"I spent part of the second transfer on building a better and spacious house for my family. We used to live in a small house which could not host all the family members comfortably. Whenever we have visitors it was so stressful because we didn't had enough space, we were hosting them outside. I build a poultry house and bought Six hens for start. This is my source of income because I sell the eggs. The rest of the money I bought food and clothes for my children."

"I spend the money I received from GiveDirectly on purchasing a motorcycle. I had saved KES 40,000 from the first transfer and some savings that I had. I combined all this and I was in a position to buy a new motorcycle. I used it for taxi business, I am so happy because I have always wished to own a motorcycle but it was not possible. Currently I get a daily income of KES 400 per day. I am able to meet all the basic household items and save some money. GiveDirectly has changed my living standard, I have fulfilled my dreams."

"In my own opinion GiveDirectly does well by giving money to the poor in the community to build better houses and to start businesses. I do not find anything that GiveDirectly did not do well."

"I spent part of my transfer to build a store. This is where I will be storing my farm produce. I had always wished to build one before. I have started to build a better house, I had bought bricks and iron sheets before and I used part of the GiveDirectly transfer on building process. The rest of the money I bought food and clothes for my children. I am so grateful for the support because GiveDirectly has changed our living standard."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have renovated my house. I was able to buy paints from the hardware and painted the walls and the ceiling to look better than before. I redesigned my varender to look better. I bought the grills and rebuild it. It's now looking so decent and free from dust. Finally I bought iron sheets planning to replace the old ones out. This has always been my dream. I had always wished to do renovation but I didn't had the money. I had children in school. Paying school fees was always my first priority. Currently my children have finished their studies and graduated. I am so happy because I am now able to do my own activities. I depend on small scale farming and dairy keeping project. I sell milk and farm produce to earn an income to support my daily activities. Currently my house look very decent and I am so grateful for the support from GiveDirectly."

"I spent the second transfer on mattress, two bags of fertilizer and clothes for the whole household. The remaining money, I used to finalising a house I am building."

"I raise poultry to earn a income and also buy some for sell. The biggest hardship I have faced is when I lost a total of 100 chicken to a disease and only 20 survived in December 2019, this was a loss of about 60,000. Since then, I got discouraged and have never gotten back to where I was in terms of the profits I get from it."

"I was preparing breakfast at around 10 in the morning when a message notification popped in. I was a bit curious and since I was busy I asked for hand in help from my spouse to confirm the content of the notification. Upon checking, he realized that it was the long-awaited Mpesa message from Segovia Technology. I had finally received my first transfer. I was very happy and I just wish you could see how we reacted. We later planned on how best we could not utilize the money appropriately together with all my family members."

"Financial crisis is the biggest hardship that I have ever faced in my life. This is because I am doing charcoal work that earns me KES 4000 per month. Due to this, I have been struggling to meet the basic needs of my household and sometimes I fail to put food on the table."

"Getting people to build my house is challenging for me because they charged me too much money that I can't afford currently so that has been a serious challenge for me."