"In the next six months, I expect my life to be better than in that with the better farming I have done currently I will have enough food and surpluses to sell to increase my income. I expect to be earning more from poultry farming that I started before hence meeting my daily household expenditures will be easier."

"My new goal is to expand my wife's business by adding mobile banking services ( M-pesa). I want my customers to get all the services under one roof. After learning business tactics from my wife, I will even quit the odd jobs and help her run it."

"The moment I received the transfer, I felt very happy. I had woken up and switched on my phone as a routine. The first message that I saw was the one informing me that I had received the transfer. The first person that I told was my wife and we agreed to use the money to boot our business first."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that my income has increased. I started a business of selling shoes and jackets in the local market and moved away from collecting garbage that was paying me so little. I could never sustain myself with the income that I got from collecting the garbage as the work was also done over the weekends, meaning, what I earned had to take me all through the week. This was not enough. Now, with the business I am running, I am in control of the profits I make. I can happily say that both my primary and secondary needs are met with ease. Thanks to GiveDirectly."

"The moment I received the transfer I felt very happy because I had never received such a lumpsum amount of money before. I was overjoyed to the extent that I did not go to look for the casual jobs that day. I decided to start planning on how to use the money."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that, I shall have bought the required building materials which will facilitate the construction of my new house. This will be a stepping stone that I will forever be thankful to GiveDirectly when it comes to its completion."

"Early this year, one of my children was joining college while two more were scheduled to join secondary school. For several days we had the dilemma of having the two repeat primary school so we could ease the fee burden. Upon further deliberation we resolved to sacrificially sell the dairy cows we had so as to accommodate all the three in school. Consequently, live without livestock as source of income is hard but we had to endure it till date. This is the biggest hardship I've faced in my life. "

"I expect to have a huge stock of flock within the next six months. Therefore, I will need to be financially disciplined and dedicated most of my time at work to get the best quality out of the business. In order to have massive profits when I start selling them most probably in December holiday when their market is at the peak."

"In the next six months. I see my life to have greatly improved in that I will have started my butchery business. I will be doing my own work at my pace and will be generating more income. I will be in a better position to do better in farming with the help of profits I will be generating thus we will have enough food in the future in our family."

"The biggest hardship I face is lack of money for educating my children currently studying at st.Johns secondary school kachumbala. My children report to school by chance at an earlier date and this is impacting negatively on their performance."