"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have fenced my compound using the wire mesh that I bought. This has not only improved security in my compound but also allowed me to expand my poultry keeping project. I feel so happy that I was lucky to be one of the beneficiaries of this life-changing project."

"Since I am illiterate my son normally stays with my phone, I remember very well it was around 7 am when he told me that there is an Mpesa message from GD. I felt so much happy at that time. I found myself screaming in happiness early that morning."

"The moment I received the money I felt so happy because I have never received such amount of money before. It was very early in the morning when I received a message notification on my phone when I checked the message, it was money from GiveDirectly. I felt so happy that I could not sleep anymore All my family members were so happy. I used to buy milk and it was so costly for me and the first thing that came into my mind was to buy a dairy cow."

"The biggest hardship I face is lack of money for Educating my children. Iam poor and I have failled to provide school fees for the children on time. This as always affected thier performances since they are sent home regularly."

"Receiving this money means paying bride price to my parents. In our culture, a man I expected to pay an agreed number of cows to the girls family as a sign of appreciation to them. I conceived while at school and now staying with him in order for him to take care of the pregnancy then thereafter marry me. "

"Receiving this money means I will be able to retrive the piece of land that I leased to take care of the barrial expences of my late wife, build an iron roofed house because the one I have is grass thatched and it leaks. I also hope to buy beddings and a cow that may be sold in order to raise money that can take care of my barrial expences."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is lack of money to take care of the education needs of my children. I have children who according to me love studies but how to provide for them is a charllage. I depend on agriculture to provide school fees so the season that food does not do well affects me badly."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is lack of land for cultivation. The only piece that I was able to buy only accomodates a home compound. I have never had the chance to buy more land because I don't have money. This is the major cause of food shortage in my household. "

"My life is better because I managed to access better treatment since I have back pain problem. Secondly, soon I will be owning my a plot of land and start my own home. Before this cash transfer, I could not access better treatment and I experienced a lot of challenges in my brother's home."

"My life has improved because I have paid off the debts and repossessed my farm land which I have already cleared to cultivate cassava. Secondly, my child managed to access better treatment for typhoid in a private clinic. Previously, I had to do casual labour in order to get money for renting farm land and at the same time provide basic needs for the family like treatment which was very difficult."