"The moment I received the money, I felt very elevate. My spirit had gone low when an orphan that I had adopted had been sent home for school fees and I never had money to settle the arrears. "

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that now have my own bulls that I use for ploughing my land and I do not have to pay money to hire bull form any other person when I need to till my land."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that my visitors can now have a peaceful sleep."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that my children are no longer being sent out of school so often because I managed to clear all their fee balances and they are peacefully in school. Am also hoping to make some income from a sale of milk once my cow delivers."

"When I received the money, I was very happy because I could now afford to buy all that I lacked and have always longed for, this made me very happy"

"I was cultivating my farm in the evening and a message popped on my phone and upon looking into it ,it was an Mpesa message from GiveDirectly verifying that money had been sent. I felt very happy and relieved since I was certain of my family having a balanced diet food from that day hence forth as opposed to before when the reliable food were vegetable and shrubs due to the drought we were facing. "

"The moment when I received this money I was really happy jumped in the house alone singing."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I no longer have to do odd jobs in people's farms as I have my own sugar plantation I planted using the first transfer that I now work in. My children are also in school courtesy of GiveDirectly. "

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that the clothes business I ventured into is thriving well and earn my family sufficient income. Without GD support, I could have still remained a beggar in the village, moving from home to home in search for help."

"I received my money when I went to ask for after-work pay from a friend I hard worked for. I cultivated her farm and when It reached the time of payment, she was taking us around circles. This raised a very strong argument and before we could start fighting one another, I had a message notification and when I checked, it was my first transfer from Give Directly. I buried the hatchet and ran back home since my problem was solved."