"In the next six months, I believe I will have been able to boost my business. I expect to be earning higher profits thus meeting my family needs will much easier than now."

"My husband and I never went to school and this has negatively impacted our life. There is no way we can get quality jobs and the much we can offer is casual labour. It is hard to earn enough from these jobs thus making it difficult to take care of our children. The most hurtful thing is that I cannot even raise 1400 shillings for their academics. I believe all this suffering is as a result of illiteracy which I consider my biggest hardship."

"Providing for my family is quite a challenge. This is as a result of not having a reliable source of income since I depend on charcoal burning. This earns me less than 1000 shillings a month, an amount that is supposed to cater for 6 children. In an ideal scenario is it possible to operate on such a budget? Therefore I have to overlook other needs to meet the most sensitive ones. In regard to this we don't even have beddings and we use the traditional bed that is made of sisal reeds. My children have never slept on a mattress ever since they were born. All these struggles are attributed to financial insufficiency which is my biggest hardship."

"When I bought a dairy cow. I reduced the number of menial jobs that I had been doing, working for others in order to put food on the table. Instead of toiling to get money for milk and other foodstuffs, I have started to produce the milk on my farm from the dairy cow. I also sell part of the milk and use it to buy other foodstuffs that we need as a household. Having an income is a path that has saved me. My life is better now with cattle than before. I f I had not received the money from GiveDirectly, I would still be suffering having to work for other people."

"My life is different than it would have been if I never received the transfer in that I paid school fees for my children on time and they were not sent home. This could have been so challenging for me because I depend on small scale farming at home to earn an income."

"I expect my life to have changed in the next six months in that I will have expanded my business by adding more stock and even rent a shop."

"In the next six months, I am hoping to have cleared my children's school fees. I am not able to work because I am disabled I have a leg. Most of the time my wife does everything for us. Since GD came in the picture I have been trying to use my transfers to assist as much as I can to ease the burden she carries."

"My life is different than it would have been if I never received the transfer in that I bought a dairy cow. I depend on the casual jobs in the village and there was no other way I could get the money to buy a cow."

"Having a better house, made of a timber wall is my greatest improvement. I made sure that this chance did not sleep through my hands. I quickly moved to put up the house and demolishing the small mudwalled hut. When I look at the house, I am so proud and happy that my compound is among the good looking in the village."

"I believe my life will be better in the next six months in that I will have leased a piece of land and will have put up maize farming on. This will be my hope of a better life in that all this will be my investment as well as food security in our family. I expect my cow to be in better health and will be about to calve."