"Iron sheets, business and fertlizer"

"I used the money to buy land for my child as i did not have any land that my child would use when her time to build came. I also bought a bicycle so that my movement becomes easy when I want to travel to the boma. I used the change to buy food for my home."

"I now am able to make my own money. I have a business due to the money I recieved. I am very greatful"

"For the last six years, I haven't been able to engage in farming. One of my leg is athritic thus completely weakening my leg muscles. I had gotten used to farming my I hacter peace of land on my own but nowadays I have to employ people to work on my farm. I rarely sleep at night due to intense pains and I can not afford the recommended pain killers. This is the biggest hardship I face"

"My biggest hardship is the lack of a reliable source of income. I am a housewife who depends on my husband who works as a casual laborer. In a day he makes 200 shillings and this is not guaranteed. This has made him fail to sustain all our needs."

"My dream has been to be an ECDE (early childhood development education) teacher, but due to financial instability, this dream has never come to pass. I joined college back in 2014 to pursue a proficiency course after finishing it, I proceeded to certificate in ECDE which I did for only 1 term and later drop up because I could no longer pay my school fees. Receiving this transfer means fulling my desire. I am planning to spend 50,000 shillings to clear all the fees to balance so that I complete my cause. I believe that I will be employed permanently with the county government and this is going to generate income for my family because I will use my salary to support them. Other than that, I will spend the extra amount to clear fee arrears for my 2 steps children who are in form four."

"Receiving this money will mean a lot to me because I have been struggling in paying school fees for my children. My wish is to be a successful business woman and be able to get enough income to sustain my family's needs. I recently opened a small shop that am hoping to maintain. When I receive my transfer I will expand the shop, pay school fees for my 4 children in school. Two of them are in the university while two in secondary school. My husbands salary alone can not pay for all the expenses since he only earns 15,000 shillings in a month."

"Having a separate house is what I have desired for a long time since as a polygamous family, I share a house with my co-wife and this does not give me the privacy I deserve. With the transfer from GiveDirectly, I plan to use a better portion ($400) of my first transfer to construct a 2 roomed iron-roofed house for myself. This will guarantee me the happiness of living in a separate house and also giving me the opportunity of welcoming my visitors whom I have canceled their appointments. On the other hand, I also plan to spend the second transfer to buy 3 cows (1 bull plus 2 indigenous dairy cows). These will help me to have a source of income when they breed since I will be selling the milk to my neighbors. Hence, a transformed life."

"This money means a lot of good things to to us. The priority being enough food and making sure the house is plastered and the floor cemented. We also have ambitions to start a business of selling Zitenje as this is a profitable business in the harvesting period. The children will also have a new set of clothes each."

"The biggest hardship we always face is shortage of food. There is always hunger such that we eat once per day or sometimes go several days without food."