"Currently, I stay in the same house with my seven children and two grandchildren and we have no privacy at all. I have always wanted to build a new house with ample space to give us privacy and comfort. I thank God for this financial aid it has come at the best time to accomplish my goals. I will build a three-roomed semi-permanent house where all my children can stay and have ample time to study at night. With the remaining amount, I will buy a water tank of 5000 liters where I can be able to trap rainwater for personal use."

"My third-born son is epileptic, it is a bad disease and it has caused me a lot of pain and suffering. He get seizures from time to time even at night, it is risky to leave him alone since he might get an attack and fall in the fire and neither can he go to the dam alone to fetch water because of the danger of drowning. He has several convulsion and he has even lost his upper teeth as a result of the injuries he sustained when he convulse. We have attended several hospitals and even used the traditional herbs but no significant improvement has been registered. I am a worried woman, it disturbs me a lot. I pray to God to heal my son to live a normal life like other children."

"I have been dreaming of having a bigger house. Currently, we live in one grass-thatched house with our three children. It is getting old and too small to accommodate all of us including my teenage daughter who ideally should be having a separate room for herself. When I have visitors around, they have to go to their grandparent's house to sleep or I have to look for alternative accommodation for my visitors. I plan to use KES 40,000 to construct a three-roomed, iron-roofed house that will also help me collect clean rainwater for use. For the rest of the amount, I plan to purchase a dairy cow for milk production."

"I have always had the ambition and intentions to venture to venture into poultry farming but unfortunately I lacked the necessary means to do so especially financially. Then lucky enough I got involved with GiveDirectly and as soon as I received the money I went ahead and bought one cork and three hens that I planned to rear and breed so that I would have more hens. Then I used the remaining KES 1,000 and used KES 500 to buy drinking water since it is quite a predicament back here to get clean drinking water and then used the remaining KES 500 and bought two packets of maize flour and kerosene for my lamps."

"GiveDirectly can help with money, for them to send their children school and, build house and to also provide food for their family. GiveDirectly does not take water nor food from people."

"GiveDirectly can help people financially, so that they can be able to live good life, by building house, and to also provide food for their family. GiveDirectly don't take water or anything from people."

"I spent most of the transfer which was KES 35000 on buying a secondhand motorcycle because I had pledged to myself to get it with this second transfer because I didn't have a job and the charcoal burning and selling business was so tedious and tiresome as very lonely as I would at times spend the whole day in the forest alone. With this motorcycle, I have a regular source of income as well as a means of helping with household activities like fetching water because with the dry climate of our area, we have to travel very far to get water. Therefore, this motorcycle is very helpful to me and my family. I am also very grateful because this motorcycle relieved me from the tedious and tiresome work of cutting trees to burn charcoal and sell, as well as it gives me the opportunity to meet and interact with other people on a daily basis, get to crack a few jokes which is a luxury that I could never enjoy while in the forest cutting trees. I am so grateful."

"Top of my goals has been to educate my children. Through the first transfer I was able to pay my children's full tuitions this academy year. I believe that when my children are educated they will live a better life in the future. As for the second transfer I was able to buy three bundles of zinc for the construction of my new house. As seeing this house is in a very bad condition now. The roof can not hold the rain waters anymore like before during the rainy seasons."

"Givedirectly came at a time most households were struggling just to meet basic needs. We are grateful that all households that received the cash transfers transformed completely. Everyone is having better houses, dairy cows, water tanks and many others"

"The start of the construction of a new house that I started with the first transfer brought other good things after. Even though I was not able to complete the furnishing of the house with the first transfer, the second one got me covered. I still needed some iron sheets that cost KES 9000 and also paid the remaining labor charge of KES 6000. I then purchased a large water tank with a capacity of 3000 liters with a worth of KES 18000. This has saved me a great deal in that I am no longer walking a long distance to fetch water but the gutters I placed around the roof convey clean rainwater direct to the tank. I spent part of the remaining amount on constructing a base of the new tank, which cost approximately KES 3000 after settling the labor charges, bought some kitchen wares that included cooking pots, cutleries, utensils, and other household goods that we never had in our household."