"It was around seven o'clock in the morning when I received two consecutive messages. Upon reading them to know its contents, I was filled with happiness as one of the messages was from Mpesa indicating that I had received the money I had been waiting from GiveDirectly. This money gave me hope that I would be able to accomplish my plan of investing in sheep."

"In the next six months, I intend to increase poultry farming activity and hire more land to grow my vegetables and tomatoes. This will increase my profits which will enable me to buy more livestock for rearing. This is some kind of investment which means I have future financial stability."

"In the next six months, I will have begun a business which will earn me some income to help me contribute to merry-go-round contribution. It is from here where I will buy iron sheets which will be used in building my new house. I will have peace of mind living in my own house as compared to currently where I am living in father-in-law's homestead."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am now happy. I have been able to enroll in a college where I am pursuing a hairdressing course. I believe that after I am through with my studies, I will have perfected the art of hairdressing and I will open my saloon. From this, I will be able to get money for my daily upkeep."

"I believe through education I will be a greater person in my society, hence in the next six months, I shall have saved enough money to enroll in college and pursue my goal of furthering my education."

"It was around seven o'clock in the morning when I was going to open my shop when I received my money. At that instant, I became so happy since I knew that through this money, I was going to expand my business. I started singing happily and I prayed silently to thank God for the blessings that I have just received."

"Being homeless for a period of two years was by far the biggest hardship that I have faced in my life.After my house collapsed due to heavy rainfall, I was forced to live with my mother in law in her one room house which was too small to fit all of us comfortably. Our privacy and freedom to interact and move around was greatly affected,I could not even invest in buying some of the household items that I desired to own because we lacked room for storage.To make it worse, anytime my husband used to return to the village from town,we were forced to go seek for accommodation elsewhere and this was very embarrassing for us."

"Receiving this money means that I will be able to educate my two elderly children up to college level.Once they are done,I believe that they will be in a better position to get better jobs to sustain themselves and also help in educating the rest of their siblings who are still in primary level. In order to achieve this,I plan to spend my transfer in reviving my charcoal selling business so that the income generated can provide me with sufficient funds to educate them."

"My life is different than it would have been if I never received the transfers in that I spent part of it on buying a second-hand motorcycle for bodaboda business. Nowadays, I do not have to ride someone's motorcycle in order to earn a commission but instead use my own thus my income has greatly increased. I also spent my first transfer to build a three-roomed house at home where my family can spend on comfortably. In the past, we did not have a house hence we were spending at our neighbor's compound."

"The biggest hardship that my family and I are facing is living in constant fear of being evicted anytime from the parcel of land that we have come to know as our own.After the death of my father in law,some unknown people just came out of nowhere and they have been insisting that the land where we live in is theirs.Being that they are many and we too don't have the legal title deeds,my family has not been able to live in peace nor engage the farms in any meaningful way to improve our lives for fear of abrupt evictions. This has really led my family to live in abject poverty."