"The hard time i'm facing is money business. School has already opened and my children are not going to school because I don't have money to pay their school fees. When GiveDirectly give me this money, it will help me to make my market big so that I can get more money to pay my children school fees and build my house."

"The biggest hardship I'm facing now is money. My husband left me when I was pregnant and took away all the money we labour for and left me with nothing. I want to build a house and start a business which will bring joy to my family but I don't have money. I pick charcoal for people as means to provide food for my children. Sometimes my children and I sleep with hunger because there's no money to buy food. The house I live in is my family house. At times I receive lots of insult from other family members because of my condition and I feel very bad about it. I will appreciate any help from Givedirectly to improve my living conditions."

"The main difference in my life is that I am seeing my dreams coming to fulfilment. My aim was to have an income generating project apart from the daily works I am doing for some wages. Through GiveDirectly this dream has come to pass. I am looking forward to the second transfer so that I do more projects to secure my children future."

"It was around 11am when I was preparing some porridge for my children when I received the transfer message. i was filled with excitement and my heart melted in gratitude thus forgetting that I was cooking. Upon realizing the porridge had become very thick thus I had to convert it to cooking ugali. All this was because of the joy I felt for receiving the first transfer from GiveDirectly."

"Initially, my living condition was very bad. I used to go for some days without getting some food, it was so pity. But since the day GiveDirectly came into my life, things have changed to the better. I now get some food and I am living comfortably."

"Receiving money that you haven’t received in your life can make one change their program for the day. While washing utensils at home in one of the fine morning at around 10am, I received a message in my phone and upon checking it was a transfer of KES 55000.00 from GiveDirectly. I jumped up in ululation due to the joy that filled my heart, hence didn’t finalize the rinsing of the utensils."

"Having been registered by the GiveDirectly staff and informed that we will receive the first transfer on October 2021, I was eagerly waiting for it. On my day 3 of doing some preparations of a place where I was planning to construct a house once the money is sent, is when I received a message. I was overwhelmed after realizing that it was the transfer from GiveDirectly thus I gained more strength in the preparations."

"Being a farmer by passion, the first thing I considered was buying gala goats. I bought five of them for KES 30000.00 and some chicken for KES 5000.00. I have been doing the chicken business for a while and it has been assisting me in taking care of my family. But due to the dryness that has affected our area the business collapsed. I saved the remaining amount for family upkeep."

"As I remember that day vividly, it was on 14th of October 2021 at around 10am. I was on a journey from a fisheries seminar back home when I received the transfer message from GiveDirectly. I was overwhelmed with joy knowing that I have got a starting point on how I was going to develop my life."

"My desire has been rearing livestock. After withdrawing the money I bought 7 goats for KES 22000.00, mattress for KES 3900 and paid school fees of KES 3600.00 for my four primary school children and used the rest in food and any other family expenses. I decided to buy the goats in respect to the climate our area is. The area is too dry for cows to do well."