"I was woken up by a message alert on my phone. When I called my helper to check and to confirm who could have sent the message at daybreak, I was filled with happiness on realizing that GiveDirectly had sent money. I thanked them as I celebrated with my family for this money."

"The biggest difference is that I now saved enough money for the sake of my grandson tuition fees because he will be joining college. I do not have any source of income to depend on for his education. I am happy that at least I have some savings to start with."

"I saw the transfer notification in the morning, after I went through it, I was filled with happiness because GiveDirectly had sent money to me, I never thought that I would ever receive such money in my life."

"I had began an investment in town from which I am selling and supplying charcoal, which has been my only source of income. However, before the coming of GiveDirectly, it was not doing well at all, I was earning a little income. Thus when I received my first transfer, I invested KES 30000 by purchasing enough stock, and now it's thriving well. I am looking forward to see my income increasing daily, which makes it to be the biggest difference in my daily life."

"In the next six months l expect to have put up my house and staying in it comfortably with my family members."

"In the next six months I would have started saving the money for my granddaughter and would be able to admit her in secondary school."

"For a long time my first born son has been sleeping over at my neighbor's house. Not that I didn't have money, but educating my three children and providing for other household needs like food has been more of a priority than building him his own house. But now that I am going to receive money from GiveDirectly this means it's time I accord my son the dignity and comfort he deserves by putting up a house for him at a cost of $200."

"Building up savings from the money i usually spend buying milk for family consumption as well as getting a supplementary source of income upon selling milk is what this money means to me now that i will use my transfer to buy a dairy cow for milking. Adding more goats to the two i own is also part of my savings plan. Goats multiply at a faster rate thus they are worth rearing to be sold whenever financial crisis comes in anytime. I will then use the remaining part of my transfer to initiate poultry farming for my spouse so that it can act as our alternative source of income"

"Raising school fees for my children has always been a challenge to me.Both my spouse and I are just subsistence farmers.The piece of land we inherited from our parents is not enough to grow crops for sale in order to earn an income.When our three children were in secondary school,it was one struggle after another;from growing vegetables to selling the little milk that could have been consumed by the younger children.The costs of education are constantly going up every year and without a source of income it is quite difficult to cope.This is the biggest hardship I have faced."

"The moment I recieved my money, I was overwhelmed by joy because I knew that my plan to construct an iron roofed house was going to be attained."