"The biggest difference this transfer made in my daily life is that I am now empowered financially to change my house roof without any delay in plan. I have developed hope of getting money from somewhere to take care of my children . I am no longer worring about where to generate money to reroof my house. I can now sleep fine. Thanks to Givedirectly for making my dream comes true. I believe that with my transfer, all my worries will soon be over."

"The new goal I have make before receiving my recent transfer is for me to rebuild my old house that is breaking down. My husband was killed during the Liberian civil war. I have been the only source of income for my 6 children. Life has been very challenging to cater to these children without any support. I have Bern watching my house damaging but couldnot attend to it due to hardship. I am grateful that Givedirectly came to my aid. I believe that with receiving transfer from Givedirectly, I will be able to rebuild my house."

"Buying enough milk every day for my family of five has never been that easy as it has been straining all the profits I had been making in my restaurant business. Initially, I had three dairy cows that could produce enough milk for our home use and a surplus to sell, but having all the five children in school demanded so much that I had to sell them one after the other. On receiving the first transfer, I had already made up my mind to spend an appreciable part of it on buying two dairy cows. I was lucky to secure two in-calf heifers at their advanced stages that I paid a total of KES49500. With the progress that I had been seeing, I am hoping to see them calve down in the next two months and start supplying us with enough milk for our household use. With the remaining amount, I paid school fees arrears of KES2000 for my children and used the remaining KES1000 on buying some household foodstuff that we had exhausted."

"The huge dependency on livestock farming that even though had been on small scale had been so helpful in settling most if not all our financial obligations as a household. On receiving the first transfer, we had agreed to bring in another dairy cow to add to the two that we had been having on our farm. I was glad to secure a good breed from a neighbor who was selling at KES25000. This will see us increase the production of milk that will, in turn, boost our savings towards the school fees for my four sons. I also spent approximately KES28000 on the construction of a new house that will still be occupied by my two elder sons and later by all the four sons. They had been moving out to the neighborhood to find a space to sleep which would disadvantage them a lot since they could not do their evening studies. With the remaining amount, I obtained a sack of dry maize grains and other household goods that we had exhausted."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that through the transfers, I was able to boost my charcoal business. This has been my major source of income for so many years. Being a widow, I have been the family's breadwinner and I have been raising my four children without any help from my in-laws. Life has been so tough and it had reached a point whereby, we consumed the profits because our needs were more than our source of income. I could no longer restock therefore the only option was to close it down. I am so thankful to GiveDirectly for the financial support because were it not for them, the business would have collapsed. I now have enough stock which results in good returns and very stable than before. For now, I can pay school fees for my children and comfortably cater to other basic needs like food and clothing without straining."

"In my mind GiveDirectly is doing well by helping us with this money transfer. I have not seeing any bad side of GiveDirectly yet."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I can talk of is the fact that I can now afford to have all meals in a day. Previously I had to take a single meal a day because I was lacking money to buy enough food. My children were malnourished because they could at times sleep hungry. I felt I had failed my children in providing such a basic need in their lives. I have been solely been depending on burning and selling charcoals in the local towns which was not such a lucrative business I used to get a very low income. With a family of seven, it was a struggle and it was hard for me to fulfill all their basic needs. I am now extremely grateful to this organization because my children are now healthy and because they have been taking sufficient meals lately courtesy of GiveDirectly."