"The biggest hardship I have faced is having limited land to cultivate crops. All the acres of land for my late husband were handed to the money lender as collateral for the loan we collected. But my parents gave me only one acre where I plant a few crops to sustain my family."

"I felt so happy the moment I realized that I had received my first transfer. I remember it was very early in the morning when I checked my phone and to my surprise, there was a new message indicating that I had received money from GiveDirectly. I had never received such an amount of money before. I immediately inform my spouse and he was so happy to hear. We immediately budgeted on how to spend the money and the first thing that came into our minds was to buy a dairy cow. We had wished for long to have one but we couldn't due to limited resources."

"I felt so happy the moment I received my first transfer. I remember it was very early in the morning when I was checking my phone as usual, little did I know that I GiveDirectly has sent me 55000 KES. Immediately after checking the message I called my spouse who was not at home at that time and he was so happy too, My children also felt so happy because we have never received such amount of money."

"I received a message alert early in the morning. I waited for my helper at daybreak who checked and confirmed to me that it was from GiveDirectly informing me that I had finally received my first transfer. I felt happy and thanked them for their financial help."

"Before GiveDirectly came to us, I was sleeping on an old and worn-out mattress and a traditional bed which I had not been able to replace over some years due to financial constraints. However, I am now happy that when I received the first transfer, I managed to replace them by purchasing a new wooden bed and a mattress. I am now sleeping comfortably unlike before when I was using the old beddings."

"Failure to fully provide the needs of my family has been the biggest challenge in my life. Being casual labourer, earning a dollar per day means working on someone's farm the whole day. Despite this activity being tiresome, I am still forced to do it in order to get food. Hence, I feel the lack of a reliable source of income as my biggest hardship."

"My life is different from how it was in that, I was able to meet most of my goals. I have managed to buy most of the household items such as seats, cupboards, and beds which I could not have bought by now. I used to fully depend on my salary. My salary could cater to the daily basic needs although it could not be enough to buy these items at once. There are several other goals that I don't think I would attain if I only depended on my salary."

"We expect our lives to change in that we shall have been more established financially as a family. GiveDirectly's transfers has enabled me to concentrate on improving my shoe selling business since it has been able to help me meet the daily needs without necessarily having to eat into my profits. I therefore expect that in the next six months I will be getting more profits from the said business. "

"In the next six months we expect our lives to change in that we shall have improved our farming practices and increase our general household income. The dairy cows that we are buying and those that we have bought shall as well be of great help to us in increasing the level of income and improving our living standards as a family. "

"My life is different than it would have been if I never received GiveDirectly's transfers in that I started a small grocery business. I was a helpless housewife that depended heavily on my spouse. I had felt ashamed of this but I couldn't do anything to get out of the situation. I am happy that the transfers has taken away the shame and brought back my self-esteem in our society. The profits from this project have enabled me to provide for some of my family's needs. Currently, I no longer depend on my spouse to provide us with everything as I did before. I had also always lived in a house with two rooms because of our low income. Right now, I have expanded my house by adding another two-bedroom with the transfers. I am happy and peaceful since I no longer shy off when I have visitors like before."