"My expectation in the near future is to ensure that I pay all my children's school fees on time. I am hopeful that they will pass their exams and have a better future. I don't want to shatter their dreams by failing them as a parent. I am glad that Give Directly chose me as one of their beneficiaries and I am now able to pay their school fees with ease."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am now a proud owner of a dairy cow. I never thought I would one day own one. I used to admire seeing them in well off homesteads and it never crossed my mind that I would own one this soon. When it reproduces, I will be supplying milk to our local cooler plant and use the money to pay for my children's school fees. I now have hopes that my children will not drop out of school because I have the means of paying their school fees."

"In the next six months, my life will have changed in that I will have built a house for my children. They will be sleeping comfortably in their room and their privacy will be well assured. Apart from that, I will have saved enough money to lease a piece of land that I will use to plant Genetically modified plants which take a short time to mature. This will ensure food security for my family which will last us until the next harvesting season."

"The biggest difference in my daily is that I have built a better and spacious house. We used to live in a small mud house which could not host all my family members comfortably. My children used to spend their nights at their grandmother's place and this was not good because of the movements at night which posed a lot of security challenges on their side. They had no time to complete their homework because of that. I could not welcome visitors to my house because there was no space to host them. Currently, I have built a better house and my children are no longer getting stressed up on where to sleep. They have their own room where they study and do their assignment without any disturbances. This has led to an improvement in their performance in school. I no longer fear to welcome anyone to my house because I have a decent house and nice seats. I am so much grateful for the support from GiveDirectly because it has changed our standards of living."

"I felt so happy the moment I received my money.it was very was early in the morning when I heard the message from my phone and when I checked it it was a message from GiveDirectly confirming that I had just received 55000 KES. I felt so happy because I had never received such an amount of money before. My spouse and children were also very happy. I could not keep calm knowing very well that I was finally going to be able to buy a dairy cow and reduce the cost of buying milk which had been a bother to me for a long time."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have bought a motorcycle. I plan to use part of my transfers and the profits from my poultry project to buy the motorcycle. I would want to boost my income in as many ways as possible hence I plan to buy the motorcycle."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I shall have saved enough resources from the monthly transfers to renovated my house. When this actualizes I am sure I will rest from smearing it every season which could save me from being laughed at by my neighbours who have upgraded cemented houses."

"I felt so happy when I received the transfer on my phone and I thanked God. It was 3:00 am , at that time I came out of the house and I hard ululation in the whole village because every one else had received the money."

"The biggest achievement in my life is that I have bought my own oxen to facilitate agriculture. I suffered a lot before getting this money,I offered labor in other people's farms in exchange of the oxen for ploughing. In most cases, I would be offered oxen when the ploughing season is past."

"My expectation for the next six months is to settle a loan that I had taken in a table banking to build my own kitchen because I am almost done. I have a plan to obtain a bigger loan and use it to cement my house into a semi-permanent one. When this project shall have actualized I will no longer incur expenses of smearing my house on a monthly basis."