"Being living in a thatched house for many years with my family and experiencing leakages of rain during every rainy season is a miserable life that my wife and I have been working tirelessly saving money to build a house with zinc on roofing. Because of our long time planned to construct a modern house I will prefer us using our unconditional cash transfer from GiveDirectly to make our dream come true ."

"Being a single man who wife left because of lack of money to adhere to her needs who also dwells in a delapetated structure, I have planned to build a house with zinc on roof. With the opportunity to receive unconditional cash transfer from GiveDirectly , I will construct myself a dream house where I will never experience the leakages of my thatches roof during rainy season."

"Depending on the sale of rice produced on a yearly basis to pay me children school fees has a difficult situation that my wife and have faced over the years . My wife and have many children form which four are depending on me for food and schoolling and all of reside in this delapetated structure because of of no means of accumulating finance. With the opportunity from GiveDirectly to receive unconditional cash transfer,I will be able to pay school fees and construct a modern house with zinc roofing."

""I have been unable to educate my kids since their father left us. whenever I try sending them back to school, they always drop out due to lack of finances. So, upon receiving this cash in question, I send my kids to school and I will also build a house"."

"The transfer has brought a very big difference in my life and that of my family. We have been able to purchase the things that we have always wanted but are not in a position to get them due to lack of money. Our lives have thus been uplifted and we no longer suffer a lot."

"" There are too many challenges, but the worst of all is the lack of money"."

"I spent most of the money that I got from GiveDirectly on building another house for my family. It has always been my dream to build one but was not in a position to due to a lack of large sum of money that is needed for construction. I wanted to build another because the one that we have been living in was grass-thatched and it had grown old. When rains pour, water usually seeps in through the walls. I do not have a stable job and I depend on casual jobs to earn a living. I get paid around KES 300 per day. Out of this KES 300, I use KES 200 on the purchase of food and other basic essentials. While for the other KES 100 I save it so that I can have something to contribute to a self-help group that I just joined. Achieving the dream of building another house has thus been a big challenge to me."

"" Since my husband died, there have been many challenges, I brush bushes to make farm myself, and the worst of it is the lack of money"."

"Givedirectly has done well so far.the only issue i have with Givedirectly is I'll recommend that they open a special mobile money center in the nearby town to help in getting our transfer in time. Because of GiveDirectly i will achieve lot of things that will benefit my children future. Givedirectly has done good by giving me money to settle my problems."

"My goal is to see my sick wife get well soon. I want to build a decent house so that my wife can relax her herself. I might pay for my surgery in due time. In the next year to come I'll like to open my farm where I will employ my own staff."