"I felt very happy when I received the cash because it gave me hope for buying a few things that my heart desired like food, during that time I couldn't even afford buying food for my family"

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have increased income from my business."

"I lost my job 5 years ago and therefore I was troubled and worried how my children would access quality education but since Give Directly came to my aid, the stress diminished and I am proud that even as we talk, all my children are in school."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I no longer fetch water for domestic purpose at River Nyando, which is very far a way as I have borehole at my homestead. I've also started poultry keeping which now is a source of income for the daily upkeep of my family. Thanks to GD."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I stay in a descent house which is more secure due to steel windows and door and also I don't struggle much on providing and feeding my family has I have enough food stock in the house."

"The moment when I received my money I felt very happy because we were very low financially, and besides our child had just completed Secondary school and we needed to keep her as busy as possible and this money provided an opportunity for us to do so."

"The moment when I received my money I had mixed feelings, that is deep excitement and unbelief at the same time; disbelief because in my experience no one ever gives generously like that. The excitement was because I had gone through the GD processes successfully and which gave results. I had very little sleep that night, woke up early the following morning and decided to go withdraw a little money to test if it was real—and indeed the money was real (laughter)."

"The moment when I received my money I felt lucky that as a widow, my prayer had just been answered since my daughter Sharon who had just been sent away from school due to non-payment of fee could now go back. My initial state of confusion cleared suddenly and I escorted my girl back to school the following day."

"The moment when I received my money I felt overwhelming happiness because at long last we could achieve some of our dreams and improve our standard of living. I even bought a mattress almost immediately to replace the papyrus mat that had served as our ‘’mattress’’ for years."

"The moment when I received my money I felt great excitement, but it was followed by unbelief, until I decided to buy airtime through the MPESA Account and ‘’test’’, then I knew this money was real, and that time had come to buy some Equipment and other items for my 2 year old Hair salon that had been limping for limping due to lack of capital!"