"The biggest hardship i have faced is financial constraints. It has been hard to pay school fees for my children as well as meet their daily basic needs due to lack of source of income. My daughter studies in the nearby polytechnic and she is always sent home for school fees. This has been a great challenge to me but with the money from give directly, i will be able to pay school fees with less difficulty."

"our household is highly motivated currently and ready to work every other time since we started receiving the transfers. I have realized that the only thing we needed was a little support and that is exactly what GiveDirectly gave us. we recetly stsrted construction of a nenw house in our household and it is our hope that in the next six months we will have completed. the construction have been a bit slow since we are sourcing the construction materials as we construct which have now been characerized by an on and off progress."

"The biggest difference in my life is that I have a new business. I opened a shop in my compound and I expect to make a profit in return. I am well known and this provides a ready market for my business. I am very happy because I will not be relying solely on burning and selling of charcoal as well as farming. I decided to do this and went against what many people have done in the village to buy livestock. We are now experiencing drought and this may force my neighbours to sell the livestock at a throwaway price and incur losses and as for me, I will be making profits."

"Living in a one-roomed house with a big family is not easy. We had no privacy, we could dress in turns at least to offer ourselves just a little privacy. This was so embarrassing. My dream for having a spacious partitioned house came to reality after receiving money from GiveDirectly. I managed to build a modern, two-roomed spacious house. What warms my heart every day is the privacy we can now enjoy and that fact that I also have a good house of my dreams makes me feel so happy. My children's life is nolonger at risk given that I sleep with them under the same roof."

"Receiving this money means a food secure home for me and my family. I will buy oxen and an ox plough which will assist me plough a larger parcel of land thus increasing my yield. It also means I will be able to provide other basic needs such as education for my children because I will buy goats which I can sell later at a higher price and use the proceeds for school fees, uniform and books."

"It was in the morning as I was going on with my daily activities when I received the money. At that instant, I became so happy since it seemed to me like GD knew that I was in dire need of help at that time. I then whispered a word of prayer to thank God for His blessings and I promised myself to give tithe as part of thanks giving."

"The difference in my life since I received my transfer from GiveDirectly is that I am often peaceful and greatly relieved from the stress of raising money to pay school fee for my children. Secondly, through GiveDirectly transfers, I managed to buy a cow and now I am counted among those who own a cow in my village. This has not only boosted my esteem, but is also a fulfillment of my long time dream since I had never owned a cow in my entire life."

"In the next six months, I expect to have doubled my income through the joint savings with my mother from the monthly payments and buy a second-hand motorcycle which I will be using to generate some income as well as means of transporting my mother to the hospital who is aged and unabled to walk on her own ."

"It was around 8 am when I received my transfers. At that instant, I became so happy and since I was not at home, I decided to leave my brother's house on that same day and headed directly home so that my husband and I could plan on how to use them. Since I was extremely happy, I called my spouse while on my way to inform him about the good news since I could not wait any longer before breaking the news to him."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have started a Mpesa business. The income from the business will support me in paying school fees for my daughter in secondary school and also to expand the poultry project that I will have started."