"With the transfers from GiveDirectly, I was able to expand my dairy project by buying a heifer worth KES 25000. I believe that it will be calving soon and my family will get enough milk for our consumption and sale to earn an income. I will be using this money to pay for my children's education and to meet some of our basic needs. Also, I have been able to build a decent house for my family. We had been living in a grass thatched house with weak walls and leaking roofs. Because of this, our beddings would at times get soaked in rainwater whenever it rained when no one was at home. Having achieved all this makes my life different from how it would have been had I not received the transfers."

"My life is different because I now have access to clean water. I bought a water tank that stores rainwater. This water is safe for drinking unlike the ones from a water pond that I used to drink. I would not have gotten money to buy a huge water tank because my reliance on menial jobs and subsistence farming would not have enabled me to buy one. Thank you so much GoveDirectly."

"The biggest difference in my life is the home improvement that I made using the transfers. I especially thank GD because of the water tank right outside my door. I have a lot of water collected from the roof of my house that lasts until the next rainfall. I have never had to struggle like before. I used to have my grandchild collecting water ar paying someone t bring it for me. I"

"My plan for the transfers is to continue boosting my water business by buying a tank. Currently, I supply water through a kiosk but I rely on county Government water. Anytime there is a shortage, it really affects my business so I plan to buy a tank to store water. This will help when there is a water shortage because I will still have water to supply."

"My inability to adequately provide for my family has been the biggest hardship in life. This was necessitated by my husband's deteriorating health after working for over 14 years as a water vendor in Mombasa. And because he was using a hand-drawn cart, over time he developed chest complications. At the moment, he can not engage in any strenuous activities and that forced me to step up to the role of providing to the family. Unfortunately, the only available jobs are menial ones - largely male-dominated. That means I gain dismal from it, consequently affecting my family."

"For a very long time, I have been walking my donkey for 3 kilometers every day to fetch clean water. With my old age this is becoming a very difficult task by the day. My worry is that I may end up getting water from a nearby water pan since it's less tedious. However, this my pose a serious health hazard and indignity at my old age."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have been able to build a decent house for my family. We used to live in a grass-thatched house before and it had started raining inside. This usually forced us to assemble everything in one corner of the house to avoid being rained on. Our beddings would at times get soaked in rainwater whenever it rained when no one was at home."

"My first priority upon receiving this money is building a new iron roofed house since this small hut i live in leaks in water whenever it rains. I also intend to buy a dairy cow that will provide milk for sale hence an assured daily source of income. I will use the remaining part of my transfer to set up poultry keeping project whose proceeds will supplement that of selling milk hence improving my living standards now that i will be able to afford decent meals as well as proper health care aside from other basic needs."

"For a long time I have lived in a grass thatched roof of a house. While the grass roof has depleted and leaking, it's design cannot enable me collect clean rain water. Receiving this money will see me put up a corrugated iron roof house worth about $350 in the coming month so that I can get clean rain water for drinking."

"My life is different in that whereas I have been eating food, I have only been eating a small variety of food. Using the transfers, I was able to buy the foods that always yearned for. But could not buy for lack of money. We also have a challenge in our locality that whenever it rains, our houses starts flooding from the underground water. I am currently waiting for the rains to subside and the roads passable so as to transport materials such as sand and cement to plaster my floor. This will do away with the problem, I am excited that my house will soon be cemented. This will reduce the effort used to maintain a mud flour since a cemented flour is easier to clean."