"When I received my third transfer, I built a semi-permanent house of 20 iron sheets. Before then I was homeless-sleeping with my mother under the same roof of a very tiny house which was very embarrassing to us. I am glad that this is no longer the same." (Country: Kenya)

"In my opinion, GiveDirectly has so well in ensuring that all the members of the village are censured and only the illegible recipients are sent transfers. This was done in a very transparent manner that left nobody crying for biasness." (Country: Kenya)

"Give directly changed mylife for i was able to own a house i never thought i would be able to own. " (Country: Kenya)

"I spent most of my third transfer to pay school fees for my child who is in high school. I bought building materials like iron sheets and timber which I will use to build my house in my own compound and also bought two sacks of maize for my family's consumption." (Country: Kenya)

"My life is different than it would have been if I never received the transfer in that I now have livestock and two of which have already reproduce that is a dairy cow and a goat respectively.I also have a donkey which I use to collect water thus I no longer make several trips to collect water. " (Country: Kenya)

"In my opinion what GD does well is that its effort is directed towards uplifting the lives of the extremely poor people in the community. Currently I don't know what GD is not doing well." (Country: Kenya)

"I spent my third transfer on paying school fees and purchasing all the requirements that were needed in school for my orphan grandchildren and orphan step children who were all under my care. It has been a burden raising these children since the death of my daughter and my co-wife. With the unlimited needs that human beings have, and having a very big number of people to take care of, I underwent a lot of frustrations that almost drove me mad. Any time I thought of the miserable life we lived, I regretted having been born. Am so happy that GiveDirectly enabled me overcome all these and made me long to live more." (Country: Kenya)

"My life is so different than it would have been if I never received the transfers as I no longer struggle to bring food to table. In addition, I have advanced in my farming activities, doing large scale rice farming instead of the small scale that I did before." (Country: Kenya)

"My life is so different than it would have been were it not for the transfers. This is symbolically proved by the kind of lifestyle I acquired upon receiving my first transfer. Contrary to my previous life, I feed so well and dress appropriately today." (Country: Kenya)

"My life is different than it would have been if I never received the transfer in that I have paid school fees for all my children and in the beginning of their study year they haven't been sent home for school fees.I have also cultivated my farm on time in this planting season hence I am assured of good yields on harvest." (Country: Kenya)