"i used to have no food at home, in order to find food for my family i used to go to peoples farms to work . this really affected the production and yields at my farms because i had very little time to work in my farm. when i received my money i bought food for my family and am spending all the time at my farms hence am hopeful that the yields will improve."

"when i received my money i bought fertilizer, food, blanket and mattress. i bought these things because this is a life time opportunity and i had to buy things that i could not afford to buy in the past."

"i was very happy when i received my transfer because i knew the money will reduce the problems i have been facing in my life."

"I am so happy since my life is no loner the same like last year i was struggling to buy fertilizer but with the funds i have bought fertilizer and this is a relief and i am no longer worried and i am now stress free"

"on top of buying enough food for my family i have also used the funds from GD to buy a good mattress and i am now able to sleep comfortably at night and i am so grateful"

"I have bought iron sheets since my house was leaking during the rainy season and i do not want to face the same problem this year this is why i have decided to but the iron sheets so that we will be able to sleep comfortably at night when it is raining"

"In the year 2016, I was kicked out of our home by my parents. I decided to go to Kericho to seek employment so as to get some income to raise my 2 children. I was employed as a house maid in Ainamoi, Kericho County. The house maid job became to hard for me and I decided to come back home where I borrowed a house from my uncle and this is where I called it temporary home."

"It was early in the morning and I was just from waking up. I decided to check my phone and to my surprise, I saw the Mpesa SMS on my phone saying that I had received my first transfer of 55000/= from GiveDirectly. I was extremely excited about this and I immediately called my husband who was away to inform him of the good news. He was so happy to hear this. He told me to go and withdraw the money and keep it safe so that we can come and plan together on how we were going to spend it. I thanked God and GiveDirectly for what they had done to us."

"The transfer from GiveDirectly has helped me a lot. I used the transfer to buy a motorbike for my business. I used to do the motorbike business of moving people from one place to another but I had stopped for a while and gave the motorbike that I had at the time to someone else. The person has been using the motorbike in transporting his goods for selling from one place to another. When I gave out the motorbike, I decided to open a barbershop which I have been operating since then. When I was enrolled in the GiveDirectly program and I was told that I will receive the lump-sum transfer, I planned and decided that I will use it to buy a new motorbike. The reason why I decided to go back to the business is that there are a lot of customers in the business. The money from GiveDirectly was however not going to be enough for me to buy a brand new motorbike. I hence decided to sell the old motorbike that I had, to the person who has been using it. I added the money that I got from the sale to the one that I received from GiveDirectly and it hence became enough. I then left the barbershop business to someone else for him to run it."

"I spent part of my first transfer on buying some building poles, iron sheets, threads, and nails. This was for the construction of a new house since the previous one was in poor condition. on labor to the construction workers who built my house. Later on, I cleared school fees arrears for my children who both in primary and secondary school. I am also planning to buy a dairy cow since I have been dreaming of owning it for so long. With the remaining amount of money, I am using it to buy enough foodstuffs for my family."