"For the better part of last year, I used to go for 5 hours to fetch water because the drought situation was bad. All the dams had dried up. During the first week of December we had short rains and the nearby dam was full to the bream. This brought me a lot of joy. This has saved me the burden of going very far to fetch just one 20 litre jerrican of water."

"The last quarter of 2021 was miserable. It was very dry, all the water points in our community dried up. The available water source was 3km away. I used to bathe once per day to minimize water consumption. Luckily, December was a month of blessings. It rained so heavily. All the water pans got filled with water."

"My wife died 6 years ago and this has made me assume all the household chores including; fetching water, cooking, and collecting firewood. This has lowered my self-esteem and I have always felt ashamed. I have desired to marry another one who can take care of my 3 young children as I hustle outside the village but it has never been possible. This has forced me to stay at home to look after them. To break this status quo, I only need 50000 KES to get a wife. This means saving my transfers in a Sacco to allow me to get a loan after 1 year. The remaining transfers will help me to support my children's education. Therefore, receiving this money means a stable family as well as restoring my self-esteem."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is since I started receiving this transfers is purchase of a 3000 liters water tank which has relieved from water transportation. Through the transfers, I have also managed to pay school fees for my kids and I have food in bulk which can feed my family for the next three months. I normally rely on second hand clothing business in order to sustain my family."

"The house I live in is incomplete. Although it rarely rains, I worry a lot when it does because the house gets flooded when water gets in for the incomplete sides. My grandchildren and I have to seek refuge in my neighbor's house."

"The biggest difference in my daily life since I received this transfers is relief from fetching water in the river. This is because the water tank I bought is big enough to store 5000 litres of water for a longer period. Nowadays, I no longer go to the river and instead I have more time to spent working for my farm. My kids have also grown healthier and happier because I bought adequate food and latest clothing fashion for them. The bean seeds I also bought using GiveDirectly transfers have grown healthier and can't be happier."

"GiveDirectly can make the poor people happy by helping them financially, to be able to provide for they and their family. And GiveDirectly does not aked people for food nor water."

"GiveDirectly can help people who can't afford so that they can improve their life by developing their community. And GiveDirectly does not take water from people or anything."

"I spent KES28000 on a dairy cow as a source of milk and income for my family because I had been buying milk daily for the past 7years. I also spent KES9000 on modern furniture because I only had two arm chairs initially. spent KES 3300 on a water storage container, KES 3300 on a sack of maize because I used to rely on casual labor in order to feed my family."

"I was so happy when I received transferred from GiveDirectly. I did not believe this from the beginning, to see an organization sharing free money on poor people. My family has been living in extreme hardship for a very long time. Cutting palm to make oil was my only means of survivor and My kids could not go to school because of financial difficulties.Also the house I'm living in has been in a very bad condition. When ever rain starts to Fall everywhere in our house is fill with water from the leaking roof."