"Receiving this money means that we shall afford to purchase a dairy cow that will provide us with milk mainly for consumption. Since milk is one of our staple and volatile food items, we have been spending almost 0.3 USD daily on buying them. This is relatively costly to us because I am currently earning a small amount since I am not yet employed permanently. Also, we shall build a kitchen because currently we have a three-roomed house where one of the rooms serves as the kitchen. Since we use firewood as fuel, our house is usually filled with smoke and soot."

"As a family, the biggest hardship we have faced is the lack of white-collar jobs despite the acquisition of valuable skills and knowledge. My husband is a trained teacher, yet I am a professional social worker. Unfortunately, we have never managed to secure any formal employment, something that has made us lead a relatively substandard lifestyle."

"I have been struggling with my family since I lost my husband and due to my age I cannot do much that will help us get food for us. My daughter had to stay at home due to lack of money to pay her school fees."

"We started building our home where my husband recently bought since we used to stay at his matrimonial home, it's a new home and we haven't finished and it's my disire that we finish it earlier so that we can start investing in dairy farming which we have always admired to do. My husband is a casual laborer who depends in selling goats in the market we end using all what he gets for food and pay school fees for my children. I plan to spend 500 dollars to complete my house and spend the rest to start a dairy farming."

"I am aged, sickly and not able to fully practice subsistence farming. I am only left with one cow since I sold others to educate my children. My son completed grade 12 in the year 2018 and has not been able to continue with his education because of lack of funds. This has been my biggest hardship.As a parent , I feel irresponsible for he has not pursued hid dream course."

"From the year 2003 to the year 2013, I had been struggling to make ends meet in my life, engaging in all sorts of casual jobs and farming. I had just finished my college and I already had my three children thus giving them education, food or clothing was stressful since I had no income. To me lack of job from the year 2003 to 2013 was the biggest hardship I have ever faced in my life."

"When I received my transfer, I spent around KES 35000 to build a more spacious house for my family. I settled on this since the one we had was small and could not accomodate us comfortably. This was after I had bought five three-seater seats and it could not even fit into my living room. Also, I spent KES 13000 to purchase three goats. These are investments to me that I can rely on in case of financial challanges as I can easily convert them to cash. I spent the remaining amount on food and some household necessities."

"In my own opinion, GiveDirectly does well by helping everyone equally without any discrimination, are not corrupt and are transparent in their operations. I do not see anything that they do not do well."

"My intentions now is to renovate our house and buy a plastic water tank (Kentank) to help us harvest rain water and avoid perennial water shortages. I will therefore budget $150 for renovation and $200 to buy Kentank. I will also buy a dairy cow with $300 as it will enable tap income through sell of milk. My husband has Kiosk and I will give him $200 to buy more stock to the enterprise, the remaining $150 I will use to buy clothing and food for my family."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is lack of money to meet my family's basic needs such as proper healthcare, School fee's and foodstuffs. Since I depend only in buying and selling of livestock, when COVID-19 cases ware reported and livestock auction was stopped, life has been hard for me, getting daily meals has been a bigger challenge."