"Having a comfortable accommodation wi be the meaning of receiving this money. I will build a two roomed iron roofed house that I will stay in with my young children. Being a widow, it is very difficult and expensive to buy grass every year to renovate avgrass thatched house, an iron roofed house is the only solution."

"The moment I received the transfer, I felt very happy. This was my first time to receive such an enormous amount of money."

"Sleeping in an iron roofed house is what receiving this money means to me. That will improve on my living conditions as opposed to the grass thatched house that I sleep in now. It has a leaky roof coupled with grass which is now scarce and difficult to find. I will be relieved from the burden of looking for it for long distances and meeting high costs of collecting it."

"It was around 3 am when I heard my phone vibrating. Since I am illiterate my spouse's assistance came in handy as he took the initiative of confirming to me what the notification was all about. When he checked, he realized it was an Mpesa message from GD. They had sent the money as they had promised during the enrollment. I was over-excited and all I could is to laugh on top of my voice."

"Receiving this money means that I will be able to buy and store some produce for the family. I will be selling some in future to raise money for providing other basic needs. Also some of the produce can be eaten as food hence there may be no more famine in family."

"In the next six months, I have plans for saving some money so that I can purchase more goats for rearing. Since goats are cheap and easy to maintain, I prefer them. In addition to that, they give birth twice a year thus by the end of the year I'll have additional goats."

"I am expecting that my life will have changed in the next six months in that I will have bought enough seats for my family. I am also hopeful that I will have started a poultry keeping project. This project will be helping me in terms of a financial crisis."

"In the next six months, I am very sure that I will have bought a cow, a dairy one for this case. I hope that in so doing, I will have installed an investment that will go a long way in changing and adding value to me and my family's life since it will be producing milk both for domestic and commercial use."

"The moment I received the money I felt so happy. My phone was off during the night and when I switched on my phone in the morning that is when I received a message from GiveDirectly and I did not believe my eyes. I called my children to confirm for me the message and it was truly money from GiveDirectly. All my family members were so happy that day because we knew all our plans will be accomplished."

"The moment I received my money I felt so happy because I have never received such amount of money Before. I knew I would be able to buy land for farming."