"That very day, I was seated in a local hotel in a nearby market taking tea when I saw the transfer message. I was overwhelmed with happiness, it's even hard to explain how I felt."

"I am happy that I am able to provide for my family without having to struggled as much as I used to do before receiving the transfers."

"I was at home relaxing when I heard my message tone ring twice and I said to myself " that's so unusual. I call my eldest son to check was was it all about and he screamed, " you have received transfers from GiveDirectly". I couldn't believe it as I had to wait for my second born to confirm. I was so happy and I couldn't wait my husband to come home to tell him about it."

"It was around 10 pm and we had just retired to our beds. Suddenly, my phone rang hence notifying me of a new message. We wondered with my wife what could the message be all about, and we hence decided to check the contents of the SMS to clear our doubts. We were so happy that we lost our sleep when we read the SMS which was saying that we had received the promised transfer of KES 55000 from GiveDirectly. We gave thanks to God because we had never received such a huge sum of money."

"As I told you earlier, I am a classroom Teacher and farmer who has not been paid for the past five months. This has really cause me sleepless nights because I am finding it difficult to raise funds and support my family."

"As I told you earlier, we are farmers and we are living by the produce from our farming we do. We are not really getting produce from farming like before which is making it very difficult to raise funds for my children school fees and net up with other domestic needs."

"Getting a good job is very difficult in my country, we don't respect labour, I went out of job since 2014 due to me loosing my job, I decided to move to the rural side to reduce our cost if living, we are faced with serious challenges regarding to better lodging, good food, and better schools for our children."

"We don't have a better living place, we don't eat good food, because of the water boundary, we don't have access to all these things."

"It was a cool evening as usual and I was taking rest at home after a long tiresome day. Since I did not have any engagement, I was just scrolling through messages on my phone in order to reduce boredom. Unexpectedly, I saw a Mpesa message pop up on my phone screen. Being driven with curiosity, I hurriedly opened up the message to get its content. Amazingly, it was the GiveDirectly's transfer. I felt extremely happy and counted myself very fòtunate because that marked a new beginning in my life. That evening I strongly believed that GiveDirectly's impact on my life would always be fresh in my mind and among my family members."

"I spent most of my transfer which was KES 20000 on materials for improving my house by constructing concrete pillars all round it so as to reinforce and secure its walls for the long term. I did this because I believe house is the most important thing and a safe as well as secure house is all that everyone needs. I am so happy that I am no longer stressed neither am I under pressure with sleepless nights because of weak walls that could collapse anytime when it rains, as well as no longer worried about where I'll keep my guests. This gives me a peace of mind since these concrete pillars will take very long for them to weaken and need to be replaced or reinforced again, all thanks to GiveDirectly. I also spent KES 15000 on buying a cow because I know it is a very beneficial project both for short and long term. This cow will regularly produce milk for my family's breakfast as well as a source of little income since I can offer the surplus to our neighbors at a cost. It is, also, a way of keeping myself busy as I will always be taking care of it by taking it out to graze, I'll always see and remember the assistance I received from GiveDirectly through it. For the long term benefits, I know it will reproduce and increase in numbers which inturn I'll be able to sell one or two and address the financial challenges I will be facing in the future. Therefore, I am so happy and proud."