"I don't have a new goal at the moment. I want to focus on ensuring that my house is complete in the next six months. I have been longing to accomplish this goal but due to lack of enough money to construct one has always forced me to stay in this delicate and life-threatening house. I am glad that the hope of finally having a decent house is will soon be achieved. I thank Give Directly for helping me achieve this goal."

"In the next six months, I expect to have saved enough money and most likely by then I'll have constructed a bigger and decent house. With the new house, I won't share the same room with my grown-up children thus I'll be guaranteed of my privacy."

"I was able to construct a kitchen using transfers I got from Give Directly. Even though I wasn't able to plaster it, I am happy I was able to build a bigger and more stable structure compared to what I had initially. I decided to smear it with clay. The clay isn't strong enough this means that the walls won't last for long. In the next six months, I expect to have saved enough money so that I can use to cement the walls and the floor. I am happy my long term goal of building a bigger house came to pass. I will be happier if I cement it because it would make it stronger and last longer."

"In the next six months of my life, I expect to have saved enough money to purchase most of the materials that I'll require to plaster my house such as cement, sand and enough money to pay the masons. I know through this, the house will be less dusty and I will have a strong and durable house."

"My life will have changed in several ways in the next six months. First, I expect that I will have bought another dairy cow after securing medical insurance. Hopefully, I will have built a larger poultry house and increase the number of chickens. This will ensure a continuous source of income through the sale of some of the Chicken eggs. Having medical insurance will make me the happiest parent since I know that my family can get medical attention whenever they get sick even when I do not have money."

"I was woken up by a message notification and on checking the content of the message, it was from GiveDirectly informing me that I had received the transfer that they had promised us. I was filled with happiness at that instant and I am always thankful to GiveDirectly for the financial assistance."

"I was woken by a message notification on my phone on a Tuesday at 12:28 am. I was curious to know who could have sent me a message at such an hour. When I went through the message, I realized that it was from GiveDirectly informing me that I had finally received my first transfer. I was greatly overjoyed especially on the thought that this transfer would enable me to improve my business for better profits."

"I hope that I will have plastered my house and living in a decent house. I will save part of my monthly transfers to buy building materials such as cement and sand which I will use to plaster my house. This has been my dream for the last two years because smearing every month is tiresome and time-consuming. I would like to focus the resources used for smearing on other family requirements. I know I will have no more stress on smearing after plastering my house."

"I saw the message notification around 7 am in the morning. On checking its contents, I realized it was an Mpesa message from GiveDirectly. I was over excited since GiveDirectly had finally sent the first transfer they had promised."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now have my own house which I never imagined I would own anytime soon. It is still unbelievable to me. Previously, my house was very small and in a very poor condition. One could not imagine there were people staying in such a house. My children and I never had peace especially during winter seasons because we could be rained on most of the time. Secondly there was no privacy in my house since the house was single roomed and very small and my family was big. But currently I have a four roomed housed which is specious enough and my children can now do their assignments without any problem unlike before where they used to do their assignments at my neighbors place which was stressing them and affecting their academic performance."