"The biggest difference in my life since I began receiving my transfer is owning a newly built and spacious house. Although the house is not yet fully built, I have begun sleeping in it together with my four children. I am a happy mother, and this feeling I experience more often whenever I see my children spending in their own room where I can check them at will. Previously, they used to spend at their grannies house hence I could not easily check on them."

""For now our biggest challenge is cash. Because when Cash is available we will be able to renovate our leaking roof, buy additional fish nets to enable my spouse expand the fishing activities and use the balance money for my children fees"."

"I spent KES 15000 from my transfer to clear fee arrears for my two children who had been informed that they would be sent back home anytime. In addition, I used KES 20000 to extend a room from our main house and KES 5000 to buy a set of seats since we used to use the old ones and it was risky sitting on them. Extending a room has been our goal as a family since the one we were using used to serve as our sitting room as well as a bedroom. Due to this, we had no privacy as parents and we would always have to wait until the children are through with their revision in the evening before going to bed. I fenced my farm and bought some foodstuffs to last us for some time using the remaining KES 14000."

"I was heading to bed after having a hard day a work moving from one village to another and from one client to another when I received a message notification on my phone. I wanted to assume it at first but after receiving a subsequent SMS, I became curious to know who would be texting me at that time. I became so happy on realizing that one of the messages was from Mpesa indicating that the promised funds had finally been deposited into my account. I felt re-energized and slept like a baby on that day knowing very well that I would finally fulfill my heart's desires."

"Buying milk has been my routine and it is usually expensive as I normally spend KES 50 daily on them apart from other things like maize flour. This was only enough for making tea and we would at times take tea without milk when we could not find anyone to buy from. When I received my transfer, my priority was to purchase a dairy cow and I spent KES 30000 to achieve this. Also, I spent KES 25000 to expand my business through buying stock for my canteen. I settled on this since I had been using money from my daily sales to meet our daily needs and I had started running short of some items."

"Crop farming is no longer profitable as it used to before due to unpredictable weather conditions, pests and diseases. Because of this, we always plant maize for subsistence use only while some people have resorted to dairy farming. This is because one can easily sell milk and use the money to purchase maize flour. I usually find it difficult to leave my house and go to any place since my livestock would destroy our crops and that of other people since we had not been able to fence our land. With the transfer, I was able to spend KES 30000 in fencing and invested KES 20000 in livestock by buying a heifer. I bought enough poles, nails, barbed wire and paid the full cost of labor. We spent the remaining KES 4000 on foodstuffs that lasted us for some time."

"The biggest difference in my life today is that I am psychologically settled, I no longer worry about where I will look for funds to complete my house, I was unable to build the house before due to financial constraints, I am so grateful for the support that lifted my living standards amazingly,"

"Give Directly is extremely doing well by providing us with unconditional cash transfer. I have never experienced anything like this before in my life from any organization. Give Directly is actually doing mavalous thing by allowing us to make our own dicision when it comes to the money they are providing for us. The only problem that I have with Give Directly is that, my colleagues and I did our registration and got the first transfer same time. But now many of them have received their third and fourth transfers, on the other hand, I have only received my second transfer."

"The biggest difference in my life is owning an oxen. Since I was born, I have never owned a cow although I had been desiring even to rare goats. Courtesy of GiveDirectly's transfers, I have begun raising livestock hence I am hopeful I shall have more cows and goats that will help my family in future. This makes me feel some sense of self-esteem. It has thus earned me respect among my peers in the village."

"I spent most of the transfer which was KES 25000 on buying materials for building my house, that is a better and improved version of the one we previously lived in. This is because we used to live in a makeshift house that was in a very poor condition and was not any different from sleeping out in the open. The roof was casually made of and covered with canvases that could barely shield us from rain whenever it rains which meant that we would have to spend the whole night awake. This used to make so unhappy and stressed, because we all solely relied on my husband who also depended on some casual jobs that could hardly raise enough money to even meet our family's immediate needs let alone providing a good shelter for us. Therefore, I am so happy and grateful to GiveDirectly, because we are now about to have a better house with a better roof and we will no longer have to worry about being rained on the whole night. I also spent KES 15000 on buying five goats because I believe that they are an investment and a tribute to GiveDirectly because through them I will always remember the assistance I received. Also, I believe that they will multiply and increase in numbers, and from them I will be able to upgrade to cows which will increase my possessions. I am so happy and proud."