"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."

"Receiving this money means I will build a new kitchen and do some renovation in my other living room, I will also pay for school of my daughter who had to step down from school due tos lack of school fees. I am a widower and since my husband died who was a bread winner in the family, we have lived a miserable life of doing casual jobs in order for us to get something to eat, my age cannot allow me to do heavy jobs in my small farm. I plan to spend 400 dollars to pay for school fees, 450 dollars to build a kitchen and renovate the house and use the remaining balance for purchasing a dairy cow that will help me supplement the school fees in selling milk."

"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."

"In my opinion, GiveDirectly does well by giving people financial aid and I do not see anything that they do not do well."

"When I received my transfer, I set aside KES 20,000 that I am planning to use in paying school fees for my children when the schools reopens. I settled on this so that when they resume, they will not be sent back home. Also, I spent KES 10,000 on farming by hiring a tractor for land preparation purposes. In addition I bought an oxen worth KES 15,000. I decided on this so that I will not be hiring a tractor for tilling purposes. Using the remaining amount, I bought someo food to last my family for some time."

"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."