"GiveDirectly has had a positive impact on the lives of many people in my community. Many of us have been able to build decent houses, acquire livestock, pay school fees for our children and set up small businesses. In my experience, I do not think that there's anything GiveDirectly doesn't do well."

"I am very happy today. I have never in my life ever received such an amount of money. Looking at my house i feel its not enough for us and children to sleep in it"

"Givedirectly does everything well and they must continue doing that good work that they do, and because of this I do not see anything that they dont do so well."

"My life would have been so different if I had never received the transfers, I would not have been able to build construction on my house. I just know that I would have still been struggling in many ways."

"Receiving this money will help me finish building my house. I paused the renovation because I did not have money to buy the needed materials. this transfer will help me accomplish this cause"

"I've always thought that owning a motorbike and employing someone to ferry passengers would be a profitable business for me. So I spent KES 40,000 from the transfer to acquire one. I'm glad that so far I've made KES 300 a day, and so I'm able to meet my basic needs. In addition to this, I spent KES 5,000 on school fees for my two nephews, since I became their sole provider when my sister passed away. Finally, I spent KES 8,150 household utensils and food, to ensure that there's enough food for the household."

"We biggest obstacle has been lack of enough food , we also lack money to buy us what we desire, we fail to properly cloth our children as well."

"Receiving this money will help us buy iron sheets, a bed and mattress and we also hope to buy some livestock to use it as a future source of income"

"I spent my business in building a good decent iron-sheet roofed house for my family, the one that I was living in was a small grass-thatched house and a single room, I used KES 25,000, I then used the remaining part of the transfer in buying cushions and foodstuff, I am happy that my family has a decent home to call home."

"It was around 10 am, I was busy making clubs for my business when I saw a Mpesa message alert on my phone, upon checking I was excited to learn that I had received money from GiveDirectly, I was overwhelmed with joy, in that I stopped what I was doing to embark on my plans on how I would spend my money."