"receiving this money will help us to renovate the house as it lacks a cement floor. I would want to put plaster on the house so that it looks nice"

"When you 4 have children in secondary school and colleges without any formal employment, you will often have to choose between living a comfortable life and sacrificing your assets for the children. For the past 30 years, I have lived in an indecent house and sold my livestock to trade comfort with the education of my children. Leaking roof and bracing cold nights has been my way of life for that long. Unfortunately still, all of them have not secured any employment so as to improve my living standards. My biggest worry is that I may not live to enjoy a dignified old age due to poverty."

"I spent part of my second d transfer on buying some iron sheets, nails, a wooden door, and timber. This was for the completion of my house since it was in poor condition and very small. Also, I bought seven goats at KES 28000 these are now the assets that I can always lean on. These will now serve as the living assets that will lean on in case of any emergency. Also, I bought decent clothes, utensils, basins to avoid borrowing from friends. With the remaining amount of m money, I bought sufficient foodstuffs."

"We had no matress or blankets but now we have been able to buy them"

"I bought ironsheets, matress, goat and food including school uniforms"

"I spent KES 21000 from my transfer to buy a water tank with a storage capacity of 3000 litres. I settled on this so that I can be using it to collect rain water. I am growing old and weak as the days passes by and I am no longer able to go to the river to fetch water. With this tank, I will no longer bother my grandchildren with the task of fetching water for me. Also, I bought a heifer worth KES 12000 so that I can rear it with the dairy cow I had bought using my first transfer. I will be using the income from milk sales after it reproduces to cater for my family's basic needs. On the remaining amount, I spent them on farming and to buy food. I bought some farm inputs and also used it on farm preparation purposes after buying one sack of maize for our consumption."

"In my opinion, GiveDirectly does well by helping everyone without any discrimination and I do not see anything that they do not do well."

"My life is different than how it would have been had I never received the transfer because I no longer struggle to meet our daily needs like before. This is because our daily expenditure has reduced as we do not buy milk anymore. Also, my spouse nowadays support me in buying our daily needs by using the income from milk sales. Due to this, I have seen an improvement in my health as I no longer strain doing some odd jobs around the village and I do not have stress anymore."

"My life is different than how it would have been had I not received the transfer because I am now a proud owner of a dairy cow. It just calved two days ago and I am glad that very soon, my family will have enough milk for our consumption and for sale. I will be using this income to pay for our daily bills. Also, having some goats are assets to me that I can rely on incase of an emergency since finding a buyer to buy one is easier. As a Kalenjin, apart from the pride one derives from owning some livestock, it is an assurance to me that I will be able to see my children through their education."

"My life has been so miserable from the time my spouse passed on some four years back. He was the breadwinner of our family and his demise was a great blow to us. I had no option than to pick all the responsibilities and I had to hustle from the casual jobs to at least earn a living. For all those years life has been stressful because even the house he left us with collapsed and we had to shelter under trees or in people's corridors especially when it rains. At some point it was so embarrassing becasue I had no privacy, my properties were stolen all was just a mess. Therefore having this spacious house has made my life so different and I will forever be proud to mention it. We are now sleeping comfortably with my children without having about the insecurities issues and the rains. Also, the goats that I own will serve as the assets that I will forever depend on especially for my children's education."