"My goal is to buy more goats this year so that I can venture into livestock keeping. Livestock keeping is a feasible venture and I always envy my husband who has eight goats. I am hopeful that when I begin the project, it will be beneficial to me post the end of the transfer period. In addition, I also target to be spending a portion to pay school fees for my school-going children. Seeing them succeed in their academic pursuit will be my delight."

"The main challenge we are facing is hunger, we don't have enough food at home. Food deficit is mainly caused by the fact that we don't have land for agriculture. In order to get some food stuffs such as beans, cassava and sweet potatoes, we have to go to cultivate for others. Sometimes my kid go at school with an empty stomach and when I have not yet paid lunch for him school it becomes a big issue for us."

"Paying for our insurance is very hard for our family, we have a big family of 7 people and to get money to pay for it is very challenging and up to now one of our family member doesn't have an insurance. Our house is very small and it rains inside and we can't sit in the living room when it happens. Our land is very small and to be able to provide for our family we have to rent a land and that makes us do casual labour daily to be able to get the money to pay for the rent. Being able to access enough fertilisers is very expensive. We buy as little as possible to use, and we can't afford to put it in the whole land at once to help us have enough harvest."

"Because I do not have any alternative sources of funds to support my children's education, my goal with this year's transfer is to build my savings. I aim to be spending those savings on paying school fees so that they do not miss any classes. Their success in academics will be my pride as a mother because, through that, they will be able to later on be responsible people without having to rely on external support. In addition, I shall also be buying a few hens in order to run a small-scale poultry project."

"I still believe there is much to be done to improve my poultry farming, even though it appears to be performing well. So long as I keep getting my monthly transfers, my main objective is to concentrate on growing my poultry farming. I aim to raise additional fowls, which I will then sell to acquire goats. The fact that we have come this far has encouraged me since I never thought I could get do poultry farming. I also aim to start a shop business and raise money from it as well. Giving my family financial support for their education and nutrition needs will not be a burden anymore with a shop and other streams of income."

"In my opinion, what Give Directly does so well is that they give out unconditional transfers, different people have different needs and therefore it would be of no importance if the transfers had any restrictions on the spending patterns. The transfers are given in lump sum amounts and this helps in planning purposes in terms of the developments that we would wish to engage in at a personal level. Unlike other projects where it is given in small amounts. To avoid household conflict, what needs to be done differently is enrolling all the individuals in the household. During enrollment, those individuals who did not have responsibilities by then were left out of the program yet these are the same people who steal from their old and vulnerable parents. Another thing that needs to be done differently is enrolling all the communities in a specific village for uniformity purposes and this will prevent too many complaints coming from the communities that are left out during the registration to the programs"

"My financial advancement is the direct result of the transfers I received from GiveDirectly. Without these kinds of support, I am not sure how my life would have turned out. I greatly appreciate it. You have significantly improved my life and offered me a great deal of joy."

"My primary goal is to save for my college education. It will help open job opportunities for me so that I can be a self-reliant lady in the future. I carefully considered this goal since my mother is a peasant farmer and my father is a retired teacher. They are not able to adequately support the family by meeting its endless needs. Secondly, I would wish to boost the poultry farming that my mother and I initiated last year. Currently, we have 30 fowls though we aim to raise more."

"I am a parent of three boys who are still in Primary school, they are in classes two, four and five. Before the GiveDirectly transfers, I never had any stable source of income and providing for my family had been the most difficult task I have ever faced. I used part of the transfers of kshs 30,000 to build an extension to my house as the one I had was small in size and could not accommodate our farm produce. Before the transfers, thieves could take advantage of this and most of the farm produce was stolen during the night as I could hide them behind our main house. I used the rest of the transfers of kshs 20,000 to buy more stock for my business of second-hand clothes. While the rest of the transfers of kshs 3,150 catered for basic needs like food and clothing. I thank GiveDirectly for the transfers."

"I have no cow to produce compost to fertlise my land in order to get enough food, I am living alone , I have no child to support me, and my husband left before Genocide. In order to get money, I work for government in cleaning the road for $15 per month."