"In my opinion, what GiveDirectly does well in this program is that we receive the transfers in lumpsum amounts. This helps in planning as one is in a position to do something huge as compared to when the transfers are given in small instalments. Another thing that GiveDirectly does well is that the unlearned recipients are taught how to use mpesa. This has reduced the number of theft cases in the community as most of us managed to change our pins to a more secure code. What needs to be done differently is enrolling all the individuals in the household to avoid household conflict. 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."

"In the next year and beyond, am hopeful to have enough savings for my sons fees who are in college right now. I have been getting financial support from friends and relatives through having fundsraisers. Whatever I raise has never been enough for a whole terms fee. They have been in and out of the classes and this has negatively affected their studies. I am hopeful to get a long term solution by selling some of the livestock I raise for a living."

"The biggest challange I have among others is when it rains I get worried for my young children and the grand children I stay with because the flash floods are at times very heavy especially where am staying, I fear it might sweep them away, it also becomes very called which has affected the health of the little ones. The heavy floods have also affected my garden which has led to scarcity of food and poverty which has in the long run affected our income and I have failed to even pay fees for my children and also meeting other basic needs."

"I have a challange of having no source of income and as a result I have failed to pay school fees for all my children, the feeding is poor because our gardens were affected negatively by flash floods."

"I was living in a small hut with a leaky roof that let water in during the rainy season. I was relieved to receive the first transfer because I had plans to build a larger new house with a better roof. As a result, I purchased 19 iron sheets, 18 of which cost $9.5 each and the 19th, which I used to build a door, cost $7. I also purchased other building materials such as building poles for the walls, roof frames, and nails for a total of $208. I later paid the $80 labor charges. I'm currently finishing up the walls and hope to be able to move in soon. I also paid my child's primary school fees of $10 and bought him and my daughter each a pair of shoes worth $5. In addition, my daughter was sick and needed $5 worth of medication. Even though she is not completely well, I am glad the medication has helped. I later spent some of the remaining funds on food worth $50 and saved a small amount while waiting for the second transfer, which I believe will help me buy new bedding and goats."

"Lack of reliable sources of income and poor agricultural practices. We do not have better ways of generating income and because we largely depend on subsistence farming, I would say our crude agricultural practices also contribute in low yield that puts us all in constant poverty. Currently I'm hawking roasted peanuts through the villages and sometimes at Matanomanne trading center. It's somehow slow and can only generate around $3 daily. This much can only buy food."

"Lack of reliable source of income. My husband is a plumber based in Mombasa town, but he gets jobs from a lot of different places within the country. I don't know for a fact how much he makes, he normally sends me between $5 to $7 weekly. Myself I used to take up casual jobs around Matanomanne trading center, but since I delivered my forth born two months ago, I haven't been able to do so for the obvious reasons. The much I get from him isn't enough to pay all family bills and therefore right now my eldest child is out of school for fees areas. She pays $17 per academic term."

"LANDSLIDES SWEEP OUR CROPS AND THIS HAS LED TO CONSTANT LACK OF FOOD"

"LANDSLIDES HAPPEN WHENEVER IT RAINS WE ALWAYS SLEEP IN PANIC, THEY SWEEP OUR COFFEE PLANTATIONS AND THIS HAS BEEN DIFFICULT FOR US TO TAKE OUR CHILDREN TO SCHOOL DUE TO LACK OF MONEY"

"When I planted my vegetables (cabbage, onions) and the did not work out well in october. The rain was too much that it eroded away most of the fertilisers that we had put in gardens. The out put was so bad and we did not gain any profit. Also a challenge of lack of enough food as I have to struggle to get food for my three children and there grandmother. My children also do not go to school as they were sent away from school(St. Mary's primary school). There friends started exams today and they did not do the papers because I had not paid their fees."