"The biggest difference is that I am not worried whenever it rains for my house no longer leaks and my roof is strong and firm. My nephew is at school with a nill fee balance, he can study with minimal disruptions this makes me a happy aunty. Above all, I am guaranteed a bumper harvest after the sugarcane maturity which will generate income to help meet my household needs."

"I have used my second transfer in buying building materials and i have built a decent and spacious house. This is due to the fact that my first house was small that could not accommodate my family , the roof was also rusty and leaking when it rained. I have got old children but because the first house was small, i could not have privacy, now i have a big house with our room and children's house separately."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am no longer rained on inside the house because I managed to fix a new roof. whenever I had visitors, I could pray for the rain not to fall but now I am a happy person that is not worried anymore."

"I constructed a kitchen with a bigger part of the money I received from GiveDirectly because I didn't have a kitchen and previously I could cook on open air. This was unhealthy because the wind blew dust and sand on the food while cooking. In addition to that, I used to be inconvenienced by the rain which could force me to purchase charcoal so that I could cook in the main house because I couldn't use firewood in the main house since smoke emitted could ruin most of the households and the roof too. This was an additional expense. A portion of the money I spent on both a cow and a goat as a way of investment because I expect to have an additional cow after it has given birth."

"The goal I now and have I am really praying hard to achieve it is to open a boutique since it has different varieties of things available under one roof. this will attract more customers since they will be coming knowing that almost all things they need are available in one place and will make them save time and energy wasted going to different places. This kind of business is also promising at Mathare since they are rarely found."

"I spent my second transfer in building a house, since my first house had an old, rusted iron roof which was leaking during rainy season, 2 sheep, 2 sacks of maize, and other food stuff for food security."

"joining a merry-go-round with other 20 members each contributing Managed to join a group , lots of improvement which have led to living in an iron sheet roof instead of a grass thatched"

"When I received my first transfers, I spent a good amount from it in building a house for my family. Initially, the house I was living in was small as it was two rooms. One room acted as my bedroom with my husband and the other as a kitchen and living room. My children used to sleep at my neighbor's house since they never felt comfortable sleeping with us under the same roof and I was never comfortable with the whole idea. I spent the remaining amount in buying a goat so that I can keep it after they have increased in number, I can seel them and use the money I will get to buy a cow."

"It was all unbelievable when I received the message from GiveDirectly. this was a turn of events since from the first day when I was enrolled I never believed that the promises we were being given were true. Thank you GiveDirectly for delivering on your promises. my husband and I celebrated the receipts though in secret since everyone was silent to a point where we thought that we were the only household which had received the transfer. we came to learn later that every other person in the village had received when we saw the clitters of their aluminum roofs"

"Before GiveDirectly came to my village, I used to live in a one-room grass thatched house. This is now in the past as I have been able to build a bigger iron sheet-roofed house. This so far makes my daily life different from how it was before."