"GiveDirectly does well by giving every eligible households the needed amount to help improve their living conditions. Few months from now this hold community will have no thatch house. GiveDirectly is changing lives greatly by helping the poor with money to get out of poverty. In my opinion, GiveDirectly does not have anything wrong with it workings."

"The biggest difference in my daily life since I started receiving money from GiveDirectly is that there are developments that couldn't happen before. I was able to get the materials that are to be used to build me a better and proper house, as well as got a motorcycle that is our regular source of income which apart from helping us meet our family's daily immediate needs also helps us with household chores and activities like fetching water. All that could only happen through the assistance I received from GiveDirectly, I am so grateful."

"Receiving this money means that I will get another source of income through keeping a dairy cow. At the moment, I have only one that provides us with milk only for consumption. I, therefore, will buy another one, so that I can sell its milk and spend the money on food and sugar for my family. This will relieve me because I will be able to save money that I make from a motorcycle taxi business. I will spend about KES 40,000 on this and the rest will go to home improvement. I will buy a water tank for storing rainwater that we need for cooking and drinking at about KES 20,000."

"The unavailable jobs and income are some of the major challenges that I am currently facing. I buy and sell goats on commission in markets that enable me to sustain my family. There are times that business can be tough and I end up getting no jobs for some time and this makes it difficult for me to provide for my family."

"Receiving this money will uplift the standard of living for me and my four children as well. I will use 10,000 KES to buy a bed and a matress for my children so that they can sleep comfortably. They are currently sleeping in a bed made of ropes without a matress. I will then repair the walls to my house at a cost of 15,000 KES. One part of the wall is already falling off. I will also use part of the transfers for the medication of my son who seems to be asthmatic. He needs some tests."

"Receiving this money will mean that I will be able to upgrade my education since I am a teacher by profession and depend on this to earn a living. I plan to do a proficiency course in education that is mandatory for every teacher and it requires a lot of money. I plan to join the 2023 intake and since it is still far, I will buy a calf and five goats as assets so that by next year, I will earn more money from them and be able to start the course."

"I spent KES 33000 to buy a daily cow. This is because for the longest time, I have wanted to buy one but the daily KES 200 commission that I get from riding a motorcycle taxi is not enough to provide my family and save towards buying a cow. I'm hopeful that in a year or so, the cow would have given birth and I will be able to sell the milk in my neighborhood and earn some income. I spent KES 6600 to buy two chairs and a table to replace the broken ones at home and spend KES 6000 to buy two sacks of maize enough to take us through the drought season. I still have the balance of KES 7400 which I use to cater for daily expenses. I'm so grateful to GiveDirectly for the support."

"I spent my most recent transfer to buy additional building materials worth KES 7000 that I shall use to build a new and better house. I have been living in an old and small leaking house. I have actually been finding it hard even to prepare for my 3 children sleeping area during rainy seasons because whenever it rains, we always have to be awake. Sometimes my children's bedding become wet thus they experience a lot of discomfort. In addition, I bought a new bed at KES 6000 and a mattress at KES 3000. I shall therefore give out my previous bed and mattress to my children as away of improving their sleeping materials."

"Financial constraints are the greatest challenge. Since my husband fell sick six months ago, I am the only one fending for my family. This has been difficult because I left my job three months ago to look after him. Currently, we have no source income as a result of selling all the livestock we had and a piece of land that we used to farm to raise money for his hospital bill that is still in arrears of KES 1,200,000. We depend on family and well wishes to get money for food and his medication. As we speak, we are planning for a fundraiser event in a month to raise money for offsetting the hospital bill."

"The challenge that we are facing at the moment is school fee payment, it gives us sleepless nights because we do not know how to clear the arrears. The cost of living also continues to rise and it makes us unable to afford basic needs like diverse foods for the children."