"Normally, whenever the year begins, I always tend to come up with achievable goals. Therefore, at the begining of the year, I developed two main goals. The first goal was to focus on saving part of my monthly transfer and use it to pay school fees for my daughter who is in form four. Secondly, I aim to raise more livestock. Since my enrollment in the cash transfer program, I have so far bought three goats. As they increase in number, life will become less burdensome since I will be able to meet some of the family's needs with little struggles."

"In our area, we suffer more from the drought that is ravaging the entire County. With the assurance of my monthly transfer, I have a goal of raising goats just like my neighborhood. I have witnessed many people benefiting from such ventures whenever they sell them. By choosing to venture into livestock keeping, I will find it easy to take my children to school without having to beg for support from some family members, as it had been the norm before being enrolled in GiveDirectly's program."

"With just a little business selling traditional toothbrushes, I have been struggling to feed my family. Thus, at the beginning of the year, I set the goal of starting a retail business to raise my standard of living. As my wife is unemployed, her participation in a shop will enable my family to supplement their income. Due to the existing business's low revenues, I always need to find other work to raise my level of income. I, therefore, yearn for my wife to be in charge of the business."

"At the beginning of the year, my husband and I sat down and developed a goal of strategizing on making fee payments for our children every month. It has been easy since both of us are beneficiaries. We can always spend some portion to pay fees with ease. We both look forward to seeing our lovely children advancing with their studies beyond the levels we could attain even though we experience difficulties as a result of drought and famine. I am always grateful to GiveDirectly for the cash transfers."

"Without exception, GiveDirectly's assistance has given us financial power. The elderly and the young were handled with the utmost professionalism. The enrollment process was open because they visited every home. I haven't encountered anything improper in my interactions with the personnel up to this far."

"From my perspective, GiveDirectly succeeds by visiting our community and providing aid to the most vulnerable person. Since everyone has the opportunity to choose what they want to buy per their home needs, the notion of sending the unconditional cash transfer was the best. So far, I don't see anything that needs to be adjusted."

"With the current business I have been doing, which earns me at least $3 per day and I hope I will be able to work a little harder to be able to get enough to keep adding the stock in my business.I currently sell soap and fish but due to the current adverse drought, a lot of people are unable to afford even to buy fish. I expect to save extra income from my daily proceeds in the coming year with the goal of acquiring more goats. This will not only reduce the cost that I will daily be incurring and also provide an additional source of income because I will be selling the goats to my immediate neighbors when they give birth and multiply."

"Givedirectly is helping us financially and making us self dependent"

"With the current homemade toothbrush business I have been doing in the community, which earns me at least $5 per day, I hope to keep adding the stock, even though they are currently hard to come by because most of the trees are slowly drying up due to the current adverse drought. I expect to save extra income from my daily proceeds in the coming year with the goal of acquiring a dairy cow. This will not only reduce the cost of milk but will also provide an additional source of income because I will sell the surplus milk to my immediate neighbors and make enough profit that will be able to sustain my family."

"I currently construct people's houses and get paid $10 a day after a long day of struggle at work. I did not complete my studies because of my parents inability to take me to school because they were financially unstable.The only goal I have right now is to ensure that my children are in school busy studying and graduate from school with better grades. The lives of our future leaders are in our hands and I believe when my children get good jobs in future, they will remember all the sacrifices I did for them and pay back with taking care of me and opening for me a business that I will be operating."