"All my life I have been a farmer, it's the only job I do well. I would like to add more livestock to my current one, add the chicken so that I generate more income and save more for rainy days."

"I would love to expand my business and more stock to the business. If the business continues to nourish, within three months I can be able to accomplish this."

"Before the transfer, I had a grocery shop where I sold vegetables such as pigweed, tomatoes, onions, and okra. Right now, I am at home taking care of my grandchild. My daughter has a son and when she was called for a job in the city she opted to leave her son behind until she can be able to settle down. I have eight children, two are in school, and six are over the age of eighteen. One child is in primary school and the other one is in high school. The one in high school pays $60 a term which has been a challenge and over the years I had accumulated $220 in debt. GiveDirectly money has enabled me to pay off the debts and even paid some $100 in advance for two terms. The rest of the transfer was spent on food. I can now concentrate on just paying school fees for my other children without straining myself."

"I am a farmer. I cultivate crops such as maize, pigweed, and spinach. But with current drought we are facing, I can no longer farm due to shortage of water. I ventured into other business selling timber which gives me a profit of $20 a week. This money is spent on food for my family. I have seven children, all attending school. My husband sells traditional medicine and the income he gets from his business is spent on paying school fees. The money we generate is not enough to take care of all our needs, and sometimes, we accumulate a lot of debt from school fees to food. With this transfer, I was able to pay all the debts which were $170, bought clothes for myself and the children that cost $30, and bought food with the rest of the money."

"Give Directly has changed people's lives in this village. It has eradicated poverty. It has helped people to build iron sheets-roofed houses. The whole village is happy about Give Directly. You have transfers to every house hold other than per compound. This was great since it avoided conflicts that could have arised among different house holds that live in the same compound. May you continue helping other needy people every where you go. I don't see any where that you should improve."

"I want to continue educating my six children until they finish school. I will be able to achieve this by saving little by little from my daily income. I would also request GiveDirectly for an additional transfer since I still have a long way to go with my family. An additional transfer will give me a big boost."

"I have a totally different plan from what I had planned before. I am planning to but at least buy twenty more bulls, then fifty then more going onwards depending on how I will get money. This has been my dream and by saving sparingly, I believe I am going to make it in this new business venture."

"I am a mother of 6. I am a farmer of maize, vegetables and cassava. My husband works in a workshop. 2 garls and 4boys. I spent my first transfer on buying a 5000ltrs water tank which costed kes. 35000, I bought 3 garters at kes. 4500, bend at kes. 400, dropper, bags of cement, and paid the plumber kers 5000 to fix it. In total buying and fixing this tank coated me kes. 50000. With the second transfer, I paid kes. 24000 school fees for my daughter who is college studying salon, bought 18 bags of cement at keas. 630 each to make floor, to do plastering and the remaining amount I spent on buying cook ware, plates, food and other house hold goods. I am a mother of six,two girls and four boys, a maize, vegetables and cassava farmer. My husband works in a workshop."

"Give-directly do well by giving me money to start building my house. Give-directly could do better by giving all of the poorest villages money also.They at times passed by other towns that are also in need of money and give other towns."

""Since my husband got injured from his job, he's not able to go back to work again. Therefore the family burdens had been very heavy on my shoulder. This is the reason I am planning to start a business that will serve as source of income for my family. Because even the farming work had been very challenging for me. Hopefully in the coming year, my family will not had to go through the hard time we are presently in because I am optimistic that this decision will help my family to become financially dependent.""