"I currently do not have goals as I aspire to fulfil all the previous goals I had."

"After the enrollment process with GiveDirectly, I sometimes could not believe that I would get such an amount for free. It was around 8 am as I was still sleeping because I was not feeling well when I received two consecutive messages. I ignored them because I thought they were normal promotional messages from Safaricom. I was so excited when I woke up and realize that one of the messages was from Mpesa indicating that I had received some money. It is at that time that it dawned on me that indeed GiveDirectly never gave us a fake promise. I became so happy and I started celebrating until anyone who saw me at that time could not believe that I was the same person who had been sick."

"I am very optimistic that in the next six months I would built my own traditional house called 'Simba '.This will be necessitated from the profits I will get out of selling these goats and buy building materials that are needed for the project."

"The moment I received the money, I felt very excited because I was too broke before this money arrived."

"First and foremost I received this transfer at 2 am in the morning and I did not realize like money was sent to my phone. When I woke in the course of the night and checked the phone and money was in my phone I became so happy at the highest level. I woke up my wife from sleep and I informed her that Give Directly has sent us money and I told her to keep calm until its morning such that we can plan on how to spend the transfer."

"I spent my transfers to pay school fees for my children, to open up a shoe business for my husband and to do some shopping for food and household goods in my house. I wash clothes for a living, while my husband depends on construction jobs to provide for our family. We were not always struggling like this, we owned a retail shop in village 2 here in Mathare until the year 2017 in December, when our shop burned down. We used to stock commodities such as sugar, cooking oil, flour etc. A fire struck the area that the shop was located and we lost everything. Since that time we have struggled a lot to make ends meet. We depend on jobs that can be hard to come-by and most times we do not even get these jobs. I gave my husband 5000 KES to begin a shoe business that is so far doing so well. We can never lack meals from this business. He buys these shoes from Gikomba market and resells them here in Mathare."

"My life is different in that, I have been relieved from the debt burden that I had and have got back my acre of land to was taken by the money lender who gave me money for treating my late husband and the burial expenses, I have also completed the house that my late husband started to build, I couldn't have achieved all these had I not received money from Give Directly."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I added the transfers to my savings, which brings me close and close to opening my own printing business. I will not have to worry about money to add to my savings to achieve my business goals for a while."

"The moment I received the money, I felt very happy. In fact due to the over excitement, I ululated as I ran around my house several times while praising the Lord. This is because, previously I was overwhelmed with problems that needed the money."

"Speaking the truth my brother I have been going through hard times with my mother since our dad died when I was at the age of 5 and I don't have any job to earn income. The change I have realized in my daily life is that, I have managed to complete the construction of my house. I have also bought a bicycle for fetching water which has been a big challenge for me at home. If there was a way this donor could come down to my place I would slaughter for him a bull because in this world I have never seen a person distributing money to the people he/she doesn't know or met."