"Unemployment is the biggest challenge that I have ever faced in my life. I have no source of a stable income that I can depend on. Currently, I depend on charcoal burning business which is illegal, but because it is the only job opportunity I have, I have no otherwise but to do it. Again, this business earns me less that $6 a day which is not enough to meet the needs of my family. Having a family of four children who depend on me has never been easy to meet their basic needs, considering two of them are attending school. My wife also is jobless, so I am the sole breadwinner for the family. I will be glad to receive cash transfers from GiveDirectly so that my life can change."

"My biggest concern was to build a decent house for my family, the one that we were living in before was small, therefore when I got the confirmation message from the mpesa that I had received the transfer, I knew that this was the opportunity for me to change my living standard, therefore, I used 300 dollars to build a decent spacious house, I then used 150 dollars to buy a dairy cow for us to get enough milk for our child, The remaining amount I bought a mattress and foodstuffs."

"Receiving this money means a reliable source of income for my household. I am planning to spend $300 transfer to buy 10 goats which will act as long term investment project to my family. I will sell the goats at a profit when they multiple. I will use the remaining amount of my first transfer to pay school fees for my children at school. With my second transfer I will spend $250 my to construct a separate house for to restore to respect that I have lost for long. The remaining amount will cater for household needs like food."

"Hunger has been a big challenge in my family. This is mainly caused by insufficient finances .I work as an house help at chepalungu where I earn KES 4000 per month. I distribute this money into several activities such as fee payment ,food and clothing in my family. Sometimes I sacrifice most of the income for fees and thus we sleep on one meal a day."

"Food shortage and hunger have been the biggest hardship I faced in life. I rely on casual jobs to feed my family and what I earn is not enough for us. We at times eat less preferred food like tea and sweet potatoes for lunch or supper."

"When I receive this money I will buy a cow with KES 25000, also I will budget KES 40000 to construct a two roomed iron sheet house for my children. I will clear school fees arears of KES 20000 of my son in secondary school to enable him study without disturbance of being sent to collect fee balances. For the remaining KES 15000 I will buy food and clothing's for family members."

"Receiving this money means adding capital to my business. I am currently running a book shop business and I started with a Capital of Ksh.20000. The market is big such that I cannot satisfy my clients fully with the stock I have. I want to add a stock of Ksh.55000 so as to satisfy my clients. I will use the remaining amount to start an Mpesa business at the book shop. This will add my income to approximately Ksh. 5000 every month."

"The biggest hardship I have ever faced in my life is food insecurity. I am a housewife and rely on my husband who does a security job. The money he gets is so little and can't sustain the family needs. Due to this, I have been struggling to put food on the table. Sometimes the children go to school without proper meal's or without food completely hence I feel so bad and can't do anything about it."

"In my opinion GiveDirectly does well by giving money to the poor in the community to build better houses and to buy dairy cows. I do not find anything that GiveDirectly did not do well."

"In my opinion GiveDirectly does well by giving money to the poor in the community to build better houses and to buy dairy cows. I do not find anything that GiveDirectly did not do well."