"Receiving this money means better housing for my family. I plan to use this money to complete the house I started building a year ago. We were forced to move in when it was incomplete because the previous one is made of iron sheet, it gets too cold at night and too hot during the day. The current one is also cold because it doesn't have windows and it's insecure. This will cost me KES 50,000. For the rest of the amount, I plan to pay school fees for my son joining university."

"I am so happy to be receiving this money from Givedirectly. I have never been enrolled in this type programme and I really look forward to the day I will receive the money. I will use the money to buy cement so that I finish up the floor of my house"

"I am really happy just knowing that I'll be receiving this money. It will enable me to build a kitchen, and that will create more room in the house for my children, because one room in the house is used as a kitchen. I'll also buy food with the money."

"Receiving this money will allow me to build a house, considering it's just me and my children, I want to have my own room in the house."

"To me, receiving this money will enable me to build my own standard house, as you can see, this is not a good house we are living in. I'll also buy a mattress to sleep comfortably on with my wife, we also need clothes, so I'll be able to buy that."

"I am a livestock farmer, mainly keeping some goats and cows. However poor rainfall makes it very difficult to have a profitable venture from simply grazing the animals on the land. The only way is to improve how to do it by having a water storage tank and a chaff cutter that will make more feeds available for livestock, mainly from crop residue such as maize stalks. But I focus on education for my children whereby, I spend all my income from a small business on paying school fees. To improve my farm, I will spend about KES 30,000 on a Chaff cutter and KES 30,000 on a plastic water tank. I expect to increase my milk production from 10 liters to about 30, bringing my income to about KES 30,000 per month. I will be able to meet my child's education needs using this and also improve my home by building a better house."

"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is food insecurity. Perennial droughts in my area renders farming insufficient as all the crops, mainly maize have been failing. We have to buy all the food items we take from my KES 300 income that I make from motorcycle taxi business . It strains me since we spend approximately KES 200 per day on food alone. If I manage to increase my income from poultry keeping, it will only be because of GD supporting me."

"The biggest challenge that I have faced in my life is not being able to afford things that I want. As young as I am, I cannot afford a lot of things such as food, a good house and even clothes."

"Not having enough food for my family has been one of my biggest challenges"

"Not having enough to support my family and I ended doing piece works just to feed my family."