"I am much healthier at the moment and can work to earn my own money. The transfers came in when I was really sick I had been diagnosed with inflammation in the pancreas. I had spent most of the money that I had on my medication. I was in great debt and the transfers came in handy and sorted me out. I am now healthier and grateful to GiveDirectly.I also spent the transfers to start a business dealing with household goods and food items. The business is doing very well. It meets my family's needs and has also enabled me to pay for my medication as I still go to the hospital for check-ups."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am now self-employed. I now have a business of my own and I do not have to spend the whole day sitting on the ground waiting for unpredictable and unreliable laundry jobs. I make some money everyday out of my shop."

"My is life is quite different in a positive way. I am living a better life now. Using the transfer to start second-hand clothes business was a great decision for me. I now have a regular and reliable source of income. Earlier on before receiving the transfer I used to work as a security guard and earned KES 5000 monthly. This income was barely enough for my family's needs. As of now my income from the business is much higher, I am able to meet my family's needs well and even have extra to save. At the moment also I am dreaming bigger than I used to. I see life in a more positive perspective unlike before when life was full of hopelessness and negativity."

"I was still asleep early in the morning on the day that I first received my transfers. I was woken up at around 5:00 AM by a call from a friend of mine from my youth group, who was calling to alert me to check my phone as the transfers had come in. I immediately hang up the call to check my phone. I was very happy when I saw the message. I did not even go back to sleep. I sat up for a while just to think of how I would spend the transfers. I did not tell anyone about it, and I prepared myself to go to work."

"The difference is that I currently have all those things that I had wished to have before but consistently lacked resources to buy them. I sleep in a king size bed, my children can enjoy watching their favorite TV programs in the comfort of their home and my visitors can now sit comfortably on the comfy sofas thanks to GD. This is a drastic improvement from the small bed I had with a worn out mattress, old seats with no cushions, and did not even own a TV my children were always found in my neighbors home."

"I expect in the next six months to have cultivated a bigger parcel of land and through this, I will be been able to feed my family members with ease from the doubled harvest and pay school fees for my children after selling a portion of it as well."

"I expect in the next six months to have saved money and buy building materials which I will use in the construction of my homestead. At the moment I am staying at my parent's homestead and as the saying says it comes a time when a man shall move out and start his own home. I feel the time has come to be independent and my motivation comes from the transfers I get."

"I expect in the next six months to have improved my house. I will manage this by using the income from the small business trading in livestock and that of the farm produce."

"I expect in the next six months that have completed building my kiosk. I will facilitate all this using the transfers and the savings from the table banking."

"In the next six months I want to be able to pay school fees and be able to continue with my studies uninterrupted."