"The largest challenge is the lack of basic needs for my children like food. I am a casual laborer doing timber cutting however, my pay is KES 200 per day whenever I get one and this money is subdivided among other competing basic needs. Sometimes we are forced to go to bed without food and this is usually very discouraging to me as a parent to see my children go to bed hungry."

"According to me, GiveDirectly did a splendid job not only in my household but also in the entire village. The transfer was sent directly to our mobile phones, the same amount and time as we had been promised during the registration period. Also, the money was unconditional; we were all given a chance to choose what to purchase. Therefore, I do not see any sector GiveDirectly failed us."

"After completing my secondary education in the year 2008, my dream has been to further my education to college level so that I can get academic certificates that can help me seek employment. My husband is a milk vendor and he earns KES 4000 profit every month and all of it is spent on buying food as well as paying our son's school fees. In May last year, I got a letter from Kisii University to pursue a course in Business Information Technology. By that time I had managed to save KES 12000 from my chicken business out of KES 57000 that was required for me to be accepted in school. Thank God my father came through for me as he offered to pay the balance. As we speak, I am supposed to be in school but I do not have KES 43000 that is meant for this term and this is making me sad. Receiving this money will give me ample time in school as it will help me clear this term's school fees."

"GiveDirectly does well by locating the hard to reach communities.Walking by foot to this community just to have people lifted from poverty to another level of of improved life is something I have not seen since the day of birth. Moreover, GiveDirectly is unbias during the enrollment process. In my opinion, GiveDirectly fair in its workings and have nothing wrong with its process."

"My goal before recieving this has been to have a new and decent house for my family. With the transfer from GiveDirectly I am certain that my goal is close to achieving. I have demolished the old house and now erecting the new one in that old spot. Since I was born this is the first time to receive this amount of money free without working for it."

"My goal remains the same. That is, to have my new house completed before the program can end. As seeing the house I am living in with my family is a dubbed stick house that is already falling apart. I am so grateful that GiveDirectly had me enrolled into the program as one of the recipients."

"It was at night around 11pm and we had already had supper but had not yet gone to bed as we normally stay up with conversations among family members until late in the night. In the midst of the conversations is when I got the SMS confirming that I have received the money from GiveDirectly. I felt so good and happy because I knew that all my aims and desires, especially getting a better and proper house, would be fulfilled because I have been living in a makeshift house that hardly shields me."