"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have managed to buy most of the required construction materials such as nails and iron sheets. I am hopeful that soon I will be staying in a decent house that I have always desired in my entire life. Currently, I stay in a grass thatched house which leaks during the rainy season and in such times we do endure difficulty to sleep because we have to squeeze inclusive of the bedding at one point of this house to avoid everything getting soaked in water until the rain stops which might be probably at midnight. This has always affected the productivity of my children during the day since they do not have enough rest at night. The house is also small hence privacy is limited. The fact that I have started making this plan makes me happy and determined to reach my goal."

"I am mostly happy in the evening when I am retiring to bed. This is because my day is always busy with household chores. The most energy draining one, is walking for over three kilometres to look for water. I always wish for sunset so that I can get time to rest."

"I am planning to save and purchase a water pump to help me with my crops on the farm. This will also enhance their production."

"Walking to and from the river in our village has been tedious work not only to me but also to every woman in this village. Our sources of water are so far that once one decides to fetch water, she has to wake up very early in the morning before the queue in the river becomes longer. For my case, I always use a minimum of four hours to complete the fetching process so that I can engage myself in other household chores. When I received the money from GiveDirectly, I decided to purchase a large plastic water tank as a priority with a capacity of 5000 liters. This has really served the purpose and completely changed my daily schedule. I am no longer walking to fetch water from the river which is the biggest difference in my daily life since I bought the tank."

"One of the jobs I do at the moment is to supply water within my area of residence to people in their houses for domestic use and to business people with grocery stores and salons. This kind of job is tedious yet earns me very little money as I still have to hire a cart to ferry the water because I have not been able to buy my own. For a better life, I wish to buy my own cart so that I don't have to worry about giving out part of my daily earnings to pay for the hired cart. After that, I will make plans on setting up a new business on second-hand clothes and shoes that I can sell after the busy hours of supplying water during the morning hours. This will be an extra source of income for me and away out from the hectic construction jobs that I have to do sometimes when the water business does not do well."

"My life is currently different from how it was four months ago. I managed to plaster my floor using the payments I got from Give Directly. This has brought a change in my life because I now have more time to do other activities. Cleaning a plastered flour takes a very short time and I use less water compared to the mud floor. I also don't have to repair the floor more often. It will take several years before I think of repairing this plastered floor. I used to be afraid of contacting respiratory diseases from dust on the mud-walled house but I am glad I plastered it before getting sick. Thanks to GD for enabling me to do."

"The biggest difference in my daily life ever since I started receiving transfers from Give directly is that I was able to buy sheep. I have always wanted to buy sheep because they reproduce twice a year. They also require little attention compared to other livestock such as dairy cows. I felt they will survive and still do well with the climatic condition of this area since they eat less and require little water. They are also in high demand and have a ready market. I feel I made the right decision to buy these sheep because I will get huge profits within a very short period of time"

"Provision of clean water to my family has been the biggest hardship I have been experiencing. We normally drink untreated water fetched from the village's local dam and most of the time it is not clean since cattle from the village use the dam. Uncouth behaviours from the villagers e.g throwing litter to the dam has also contributed to this. This has brought health issues to my kids which has resulted to frequent visit to the nearby dispensary."

"When I got married here about six months ago I was met with culture shock and a fair share of environmental adversity, especially the lack of clean and safe water for drinking. Having lived in my parents' home that had clean tapped water all my life, it has been so hard to settle into my new matrimonial home without the same. I have been forced to walk several kilometers in search of clean water. But in most days, I am forced to conform and persevere through the dirty condition of stagnant pond water in my new environment. This is the biggest hardship I always face. My constant and incessant worry is that my small child and I are going to be exposed to waterborne diseases. "

"On my usual day I wake up at 6:00am change into my work clothes then head to work at Mlango Kubwa village in Mathare. I work as a garbage collector in various flats until 9:00am then go back home to take a shower and prepare breakfast. I then go to my groups water point and video shop to supervise my teams work until 8:30pm, I close the video shop then head home, take my supper then retire to bed. During my free time I coach young boys and girls in football and play football with my peers."