"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is lack of food.. We struggle to have enough food because we do not haverst a lot due to farming without fertilizer."

"The biggest hardships that I face are lack of a proper house and lack of food. Another challenge that I face is lack of a proper place to sleep. As I am planning to build a house, I will also make sure that I will buy a matress so that I can a good place to sleep on."

"I had acquired a plot near our market centre some years ago. My desire has been to construct rental shops whenever I get enough money. After receiving my money, I spent it to purchase building materials, which include 3 lorries of building stones at $270 each, cement and sand. After purchasing the materials, I had additional cash which I had saved I used it to construct 4 business rooms. My plan is to rent them out and I will be able to earn $15 per month for each room."

"I spent part of my second transfer on buying livestock more so a dairy cow at kes 15000 and goats at KES 4000. I also cleared school fees for my son who is in boarding school at KES 8000 and KES 2000 for those in primary schools. Also, I saved KES 25000 for my son who will soon transition to secondary school in August. With the remember amount I bought foodstuffs for my family."

"I spent a huge fraction of my second transfer on my medication. I was diagnosed with diabetes I have been on drugs all along. I always utilize KES 3000 monthly on drugs and sometimes I couldn't afford it and sometimes I could beg from well wishers. Therefore I had to purchase lots of them that would sustain me for months without straining. With the reming amount of money, I purchased a varieties of foodstuffs for my family."

"In my opinion, GiveDirectly did a perfect job in my entire village I can't even afford to complain. The money was sent equally without discriminating against anyone in terms of gender, tribe, or even religion. Also, we were well informed about the online conmen so we were expected to be vigilant. This really helped most of us leading to fewer cases of theft."

"Receiving this money means alot to me because I will be able to buy food for my family and I will also be able to start a small business that will be able to support my family"

"Receiving this money means alot to me because I will be able to build another house and buy househild essentials and I will be able to start up a small business that could help me take care of my family"

"The biggest hardship I have experienced is expensive fertilizer which affects my farming because I am not able to buy enough fertilizer or afford it all together."

"The biggest harship has been not having enough money to buy the few necessary essentials like body lotion. It is also expensive to buy fertilizer a bag of fertilizer is not K30,000 and we end up buying small buckets of fertilizer which are 5L which is not enough."