"It was around 7:00 am when I realized that I had received the money just after waking up. I was with my wife then and had to inform her immediately amidst my infectious jubilation that excited her as well. I could not withdraw at that moment since we had another event within the family. I visited the shopping center the next morning where I collected all the amount."

"I was in my yard when I received my first transfer from Givedirectly.. It was an amazing moment for me. Since birth, this is the first of it kind for me to received huge money as freed gift. I ran quickly inside my house and started to jubilant. I have been living in a tight old house along with my family. My plan had been to build a bigger size house when I haven't to get money. Thanks to Givedirectly for the financial empowerment. I believe that with my transfer from Givedirectly, my suffering will soon be over."

"My house is very old and it is almost falling apart. My major goal at the moment is to build a house and moved in with my family before rainy season begins. I was on my cassava farm when I received my transfer from GiveDirectly. I immediately ran home and joined the rest of the town's people who were jubilating because they had also received transfer from GD. I was so pleased and excited. I will use my transfer to build a bigger house that will serve as shelter for me and my family."

"Being also a farmer, I was in the farm ploughing when I received the text message while there. I do not know how to read so when I got back to the house, my son read the message to me and I was so jubilated when I heard it was an MPESA message from GiveDirectly. I withdrew the funds the following day and put to good use by buying food."

"I am passing alot of difficulties in life. I do not have food in my house, I have to burn charcoal in order to put food on the table. I get drinking water from a distance of 4 kilometres of which I have to cover that distance just to come back with a 20 litres jerrican of water. Living with all my six members of the family in the same cubical room is the greatest challenge I am facing in my life."

"The moment I received my money I felt very happy.The transaction arrived at 8:40 in the morning and was going for harvesting in my farm and the happiness was all over the village since there was jubilation every where."

"My family and I never had a suitable place to lay our heads. Our house is very old and the sticks are almost rotten. The roof is also falling apart. Therefore, when I received my transfer from GiveDirectly, I was very pleased and started jubilating. I will use portion of my transfer to renovate my old house. The remaining portion of my transfer will be used to construct a new and bigger house for me and my family."

"The moment I received the transfers I jumped up and down happily then ran too inform my husband who was at the farm and we all started to jubilate about the transfers to an extent that a neighbor saw us and also ran to check her phone too."

"During the early morning hours at about 7:15am, I heard some of the town people shouting and jubilating that they have received transfer from GiveDirectly. I quickly ran in search of network to check my phone. Suddenly, I realized that I had received my transfer as promised by GiveDirectly. I became very excited knowing that I could fulfil one of my greatest desires (building a house)."

"Give Directly transfer has been a long awaited dream, we have made lots of inquiry to the main office and we were told to wait, so waiting has been our only option. While on my daily hustle yesterday afternoon, he heard noise from the town, so we decided to leave our brushing on our farms and rush in town. When we finally arrived, to our surprise the noise was actually a noise of joy and jubilation, when we try asking, we got to know that our long awaited transfer was already here! I was so excited! A lot is going to be achieved, I thought deeply."