"In the next six months, I expect to have a better house. Once I build mine, I will no longer sleep in my brother's house. Having a house will be a great transformation in my life simply because I now have my own house. The fear of being kicked out once my brother marries is no longer a problem for me anymore. I also feel good I won't be asking for shelter from my neighbors since to me it is ashaming. In addition, I would also be having my barbershop, this is an additional source of income. The little I get from my business will help me in boosting my plastic household business. Having an additional source of income will enable me to be financially stable and supporting my younger siblings won't be a problem anymore."

"Right now, I feel my life has received new hope. I am no longer hopeless as I used to be before the transfers. This is because I never saw anything good come out of my life and I only saw trouble and struggles. I did not have a good income yet I had so many needs to cater for. I could not see a way out and I felt as if it was too much for me. Receiving these transfers changed my opinion and it changed my reasoning. Now I know if I work hard, I can change my life and solve all the struggles I have gone through."

"My life is different in that I have finally achieved my goal of having a sugarcane plantation. In my area, I have seen a lot of lives changed financially because of sugarcane they planted. I have over the last two years developed an interest in planting sugarcane. As a result of low income and limited piece of land, I have never managed to have my own sugarcane plantation. With GD transfers, I managed to lease in a piece of land which I have planted sugarcane. By the time I make the third harvest, I know my life will not be the same again. I will have grown financially and use the profits to start up a business for my family so that we should not go back to the struggles we had before."

"Now that I will not be paying rent for my grocery shop after constructing my own, I expect to be making a lot more savings than I used to do before. In the next six months, I hope that I will have set up a new business that will provide an extra income for my family which only means a better life."

"Now that I have maize from the harvests made last season, I am able to save some of the transfers which I will then use to buy the sheep that have been my dream for some time now. I hope to have a long term investment of the transfers that will grow into something bigger after the project and having the sheep will be the way to do so."

"I was woken up by a message alert. When I checked the sender, I was filled with joy as I smiled all along and kept on reading the message again and again. To me, it was a relief to the challenges that I have faced over the years. I was thankful to GiveDirectly for their financial support."

"I had woken up early in the morning to prepare my children for school. When I checked the messages on my phone, I became so happy upon realizing that I had received the promised money from GiveDirectly."

"I saw Mpesa message early in the morning and for sure it was a surprise to me because it had been long since I received money in my account. I thought it was my husband who had sent the money but when I went through it, I realized it was from GiveDirectly. I felt happy as I read the message again to my children and for sure, it was a blessing to me. I thanked GiveDirectly for their financial support."

"Building a new spacious and decent house is the biggest difference in my daily life because I was previously living in a small house that was not spacious enough to accommodate my children. Because of this, they had to seek shelter elsewhere at night. I am glad that through the financial support from GiveDirectly, I am now in the process of constructing the new spacious house to live in. The old house can comfortably accommodate my children, thus they will no longer be troubled on where to shelter."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that through this transfer, I was able to acquire a bull and three goats. To me having this livestock, is a source of wealth, and which I can I readily depend on in case of any financial crisis. I am planning to add another bull to make a pair to help me in my farming when the season for cultivation comes. With the goats, I am expecting them to reproduce and increase in number."