"The biggest difference in my daily life since I started receiving the transfer is purchase of a water tank which can store rain water for a longer time. Initially, I desired to have a water tank for a long time but couldn't afford. Through the transfers, I have also managed to buy food in bulk for my family and as a result we have grown healthier and happier. In addition we have decent clothing which we couldn't afford before."

"I went to purchase some materials that I would use in constructing a stand for the water tank immediately after receiving the transfer since I had already planned on how I would spend the entire amount. After a week, I went and purchased the water tank and it rained after two days. I can confidently say that GiveDirectlys transfers were timely since I have never gone to the river to fetch water for the last 35 days. In addition, I have been able to do cleanliness whenever I feel like and we also have clean water at our doorstep all the time. This has made my daily life different since apart from my children wearing clean clothes all the time, I no longer get tired of going to the river to fetch water daily."

"It was a early in the morning when I received a call from a friend. When I finished taking with her, There was a message confirming that I have received money from GiveDirectly. I felt so happy because I have never received such amount of money before. I knew GiveDirectly would fulfill their promises. I immediately called my spouse to inform him of the money. He felt so happy too. We stayed for one week planning on how to spend it. The first priority was to buy a water tank for storing clean water for domestic uses. I am so grateful for the support because GiveDirectly has changed our living standards."

"GiveDirectly can make people happy by helping them financially to be able to support their family and development their community. GiveDirectly can't take water or anything from people."

"The biggest difference in my life is that I am living a happy life after completing my desire of constructing a concrete water tank. Furthermore, my kids are enjoying wearing new clothes. I am sure that I will store enough water for my family as well as sell extra to earn a living."

"As I was resting from fetching some water at around 9am, I received a message in my phone. Lucky enough my helper wasn’t far, I contacted him and he checked the message so as to interpret for me. After reading he looked at me and slightly smiled. I involuntarily smiled back too. “You have received the money that you were promised by the people who came and registered you.” He said. My mind reflected back and remembered that, GiveDirectly staff came with this transfer information and I was registered. I jumped up in happiness knowing that some pending issues that I was unable to do them because of money were going to be solved."

"While resting from fetching some water at around 4pm, I received a message in my phone. Upon checking, it was the promised transfer from GiveDirectly. My heart was filled with gratitude and thanksgiving for the act of being sent a huge amount of money something that I haven’t seeing in my life."

"Getting water has been the greatest challenge in our area, we don't have any dams around and this is making our life terrible. we usually walk far distances looking for expensive tap water and at the same time not reliable, The taps can go dry for weeks, how then do we survive in such situations."

"I am a single mother of one and I have been depending on casual work in the neighborhood for survival. I usually work on people's farms and sometimes help them in fetching water and I would get paid KES 100 at the end of the day. This was always not enough for our basic needs since I buy everything ranging from maize flour to milk which costs KES 20 for half a liter. Due to this, I decided to spend KES 20000 from my transfer to start up a business of buying and selling shoes in our neighboring town and KES 25000 on the purchase of a heifer. when it reproduces, I will earn some money through the sale of milk after setting aside some for our consumption. Using the remaining KES 9000, I bought some food and clothes for my son and me."

"After the short rains in December, I no longer have to walk for long distances to fetch water. We have a dam closer home which we currently depend on. This has really brought happiness in my life. I used to take 5 hours to look for water for domestic use."