"In the next six months, I will have built a decent house and have bought a water tank. I feel this will be the time being relaxed with ample minds now that I won't be needed to regularly smear my house or go far to fetch water like I currently do. I am hopeful of a happier life in the next six months."

"I expect my life in the next six months to be better in that I will have bought a piece of land. I am hopeful I will be doing more on farming on the new piece of land thus will be in process to cut off my household daily needs and probably have some money to meet other needs."

"In the next six months, I am certain that I will have started the construction of my house and besides that, I will have also set a shop where I can generate more income for my family expenditure is rising since we have also increased in number. I will be financially stable and my living standards will have improved."

"The biggest difference in my life is that I am no longer laughing stock in the village as it was before when my son dropping out of school because of school fee. My son now has stable source of income far much better than even those who have gone to school and employed. My son is now able to support me like any other child could support his parents, he no longed depend on me as he used to do before, because he his getting enough from his workshop and at the same time from the motorcycle."

"I have managed to put up a spacious comfortable house and my life has definitely change because I am now staying in a very spacious house where i can move freely and eve arrange my households in order without any stress. I have also started livestock farming where I am very sure it will do better and I will have so many goats that I can sell when I have emergency as compared to before when I had nothing, if I had to depend on thinks that can not support anything. "

"The biggest difference in my life is that l am now staying in a iron roofed house where I am never worried about rainnny seasons compared to before when I used to be worried more so when it used to rain when I was not at home. I have earn a name in the village, I am now able to interact, socialize and share with my agemates something that I was just longing for."

"The biggest difference in my life is that my son now have his own sleeping room and there he does not need to look for a place to sleep in from my co-wife's house as he used to do before. He has also improved in his studies because he has a very comfortable and conducive place to study in. I also now have a very comfortable place where my visitors too can spend as compared to before when they were sleeping in my kitchen."

"If I could not receive cash transfer from give directly I could not have managed to put up a nice spacious iron roofed house as I did. I could still be staying in a very small a grass-thatched leaking house and i very sure by now it could have fallen down. I am very grateful to Give directly for changing my life."

"My expectation in the near future is to have built a bigger semipermanent house. When we bought this piece of land, we did not have enough money to build better spacious houses. We were forced to build what we could afford which was mud walled and they are quite small. I also expect to be having one additional dairy cow for rearing. The proceeds from the sale of milk from the cows will help us meet our daily needs."

"My greatest desire has always been to be self-reliant, at the moment I baby-seat my grandchildren so that I get paid. And because their parents work in Mombasa, I am left with full responsibility of caring for them. The money they send is only enough to cater for kids' basic needs like food and clothing, -leaving none for other necessities like house improvement and health care. Receiving this money will enable me to attain independence and be in a position to meet my needs and that of my husband adequately. My husband suffers from hearing difficulties and this money will assist in meeting his medical needs. Additionally, my roof is partly covered with iron sheets, and therefore I intend to purchase the deficit thus guaranteeing my household warmth and peaceful nights."