"Give Directly is doing well to improve our living conditions."

"Give Directly is doing well to help the extremely poor with the transfer and I am grateful to them for the level of support."

"Give Directly is doing well to empower us with the transfer."

"The challenges I'm face with right now are: the house my family live in right now is not in good condition and i don't have money to pay my children school fees."

"I have new goals that I would wish to accomplish but I don't have any more money to enable me to do so. I would wish to buy another cow, build a house, and buy a water tank. All these need large sums of money which I don't know where I will get. I am getting old and I am no longer able to do so much work. I had planned to fence my land and draw water to my compound when I get the transfer. I am still going on with the fencing of my land and it seems with the money that is remaining, I will not be able to finish fencing the whole land. I usually sell milk that I get from my cows. I sell about five litres daily which go for KES 20 per litre and I get paid at the end of the month. With this money that I get from the sale of milk, I plan to use part of it in finishing the fencing of the land. I wanted to fence the land because I wanted to restrain my cows from going to other people's farms and causing disagreements. This way I can concentrate on doing other things rather than looking after the cows as they graze."

"The main challenge i have right now is, I'm not able to pay my children school fees because i don't have money."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have purchased a piece of land. I depend on small business and small scale farming. The amount of money that I get through this is so small and I was not in a position to purchase a land. I had some some but it was not enough. This was my main target, when I received the transfer from GiveDirectly I felt so happy. I top up my savings and bought a land. Currently I am planning to start a horticute farming. This will make me get enough food for the family and even sell the surplus to earn some money to meet other household items. I am so happy because GiveDirectly has improved our living. I know own a land which could have taken quite some time to get it."

"The moment I received the transfer I felt so happy. I remember it was around 9am. I was feeling unwell. My son had the phone. He came in the morning and inform that' GiveDirectly has sent the money. I felt so happy because I have never received such amount of money before. My family members felt so happy because because of this support. I knew I would be able to buy a dairy cow."