"Give Directly is a very good and transparent NGO, they are a people of integrity and I love them for that. What I don't like about them is they are too selfish, they even drink water from us not to talk of offering them fruits from our farm. That attitude of them really gets to me."

"The cash transfer brought fine feelings in my life. I feel fine daily because I am about to build a house that will shield me from the rain. My current house is not in a good condition; when it rains, water floods my house especially my sitting room."

"I am going to build a new house that I will be in without water leaking on me when it rains. I am no more going to be lying down on bamboo bed but instead mattress. I can safely and proudly say that the above statements describe the biggest difference in my daily life since I started recieving payments from GiveDirectly."

"After a long struggle fetching water from the river for my household that would take much of my time, I am glad to have purchased a large water tank that has so far brought the biggest difference in my daily life. I no longer have to walk a long distance to fetch water from the river but instead, I had been efficiently collecting the rain water from the roof. This is clean water safer compared to the river I had been visiting where people would bath and wash their clothes upstream while we fetch with our pots downstream."

"I planned to buy water machine for my garden and use it as a business to other farmers that will need it to water their garden"

"My plan is to build a good and a nice house. I bought all required materials such as iron sheets. I will start building a house when the rainy season stops. My sleeping place was also not nice. I used MK 63 000 to buy a mattress. I also bought some blackects. I have also bought 2 bags just for a start because I will buy some maize in the next coming days. I also used the money to buy kitchen utensils such as spoons, water buckets and pots."

"I felt so good the moment I received the money because it was going to help me address the challenges I was facing especially, food and water since it hadn't been raining and buying water was just so expensive and unaffordable to me. Alternatively, we had to travel very far to find water, therefore, I was so happy and relieved when I got the money from GiveDirectly."

"Yes, I now have a new business idea to sell a Cold Water and drinks in my village, and I think it will be a successful one because no one have such business here."

"The biggest challenge that I am facing is that it is hard to access clean water with the drought that has befallen us"

"Hunger is the main problem here because despite growing maize, our harvest is low because it is so dry and hot here. Another problem is that since this house has grass for the roof, it becomes a problem during the rainy seasons as it leaks and we end up having a lot of water filled in the house."