"Now the whole family is sleeping on matress, we can eat 3 times a day, my children have clothes and sleeping under a house with iron sheets is a good feeling during rainy seasons. My family is now happy which was not the situation before GD and we are very thankful."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now sleep under a decent shelter. The previous house was in critical condition and during the winter seasons, I had to seek shelter from relatives and friends together with my children. It reached a time whereby we were like a burden to them because they started complaining about us being there. So we had to stop asking for help from them and we had to sort ourselves in our small house. Life was really tough, but the coming of GiveDirectly into my life transformed everything. I no longer have to worry about the heavy downpours and even the wild animals especially at night after building a decent spacious house."

"Receiving this money means I will invest in a kiosk business.I had a business some years ago which I stopped operating because I did not have money to support it. But if I get money from givedirectly I put some capital to start up again to get some income."

"I means I will get a cow at 40,000 shillings, this cow will provide a source of income for my family.my dream is to have dairy cows for milk to sell and with Givedirectly I Know I will get capital to start.With the one cow I will buy I believe it will produce 9 ltr per day and sell at sh30 per ltr making a good venture."

"Receiving this money would mean a new house for my family. The house I am currently living in was donated to me by a sibling who left this village. This house is small, it cannot accommodate all my children. My elderly son has suffered a lot because he has to sleep in a house I borrowed for him 2 miles away."

"I have always yearned to be independent by buying a small piece of land to relocate in with my three children, since we currently live in my parents compound, but financial constraints has made this impossible. My first born son is in his third year in high school and my small business of trading milk and mandazis only caters for food and school fees. I am so grateful to Give Directly, being enrolled to this program is a dream come true to me."

"for the whole of my life i have never had such a huge amount of money, when i received the money i was very happy"

"in my entire life i have never owned a house, i used to stay in a rented house with my family. i could do piece work in peoples farms in order to find money to pay house rent and buy food. my dream was to build my own house and right now am building my own house and i have bought enough food for my family. i have stopped doing piece works in peoples farms and am able to concentrate on my farm."

"The biggest hardship I've faced in my life is fending for all the children I look after and we don't always have enough food and money to feed all the children and send them to school."

"The biggest harship I've faced in my life is losing my 3 year old daughter last year suddenly last year and it came to the family as a shock. We had to travel very far to get medical attention because there are no hospitals close by in the surrounding area."