"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am now living a happier life than before. This is because I have been able to clear paying school fees for my children. Also, I have been able to start building a decent house for my family. Even though I have not started living in it, I am hopeful that I will very soon. Due to this, the stress we usually undergo whenever it rains will cease to exist."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am now a proud owner of a dairy cow. When it reproduces, I will not only save the money I would otherwise use in buying milk but also earn an income through milk sales. I will be using this income to pay school fees for my children and also invest it in other income-generating activities. I am grateful to GiveDirectly for enabling me to achieve this as it would not have been possible on my own."

"Since I received the first transfer from GiveDirectly, I have been working harder and harder to see my life better. I have ventured into many trial businesses as well as all kinds of farming; some failing some turning out to be successful. In the last four months, the biggest difference in my daily life is the profitable vegetable farming I have been doing. I have been working on my small piece of land which had tripled the cost of inputs I had initially used. So far it has seen us complete the construction of our new house and also completed the payment of school fees for all my children. All thanks go to GiveDirectly for the handful support they accorded us."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now own goats that are saving for the future of my children's education. For now, they are still young and I know I will be able to raise more cash to fund for their education by selling the offsprings. I am assured that I won't struggle to raise their school fees and reach their educational goals."

"My goal is to save enough cash that will assist in paying my daughter's school fees when she joins high school very soon. She will be sitting for her class eight national examinations next year."

"As a farmer, I depend a lot on the climatic conditions for my success. Long dry spells and crop diseases has affected farming in this area in the recent past. This in turn has negatively affected crop production. This has made me struggle a lot in providing the family's basic needs. My biggest burden has been paying school fees for my children. I have 3 children who are still in school. I had to sell some of my property to educate two children to college level. I have now resorted to more of livestock farming to try and change things but it has not been easy too especially at the initial stages. "

"After my spouse enrolled to school to further his education . We had to cut cost on expenditures meaning paying school fees for my two children who were in secondary school was difficult because entirely our household depends on my husband's salary who is a teacher. Therefore , at times , we had to compromised paying school fees for the children over my spouse's education . My life is different than it would have been if I never received these transfers because I have been able to pay school fees for my children for the whole term with GiveDirectly's transfers . As a result , they haven't been sent home for school fees and through their consistency in attendance, they have shown a slight improvement on their performance ."

"For the last three years, most of my income has been focus on pay my college fees and because of my meager income balancing my household needs and paying school fees was a challenge and the only solution by then was to borrow from friends and neighbors who got tired of helping out because I could not settle their debts on time . I am glad that with GiveDirectly's transfer it has lighten some of my burden since the last two semester, I was able to pay college fees on time without borrowing money from anyone . I also bought a dairy cow , therefore , I have cut costs of buying milk from neighbors like I did before ."

"I have three children in secondary school and one who is due to join college.I have been stressing over how my spouse and I will be able to pay their school fees at the beginning of next year till GiveDirectly came to enroll us.I am very happy.Receiving this money will enable me pay a part of the fees as well as buy a dairy cow.From sale of milk,I will be able to pay fee balances in instalments every month."

"I spent part of my first transfer on buying a pair of oxen at KES 36000. The oxen will help me in ploughing my land. I will be able to earn more by hiring it to my neighbors also. Apart from that, I also cleared a debt of KES 4000. I had hired someone to plough my farm although I couldn't pay them at that time. I am certain the level of food production will increase, because of their assistance. I then cleared school fees for my children who are in primary school and also bought them new school uniforms. Their previous ones were old and torn. I then boosted my business of selling vegetables since it was almost collapsing. I used the remaining amount to buy enough foodstuffs and other items that I did not have."