"I saw the message notification in the morning as I was planning on what I would accomplish during that day, and upon reading it, I confirmed that I had received such a large sum of money for the first time in my life. At that instant, I was overwhelmed with happiness and my heart was filled with peace and freedom from the troubles that I had gone through. I felt thankful to God and to GiveDirectly."

"The moment I received my transfer I was very happy and relieved. I knew that finally, I was going to build a better house and even put up a small kitchen."

"I have experienced a great change compared to my previous life. I now posses so many things which I never expected in my life. My children can now go to school without any hindrance, I have cultivated my two acres of land and have already planted sugarcane, out it I will be a rich man out of my farm production."

"GD has enabled us materialize the dream of building a better house, something that could still be a dream. We could still be struggling to begin the construction because the laden of paying school fees for my three children who are at secondary school could have been a challenge to us. Hence, GD's financial boost has indeed changed my life by easing the financial constraints that I had."

"Since I received money from GD my life has changed because I can manage to get all my meals daily which in the past was unheard of. I also have a big house which is comfortable as compared to the one I was formerly living in. I also have a dairy cow which provides me with milk for consumption and for sale."

"I have been able to expand my agriculture business, I plant vegetables and I used to plant with seeds of poor quality, but that has changed since now I can plant tomatoes and vegetables of good quality and my agriculture business is now expanding. I see my life progressing in a way I never thought would happen and I will always be grateful to GiveDirectly for coming to our village, and if possible please come back so as to help us and other people that have not received this money."

"I am a single mother of four sons and in a long time, I have had the dream of buying my own land. When I received the first transfer I decided to keep them as I waited for the second transfer as a top up to enable me to buy the size of land that I wanted. The second transfers came in time and I topped up and bought two points of land at KES 80,000 in a nearby village. I must say this was one of the biggest milestones in my life,for one i was now feeling safer since the place I was living in was quite insecure coupled by several break-ins whenever i was away since it was quite deserted and adjacent to a river .The transfers also helped me get medication, I had suffered from chronic brucellosis for over 6 months,i was weak and could not work well."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I no longer wake up very early in the morning to do odd jobs in people's farms which could pay less money for more hours but instead I get my own money from ploughing people's farms. I am my own boss nowadays, thanks to GiveDirectly."

"I am just a house wife and my husband is a casual laborer who does manual jobs, it has been a real struggle to provide basic needs for my family. My life is now different as I now own livestock which I never did, this brightens the future of my children as I am hoping the project will grow. This will help us have a sustainable income to provide the best education for them. We also have enough food so I will no longer sacrifice to skip some meals for the sake of my babies."

"I can say my life is better since I got the transfers. I have been able to buy some cattle and am now occupied or working as I look after them. I am grateful too since i will be able to start a business of my own and be able to take my childen to school with much ease as i also rebuild my house which is in really bad shape."