"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now mingle freely with confidence among my peers because I have a descent house that they also admire, unlike before when I was the laughing stock of the village due to my old dilapidated house that had big stains of rain water on the inner walls as evidence of a leaking roof!! I will forever remain grateful to Give Directly...May God bless you."

"When I received my second transfer, I used a total of 32000 KES to buy 4 sheep and 1 cow which I currently rear in my home because I had no domestic animal before and my peers used to despise me. i also bought a sofa set at 7500 KES because I did not have proper seats in my house; then spent the balance on buying a blanket, utensils, water storage container and foodstuffs for my family."

"I spent my third transfer to dig a well to provide me with water in my home, I spent some amount t pay school fees for both my children who are in high school and college and the remaining amount, I spent to buy bedding and utensils"

"I was in the waters fishing when I received a call from my wife telling me of the good news and I was very glad because I knew it would save me a lot."

"I used a portion of the transfer to buy 3 bulls. I bought a water pump for irrigation purposes. I also bought foodstuffs for family consumption."

"I spent 4000 KES from my first transfer to buy and fix a new wooden door to my house since the old one was eaten by termites and had become very weak. I also paid labor for repairing the walls of my house by mudding since rain water had erroded the walls badly. The whole balance was spent on buying foodstuffs for my family since we did not have enough food in the house."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that no longer rained upon now that am in an iron roofed house, unlike before when I used to live in a grass thatched house. I also get rain water from my ironed roof so I no longer use dirty river water for drinking."

"My house had been burnt down in an accident, losing most of the items in the house. I then used the remaining water to my lwak.....ojtimre."

"I spent my second transfer on installation of a 5,000 litre plastic water storage tank (40,000 KES), paid my Tithe to my Church as a sign of gratitude to God (5,000 KES)and started a rice -selling (5,000 KES). "

"I spent my second transfer on building a 2-roomed kitchen (30,000 KES), a mattress (1,800 KES), a water storage container,a bag of dry corn for family consumption (5,000 KES) as well as assorted food items."