"When I receive this money, I will buy 2 bulls as oxen and an ox-plough. Currently I hire ploughing services for agriculture, but with the expectation of GD transfers, I will be able to have my own. This will save us the money we have been using and channel it into catering for other basic needs like education, medical care, proper feeding and many more. I will also buy household items like utensils, beddings, furniture and clothes because apparently the ones we have are old."

"My life has changed now because I constructed an iron roofed house which has given us privacy. Previouly, we were sharing one hut with my six children. On top of that, It's roof could leak."

"My life is different now because I have my own cow, an ox which does the ploughing. I also managed to pay school fees for my children on time. Before I received the cash transfer, I could hire oxen which was expensive and I could be among the last people to plough when the rains have reduced. If I hadn't got the money, my children would have been sent home because of school fees."

"My life is better, I paid a debt which enabled me get back the land I had given to the money lender as security. I am currently cultivating in it. Another difference in my life is that I am now officially married after payment of dowery, I feel happy and we are leaving in peace. Previously, I shared farm land with my father inlaw and we got little harvest and we had no say on it. My mother also could often complain to my husband over dowery. It is a traditional requirement that a man should pay dowery for a wife."

"These cash transfers have made it possible for me to sleep in an iron roofed house and I am so grateful to GiveDirectly for that wonderful gift. Futhermore, I have owned a cow, 2 mattresses and bed sheets at once. Before receiving this transfers, I slept in an grass thatched hut that leaked whenever it rained and on very old mattress."

"My house fell before I received the transfer and the only hope I had was the GD money. It was around midnight when I woke up for a call of nature and as usual, I reached to my phone so that I could use the torch. I then saw a message notification blinking on my phone and to my surprise, it was the GD money. It was such a joyous moment. I woke up my spouse, shared the news with her and we had a short discussion and both agreed to proceed to construct a house with the money."

"I am a mother with a passion for giving my children a better future that relies on small business to raise my family needs. I have children in various schools and in college. The nature of my business is so engaging and require a lot of sacrifices to meet the goal. I take about two to three hours to get into the neighboring community land where I fetch firewood so that I can sell to earn a living. I spend almost twelve hours a day to earn a maximum of Six hundred shilling amount that is enough to sustain my family daily basic needs and children education hence I have to be there on daily basis to reduce the debts that I will incur if I don't. I am growing older and getting exhausted with my business day in day out. When I received my first transfer from GD I used part of it on my children education, household food and other daily expenditure and this has given me the biggest difference in my daily life. Even though I will go back to my business I have taken a rest since I have enough food and I have paid for my child in secondary school hence have fewer expenses to incur, I am currently relaxed with peaceful minds."

"In the next six months, I do not have an additional goal but I plan to concentrate on the goal of starting up a business. After the business has picked, I believe I'll be able to have a good income to start thinking and planning for a new goal to better my life."

"My life is different now because I live peaceful in that I managed to complete the dowry of my spouse therefore I'm so proud of it since im no longer a laughing stock in the community. Nowadays I can plough with my own oxen and farm anytime I wish unlike before whereby I could beg for people to plough for me. These transfers have greatly impacted my life positively economically, socially and physologically. Prior to getting transfers my life was so difficult whereby I solely depended on causal work to take care of my family."

"I do not expect my life to change very much in the next six months because I still want to establish my business which I started recently. I have decided to save my monthly transfers for the coming months hoping to boost my business because I know that this is what will help me to achieve my goals."