when I received this transfer, I was very pleased and now I have a new house."

"My health has now improved and I am stress free."

"GiveDirectly has really given me hope which has made me stress free and it has made us happy as a family. "

"Receiving this money means to build ironroofed house for my family. This house will provide my family with better shelter for living."

"The kind of a house which I used to live before Give Directly came to my life, was too small and very uncomfortable but now I have a big house which makes very happy. I appreciate Give Directly for the life-changing experience."

"My top concern is drug abuse and alcoholic people because, these people are always noisy or abusive mostly using strong words, which is usually embarrassing to the one being abused, they can also be violence and emotional with no good reason, I just don't know how to handle them."

"My top concern is meeting daily needs, in African culture men are ones that needs to provide to the family, but not to depend on a women to bring food on the table, a woman will only help where is necessary which is not a must, hence when I fail to meet daily needs I usually feel bad as the head of the family."

"I would want to be the best Enterprenuer in the whole of Mathare. I would to diversify and be in different businesses of sell items in wholesale prices."

"The death of my husband long time ago meant that all the duties and responsibilities of the family were left for me. I had no job and he was our bread winner and as a result providing for my family became an uphill task.I had to auction some of the properties so as to be able to cater for the needs of the family. This for me is the biggest hardship I have ever experienced."

"We have been unable to harvest maize for some years now due to infestation of unknown desease making us work extremely hard in order to fend for our family. The desease drastically reduced on the yield and that has been the biggest hardship we have faced in life."