"I am proud to own a dairy cow in my homestead courtesy of GiveDirectlyt. I struggle to bring in assets that I can take pride in and lean on in case of financial needs but this had been challenging due to limited resources. My income has been too small to cater for both household daily needs and investments. I am currently keeping a cow that recently calved thus I have milk for my family consumption and sales. This has greatly changed my life in that I have added assets and I have reduced my household daily expenditure. I expect to have more offsprings which to me which I can always depend on in case of any financial crisis. To me having livestock on my farm is the biggest difference in my daily life."

"Receiving this money means a sustainable source of income. Ever since my husband died last year, I've been depending on casual jobs to fend for the family. And because they are hard to come by, oftentimes I lack money to cater for basic necessities. Therefore, when I receive the transfers, I will invest in poultry keeping, a venture that will generate adequate income for us. I will also back it up with goat rearing business as a long term investment plan. I also desire a better living condition -the house that I currently reside in is old and lacks basic household items like beddings. I, therefore, purpose to improve it using the remaining part of the transfers."

"Before the transfers, I used to depend on a small income from odd jobs in my area. They were very inconsistent since many of us in the area were fighting for the same jobs. As a result of low income, I used to struggle financially and I could not even buy myself clothes. I used to survive on debts and in most cases, would miss meals. When I started receiving my transfers from GD, I thought of a way to sustain my income long after GD transfers are over. I decided to start a poultry business which has really impacted my finances positively especially during the festive season. I sold so many over the holidays and used the money for my personal use and to boost the business. I know very soon I will have enough to sustain supplying to a hotel so that I don't have to only rely on holidays to sell."

"I expect my life to change positively in the next six months in that I shall have an established poultry keeping project that shall drive me towards being financially independent. The poultry keeping project shall open up other investment opportunities once it is established and bring about improvement in the living standards of my family as well."

"In the next six months, I expect my life to change in that I shall have my cow producing more milk and make more income. I also expect my poultry keeping project to be doing well since I have had additional chicken to keep. All these are diverse investments that are geared towards making my family to be more independent financially."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I shall have fixed an iron sheet roof and replaced the old one that had been leaking by buying building materials every month with the sent transfer. This is because at the moment the leaky old roof of my house is in a deplorable condition which has made it risky for our habitation."

"If I could not have received the money from give directly I could not have managed to pay school fee for my daughter on time and my daughter could have continue staying home while others are learning. But I thank give directly my daughter is back to school and learning comfortably. I also now sure of putting up a spacious kitchen for my children to have a comfortable place to spent their night. I will earn my privacy once I complete building the kitchen from my children."

"Since crop farming has not been doing well in this area,I have a plan of shifting focus to dairy farming when I receive the money from Give Directly. I will buy one dairy cow to add to the one that I have. The cow will cost me approximately Ksh 40,000(400 USD). I will then set aside half an acre of my land for planting grass and other animal feeds. This will automatically lead to increase in milk production translating to income boost."

"The moment I received my money I was very happy . I got a confirmatory message early in the morning and informed my spouse whom we celebrated together as a family . This is a day , I will never forget because I was certain that the money would bring forth breakthroughs."

"I received a confirmatory message early in the morning from GiveDirectly indicating my money had been sent . After reading it out aloud to my family , I was very happy since I didn't expect such a lump-sum amount at that particular time . It was a surprise which I will never forget ."