"When I get the transfer I will pay my children full fees. The little farming I'm doing is not enough to pay their fees and other schooling materials, for that most often they can be put out of class and that cause them to missed some activities in school."

"My major challenges now is providing food for my family and being out of money to enlarging my cassava and other crops farm I am making to survive on. The challenge I sometimes experience is to get better prices for my goods ( fufu, , cassava and coal). When I take it to the market, I don't get more money for it."

"Some of the challenges I am experiencing here now is food. To find food daily is very difficult. Like today, the small money I earned from burning cold that it I sent my daughter in the market to buy food."

"" I plan if I am eligible to receive money, to renovate my house. The house can leak, so I want to buy zinc to change the roof. When I change my roof then I will buy my goods and make business if I will still have surplus of the money.""

"Waking up every morning with out a long term plans for my children's future in terms of money for their tuition and basic needs, are some of of my greatest challenges. I have to leave my children without any parental care at home to travel to long distances to work on people's farms. I spend most of my days worrying about their safety."

"Our major challenge in this home is the issue of finance, so hearing about Give Directly Cash transfer program today makes me happy and that's why I earlier told you that I want my spouse to engage in to business as soon as we are successful to receive out transfer."

"I have desired to own a motorbike that will engage in the taxi driving to earn a living for the family. In addition, to help us in fetching water, at the moment I am forced to walk 4 hours to get this important resource. We decided to contribute KES 25000 each with my son for the purchase of a brand new motorbike on hire purchase. The taxi business is earn me an Income of KES 1600 per week, this money is enough to cater to the needs of my family like food. Previously, I was depending on charcoal burning which is laborious and has a lot of health problems. In addition, I bought proper clothing for everyone in the family because I was embarrassed see my children wearing worn out clothes. I utilized the remaining amount to acquire building materials like poles and timbers for KES 9000 they were for the construction of a new house because the one I own was collapsing."

"If I'm successfully enrolled in to Give Directly Cash transfer program and received money, I'm going to used the money to help my spouse in paying our children school fees and also used some to make business as that will help in settling some of our financial problems as a family."

"I was so excited to confirm the receipt of the first transfer, this brought forth the hope of clearing all the debts that had been piling for quite some time. On the enrollment period, it really sounded like a dream to be but it finally came true when I finally received it. It was all celebration as we had really anticipated the arrival of the transfer, and every other household member was also grateful for the kind aid we had received."

"Spending a lot of money on buying milk from the neighborhood for quite some time had been straining, and even though it was slowly becoming a norm, I would always struggle to meet the cost. It is amazing how things are currently turning out after GiveDirectly came into our village, purchasing one lactating cow and a heifer changed the whole story. I have been enjoying the consumption of milk from my own animals, and even though it is not enough yet, I have great hope of producing more with time. This great change would not have been possible without the transfer, I had no clear plan of raising such an amount to obtain livestock but I am now grateful that apart from the livestock I bought, I also expanded the small kitchen I had."