"The biggest thing I want to do this year is get a motorcycle and start a taxi service. Being without a permanent job for the past five months has made life in the village difficult. I work a variety of part-time jobs, including digging pit latrines, burning wood, and selling charcoal. I also build mud houses. Due to the poor economy in the village, these jobs are very difficult to come by. By purchasing the motorcycle, I will become self-employed and generate income to support my family. The purchase of livestock is one of my other objectives. I'll sell them once they've multiplied and use the money from the sale to buy a dairy cow. By offering the milk for sale at the market, I'll profit from the cow."

"My short term goal is of course to increase the amount of land I have. If I can do that, it will mean I would have enough maize to sell and for my own sustainability and that would greatly help my day to day living as well as financially."

"The days I received my transfers were by far my happiest. These funds from GiveDirectly allowed me to construct a 2 bedroom house for me and my family. Further more, I bought 2 male cows and 7 goats, as a source of potential income when they breed. I have a wife and 4 kids, my eldest is in Grade 3, second in Grade 1, third born is 3.5 years and my last is 1.5 years old. The two eldest who are in Migunjini Primary were paid for their school fees of KES. 3,000 per term, from the same funds sent by GiveDirectly. My primary source of income is selling charcoal at Mombasa town market, making a profit of KES. 1,000 , after selling each sack at KES. 1,200. With return such as those, it would have been difficult to achieve all we did without the GiveDirectly funds. We are truly thankful as a household."

"GiveDirectly biggest strength is that they impact the lives of recipients in ways that they could not have been able to do as themselves. I would wish and pray that GiveDirectly will continue to bless recipients and help them achieve their dreams."

"The only thing I feel GiveDirectly can do better is increasing the number of transfers that recipients get. A few more transfers from GiveDirectly, would allow me, and other recipient's, to fully plan and invest towards making sure we are financially stable and have revenue streams coming in that will keep us out of the red moving forward."

"The GiveDirectly transfers were used in various different ways. Part of it went to buying food which was sustainable for us as a household and a large chunk went to building a 2 bedroom house, on my 2 acre farm that I cultivate as my form of employment, and the rest went to tuition for my kids. I have four kids, one of whom is my grandson who became orphaned, and whom I try to support as best I can. I paid KES. 20,000 each for the two kids, a boy and a girl, who are both in pwani university. the other also just cleared high school, while the eldest girl is married and living with her husband. My husband used to supplement my farming income with his salary from driving psv vehicles, he used to get paid KES 500 per day, but he is currently without one assigned to him and hence out of work. If it were not for these funds from GiveDirectly I dread to think of how we would have accomplished all we have had on our plate. We are eternally grateful to GiveDirectly."

"My immediate use for the transfers sent by GiveDirectly were first and foremost, buying a hoe and 2 cows. The hoe would assist me greatly in my casual labour endeavours where I looked for farms that need cultivating and charge KES. 2,000 a day for work on an area of an acre. This kind of work has become scarce with the drought and currently my stay at home wife and I are both not working. Part of the remaining funds I used to educate one of my grandsons. I have been blessed with two boys, of whom one has 3 kids in school. Since he was having the largest financial burden educating the lot, I took it upon myself to clear the fees debt of KES. 20,000 that one of them currently had and paying an extra KES. 15, 000 towards the next terms fees, for him as well. The remainder of the money was used to buy maize flour which I get at KES. 2,100 per bale and sell on retail at KES. 140 per pack, and this is yet another business I operate, when the capital is there, and which helps us make ends meet."

"To say that GiveDirectly transforms lives, would be an understatement. I was literally without a door in my house, nor a place to call a bed and lay my head. Thanks to GiveDirectly, the quality of life I am living now is much better than I had previously. I have nothing to ask GiveDirectly to improve on, may they continue with the programme, by sending more transfers, to help complete the transformation they have already began in recipients lives. Eg. I would love help setting up my hotel business and an injection of funds from GiveDirectly would ensure I not only begin, but complete that project in record time."

"Financial constraints is the greatest challenge currently. We are growing older and unable to work to earn a living. In order to get food, we depend on our children to buy for us and some times we are forced to sleep hungry. This makes me feel like a burden to them because they have children who depend on them. I hope one day I get money to buy livestock that I can sell to cater to the basic needs of my family without relying on other people."

"My immediate goal in the coming year or so is to graduate from tailoring school and set up my own tailoring business. This would be a crucial start for me in the journey towards financial independence and stability, as a house hold. In the long term, I would like to see my children complete school and have good jobs, which will in turn translate to better lives for them, than me and their father have had."