"I spent the second transfers on the construction of a new house, the one I was living in was old and the roof was leaking. I constructed this house in my early years and now it has served me long enough. Besides that, I also paid school fees for my children to mean they no longer have to stay at home due to school fees arrears. With the remaining amount I bought a heifer for rearing and a few foodstuffs."

"Receiving this money will enable me to construct a three roomed iron roofed house since the one roomed hut we currently live in with my spouse and three children is smaller than our family size. I also plan to buy a dairy heifer that will be our daily source of income in future whenever we sell milk. I will then use the remaining part of my transfer to buy food and clothing for my children and spouse."

"Building a two roomed iron roofed house which will cost $350 and buying one friessian dairy cow @$400 which means an additional ksh 120 to my family from selling 4litres of milk daily is what receiving this money means to me. I also plan to buy a stock of bags of maize and beans for household consumption now that we got poor harvests from the last harvesting season"

"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."

"Having my own descent house has transformed my life greatly and I feel it has brought the biggest difference in my daily life. This is because previously, I used to sleep under a small hut which was grass-thatched and leaking. In fact, it was like a traditional house because it had no rooms. I used to sleep with my whole family under the same house you can imagine the situation, there was no privacy, and according to our culture, it was not right to share the same house with your young ones who are no longer kinds. But then I had to option. The leaking roof was also stressful during the winter seasons. Because most of the neighbors were also poor with small houses we had nowhere to seek for shelter when it rains. We could stay awake until the rains stop. I feel there is a big relief now in my life because after constructing the new house spacious house, my children now have their own room where they are sleeping comfortably and to add on this there is privacy. I am so grateful to GiveDirectly Because I can now comfortably invite my relatives or even friends unlike before because of the condition of the house."

"My daily life's biggest difference is the anxiety I feel knowing that I will soon start building my permanent iron roofed house. This will relieve me from the always leaking (should it rain) grass thatched house. It will as well give me ample space for even my children and visitors to stay and sleep comfortably. "

"The biggest difference is that I have acquired construction materials. I look forward to sleeping under an iron roofed house. In addition to this, I have money to enable easy access of good medical services."

"In my opinion, GiveDirectly has just done well in improving our living standards because, before its coming, we could not afford to buy the things that we now own. Having iron-roofed and decent homes to live in, owning livestock as assets and taking our children to school was only a dream to us. I feel this is a major development as far as the money is concerned. I do not see anything that GiveDirectly does not do well."

"Building a new home with a bigger space is the greatest achievement I have had so far. I used to live in a house that was in a very bad condition. The walls had cracks and the roof always leaked during the rainy season. Due to my lowly financial status, I couldn't save enough money for this purpose. However, much I wanted to reach this goal, I had to wait. GiveDirectly assistance finally came through. I couldn't believe to have bought the required building materials at ago. I am now in the process of constructing a new one which gives me so much peace that I didn't have previously."