"The most hardship Iam faced with is sickness. Iam so much disturbed with sickness and it's costly to treat. I have failed to save money for providing other neccessities in my family."

"Receiving this money means that I will be able to build iron-roofed house for better shelter.I currently do not have any house to sleep in my village. Iam always interfearing with my brothers by sleeping in their houses whenver I go to the village. I will have a home of my own to sleep as avisit the village during holidays hence less stress."

"It was around 4:00 am when I heard my phone ring. I felt anxious and a little bit scared at the same time since it was quite unusual for me to receive messages at such hours. I quickly checked to confirm the content of the message and to my amazement, I had actually received KES 55000 from GiveDirectly. I felt very happy. This meant that I was finally going to be able to achieve most of my set goals in life."

"These cash transfers have enabled me construct an iron roofed house which they have just fitted a door. Once I shift in my new house, I am going to be relieved from the burden of renovating my hut annually and its leaking roof although I am currently sleeping in it. In addition, I have got a piece of land that I can use freely without restrictions. Previously I rented land which limited the kinds of crops I could plant, I never planted crops that took a long period of time like cassava yet its a staple food in our community."

"My life has changed because through cash transfers, I managed to pay fees for my 3 children who are in secondary level on time as opposed to when they could not write examinations because I failed to pay school fees. In addition, I'm confident that soon I will be sleeping in a permanent house. I made this a decision to build this permanent house because I used to always suffer looking for grass to renovate my thatched house which could leak during rainy seasons."

"I majorly rely on farming as the main source of income but since I have a small piece of land I have always got limited production from it. Therefore, I expect in the next six months to use the coming transfers in renting an acre of land farm where I will expand my farming. With this, I will have an assuring improved produce."

"Currently, I only make people clothes but I do not have clothes materials for sewing. My customers are, therefore, forced to buy the garments in a different shop then bring to my shop for sewing services. I'd wish to have a one-stop-shop where my customers gets both the materials and sewing labor. I'm planning to save some money so that I can start selling the garment materials. This will enable me to earn double i.e both from sewing labor and from the materials."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is lack of money to do the things that I would really wish to do. My house leaks, I don't have food in the house but I don't have money that can take care of the need. I am just suffering here."

"It was around 3:00 am when I heard my phone ringing. I was even shocked because it was unusual for my phone to ring at such an hour. I quickly checked the content of the message where I realized that I had received a sum of KES 55000 from GiveDirectly. They had sent my first transfer as they had promised during the enrollment. I felt very happy."

"I still insist on buying materials like cement and sand to use in plastering my house so that I can have a very beautiful house. At the end of the six months, my house will be the envy of the entire village and my family will be free from constant outbreaks of colds and flu due to dust."