"Before receiving my recent transfer from GiveDirectly, I never thought about plastering my house. For the passed three years I have been working as an apprentice at a mechanic shop. After my training, I used my first two transfers and bought a motorbike that I am riding for business purposes. Now that I am self employed, my new goal is to plaster my entire house and do other renovations. Therefore, I used some of the money and bought six bags of cement as start up. Additionally, I used a portion of the money and bought a load of sand for the plastering. The remaining money was spend as workmanship. Thanks to GiveDirectly for this unique opportunity that is changing my life for the better."

"Before receiving payment from GiveDirectly, I have been fighting very hard as a single mother. With my petite trading in dried fish my kids and I had been surviving on the little profit. Now with this my recent transfer I have decided to expand the business by buying my own fishing Canon since my community is a fishing community. Therefore, I used all my recent transfer for that purpose. Interestingly, I have hire a fisherman to do the fishing. With just a little time I will soon become an independent woman. I feel very delighted for this jaw- dropping goal. All thanks to GiveDirectly for financial freedom."

"Before receiving my transfer from GiveDirectly, I always had the desired to built a house for my family. I am a mother of three boys ages ranging from 4years to 10years. Presently, we are living in my uncle's house, sharing the same bedroom with my boys had been a serious and embarrassing issue for me. For this reason, since I started receiving payment from GiveDirectly , I decided to built a house of our own in order to provide space and privacy for all of us. I have not developed any new goal until my planned is accomplished. However with my recent transfer, I used some and bought four gallons of gasoline for the sawing machine. The remaining money will be spend on paying the contractors."

"In my opinion, the opportunity that Givedirectly has given me is a merits favor. I do appreciate the organization for changing my life and making my family happy.may God bless all the staff of this organization."

"I spent KES 38000 of my recent transfer on buying a 5000-liter water tank. I decided to buy the water tank so that I would be able to collect rainwater for my household use. This is something that I had always wished to have but due to financial constraints, I have not been able to. My tailoring business is all I have and I usually depend on it to provide for my family and to pay school fees for my three children. We usually experience a prolonged dry season in our area which usually results in some rivers drying up. During those seasons, we have to go to the rivers that are far to fetch water. I hence usually end up spending so much time drawing water. This hence makes me open my business late. The water tank is going to enable me to store rainwater that I can use during those dry seasons. Other than that, I also spent KES 13000 on clearing school fees for my child who is in secondary school. I am thus happy and so much grateful to GiveDirectly for their support."

"I spent the recent transfer money on buying some things that were missing in my household. I bought sofa sets and their cushions at a total cost of KES 10000. I also bought a mattress and new clothes for my children. They had for a long time wished to have new fashionable clothes just like their friends but I did not have the money to buy them. They are thus very happy having gotten the new clothes. With the remaining KES 30000, I used it in paying for their school fees. I subdivided it among them. I have three children who are in secondary school, and three in primary school. I was not able to complete making the payment but the amount that I still owe the schools is little. I am so much grateful to GiveDirectly for their support."

"The transfer has brought a very big difference in our lives as a family. We are now happy since life has changed for the better. We now have another cow and we managed to finish the construction of our house."

"The biggest difference that the transfer has brought into our lives is that we have been able to increase the size of land that we own. I now have somewhere to do farming where I can grow vegetables. I hence will no longer have to incur the cost of buying them."

"In my opinion, GiveDirectly is fair because every eligible household in our village was enrolled."

"With the cash transfer, I bought one bundle of zinc, paid one child tuition and then saved the balance cash."