"My life will improve after purchasing a motorbike for transportation business. This is because the profits will enable me to provide basic needs like treatment, food and more so paying school fees for my children. Currently, I'm still depending on casual labour to meet some of the needs in my family."

"Upon receiving my money from GiveDirectly, I was overwhelmed my joy and thank God for this gift of cash because I was very sure that I would plaster my house and pay children's school fees."

"We have a house back in the village where we stay when we visit especially during the holidays. Since we do not spend most of our time there, we never invested in most of the household items such as seats due to low income and more critical responsibilities. This would force us to borrow such items whenever we visited, which was not quite pleasant, so recently, I was able to save from my transfers and bought a set of sofa for the house which would not have been possible without the transfers."

"The biggest difference in my life is to see that I am living a healthy life now as I can afford to get the treatment and drugs that I need to continue with my dosage. Before getting this money, I was always worried on how I would raise money to pay off that debt and continue with the treatment. I am really happy that I got this money."

"The moment I received my money, I felt so happy that I was taking my house to another level after renovating it. It had taken me seven years my house without windows and very rough."

"My life has changed in a way that, I have bought construction materials that I intend to use for building my children's house. In addition, I am to settle the debt that I currently have which will enable me repossess my piece of land that is in the possession of the money lender. Previously I didn't have enough money to settle the debt and buy construction materials much as I needed to build a separate house for my children."

"I expect to have finished buying iron sheets and the construction of my new house will have commenced. This will bring joy in me as I have longed to move out of my father-in-law's compound."

"The moment I received money from GiveDirectly, I felt very happy because I had hopes of building a permanent house and purchasing Livestock (cow)."

"In the next six months I expect my life to change in that I shall have bought the dairy cow and be able to engage in improved farming practices. The dairy cow shall definitely bring an end to the money being spent on buying milk and enable us to make other meaningful family investments that will bring about a rise in the living standards of our family."

"I felt so good when I received my transfer from GiveDirectly. That day,my daughter had just called me to request for money for payment of her school fees and I just told her that I never had any money then. The same day that night I got a message that I received a sum of KES 55000 from GiveDirectly. I felt so happy that God had come through for us. I did not know what to do. I stood there standstill for sometime as I tried to internalize that I had really received the sum. It was until the next day that I finally called my daughter who was equally happy to receive the news."