"Receiving this money means clean water for home consumption. Currently I live in a grass thatched house that cannot enable me to harvest rain water for drinking as what we fetch from the river is not safe and sometimes we get diseases such as typhoid. I will use KES 25,000 for purchasing building materials and cost of labour in order to build two-roomed iron sheet house. After which I can buy 3,000 litre water storage tank to harvest water for future use.I will not feel embrassed again borrowing water the from community. For the rest of the transfer, I will buy a dairy cow."

"Paying for school fees for my son in secondary school is an uphill task. This is because in the last season I only harvested five bags of maize from which I earned KES 8,000 from selling four bags. This was not enough to pay for school fees and was left with arrears. He has missed his studies for days due to school arrears. I feel bad about it hence financial constraints is the biggest challenge."

"It was around 6 in the evening when I was relaxing after having a very busy day. Suddenly my phone started to vibrate loudly which was an indication of a new message. Without wasting time I decided to check the contents of the message and to my surprise I realized that it was an Mpesa message from GiveDirectly. I was extremely happy because I was certain I would achieve all my heart desires including buying livestock and building a house."

"Givedirectly did very well in my life and that of our village , givedirectly was charged our entire village with so many new houses. Givedirectly was able to enrolled our entire village, everyone is happy and thanking givedirectly. So in my opinion there's nothing that givedirectly hasn't done well."

"When I received my transfer I was able to buy 20begs of Cement, to plaster my house. I also paid my children school fees, the rest of the money I was able to buy food for my family to eat. The balance money I was able to buy Zinc to change my thatched roof."

"I'm very thankful to Givedirectly for their support. Before than a wasn't easy on my, my children was out of school because I never had money to paid my children school fees. I was so blessed that givedirectly came to my village and I was successful on the program. When I received my first money I was able to register my children in school. Now my New goal is to change my leaking thatched from my house."

"My new goal is to build my own house, because the house I'm living in right now is my aunty house, that's why I decided to build my own house. Before than I used to farm the whole day just to get food for my family. But I'm so thankful to GiveDirectly for their support."

"When I received my transfer I was able to Buy 1bundle and 10 sheets of zinc to build my house , I bought additional building materials to start the building project. I also paid my children school fees, the rest of the money I was able to paid workmanship."

"My plan was to change my thatched roof to iron sheets roof, because the thatched was leaking every rainy season we will have water flouting in the house. but I never had money to accomplish my plan, farming was my sourced of livelihood. but when I received my transfer I was able to change my roof to iron sheets roof. My New goal is to buy additional building materials to improved my house."

"When I received my transfer I was able to paid my children school fees, because the little money I earned from farming was not enough to paid their school fees. I spent 20, 000 LD on 2 bundle of iron sheets to build my children house. Because the house my children living in is very small for them. Since I received my transfer, my life started getting better."