"I have been able to pay off school fees . My shop business has also grown without me having to take out any loan . My posho mill is also doing well. At times in the past, when I was so pressed financially, it would reach a point I had to close down the shop and run the posho mill only sine I could not afford to stock both."

"I bought a heifer and bought my children clothes. I also bought house utensils as I did not have enough and whenever I had visitors, I had to borrow."

"I want to buy a piece of land where I will settle with my children.I also paid school fees and bought school uniform for my children. I bought food and clothes for my family members."

"My children were very happy when they were going to school as they had everything they needed and school fees having been paid. Previously, they went to school knowing that they would be sent back home for not having paid school fees in full. Thank you GiveDirectly and may you be blessed."

"I paid school fees for my child who is in secondary school and bought them school uniform. I also bought them clothes to wear at home and bought food for my family."

"I have been able to relax from looking for food as it has always kept me on toes. With the transfer, we had bought enough food to last us about 2 months. School fees has always been hard for me to raise but this time my son went to school without me having to worry where to get the money as the GiveDirectly transfer had it sorted."

"I spent part of the money to improve the state of my shop by doing a cemented wall and added more stock. I aso bought a subwoofer to listen to music, blankets and clothes for our family."

"I was getting ready to go milk my cows when my phone beeped twice. I asked myself who could have texted me twice then I remembered that it often happened that way when a safaricom message followed an MPESA message. On checking it was the GiveDirectly transfers and I was very very happy."

"It was at 1pm when I was in the shamba weeding maize when I heard a message beep on my phone. When I saw that it was the GiveDirectly transfer, I stopped what I was doing immediately and went home to tell my wife about the transfer and she was very happy as well."

"I was taking lunch when I heard a message notification on my phone. I checked it out and it was the transfer message and I was very excited. Shortly after that, i went to collect the transfer since I had been eagerly waiting for it."