"I would love to start a business of selling vegetables here in Mariakani, where I have been employed as a cook at a food point. The goal is to set up a shed and acquire an initial stock of not less that $50 to run the business. To get there, I purpose to save at least $15 from each of the subsequent three transfers to start. In the long run, I long for the business to grow into a stable grocery shop."

"The house i now live in is small therefore, i will use my most recent transfer to extend the structure so as to be spacious enough."

"I invested some of the money on my farm so as to make it bigger as i have a child now and i am not working so i believe that once i grow my farm i will be able to sustain my kid spouse and i with that. I also spend the other portion of my transfer on buying a few clothing for myself."

"GiveDirectly is doing well by giving me free cash and allowing to spend it the way i want without interference from anyone."

"After my husband drowned in 2015, I have been faced with a lot of challenges. Currently, I'm faced with the challenge of lack of food since I'm the only breadwinner. I live with my only son, Silas, whom we have been forced to go hungry because of lack of food. The casual work I do does is not enough for me to gather for both of us. It really saddens me that my son goes hungry sometimes because I can't afford to buy food. The only chicken I was depending on for eggs, which I would sell when it gets tough was killed by a snake. This has made us to go hungry since we don't have anything to sell."

"In my family of five, I have a disabled child who is currently in first grade at a nearby elementary school. I am grateful to GiveDirectly for making it possible for me to pay his school fees with ease. Previously, I was reliant on charcoal production and sale, but since purchasing goats, I have been unable to move around in search of wood for charcoal production. Despite the fact that I am faced with the challenge of paying school fees for my son as well as food for my family of five, I hope to begin saving half of the transfer to use in purchasing more goats in the coming year. I hope to sale their offspring to pay for school in the future."

"After successfully constructing my new house through previous transfers, I now plan to focus on acquiring livestock such as goats and cows. To start with, I aim to have bought at least six goats by year-end. I intend to use the cash transfers to buy these goes. This is because my business of selling palm wine cannot raise money to afford anything beyond food."

"I plan to have started livestock farming specifically goats by the end of this year. I am balancing paying school fees for my three primary school children and doing an investment. Since I am required to pay $28 per term and a term has three months. I will be spending one month's transfer for fees and the other transfers for the rest of the months on buying the goats. I chose goat farming over cows because of the climate condition in our area. Goats can survive in harsh conditions while cows cannot cope. Again goats have ready markets because they are cheap to acquire, so I will be able to convert them into monetary value when the need arises."

"As a parent, I hope to always provide for basic needs such as food and education for my family of 4. Unfortunately, age is catching up with me and provision is almost uncertain since I depend seasonally on fetching firewood to earn a living. When I lost my 2 children 24 and 33, I did not have a choice but rather take care of the 3 grandchildren they left behind. The sight of their graves in my garden draws some tears from my eyes which depresses me alot. It pains me that I have to struggle hard to provide food for them now that the farms here are unproductive and I have to solely depend on well wishers."

"The backbone of all our problems is money. We don't have money for food and clothes. There is only one company here in the village where we can get employment opportunities. Because of that, we are supposed to pay a bribe of $30 to get work and yet they pay $2 a day so how does one raise the bribe money. Had I been educated, i would have been employed somewhere and receiving monthly income. My life would have been better off."