"Reeivibg this money means having well educated children who are empowered to work in important offices within and out of the country. My future will be bright because my children will be supportive to me and my household at old age. Currently, The small business is the one trying to make them stay at school but it is not very sustainable. "

"Starting livestock business, installing water pipes to my home and educating my children is what receiving this money means to me. Currently I am a house wife who depend on my husband's casual jobs yet his earnings are not enough to fully support our basic needs. When I receive my transfers from GiveDirectly, I am confident enough to fulfill my life dreams. I plan to use my first transfer to install water pipes to my home. This will help me to store water in my tanks and also sell to my neighbors, thus a reliable source of income. My second disbursement will be a capital to my husband in order to start a livestock business which will earn us more profit. This will enable us to support our children's education and also change our life for the better, a transformation that I have longed for."

"Being a widow with no reliable source of income is my biggest hardship. Currently, I depend on farming but considering my age, I am no longer energetic enough such that, my harvests are usually few, mostly a half sack of maize. In most cases, I am forced to skip some meals due to lack of money that can aid me in buying from the shop. Therefore, I consider lack of a reliable source of income as my biggest challenge."

"In a drought stricken area, I depend on subsistence farming to feed a family of six. This is not sufficient and I burn charcoal to supplement it. However, it is still not enough because the business is not so productive after it was banned. I have had enough of this struggle and it is time for change. I will therefore start a goat rearing project to generate income. I prefer goats because they are drought resistant and they reproduce at a very high rate."

"I spent KSH 2000 of my most recent transfer on paying for my house rent. Since I am a part-time student, clearing my rent timely helps me to continue with my studies well and concentrate on paying the school fees alone, thus reducing the burden. I also took KSH 1500 to support my mother who runs a small business that has been our source of income as well as a source of my school fees. I did some shopping on the remaining amount on foodstuffs and other household needs."

"My new goal is to open a boutique. I feel that business is what I can do well. With a good relationship with the college students, I have been able to sustain my current business and I know that it will even get better when I have a strategic business structure where all customers will be able to get all that they need in one place."

"It is very embarrassing that at my age, I am still living in my grandmother's house with my wife. The shame has affected how I relate with my fellow villagers as most of them make fun of me. I am doing all that I can to ensure that in the next six months, I will have constructed a house of my own house and live a normal life."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have saved enough money to enable me to expand my acre of farming I will be in a position to buy seeds and fertilizers needed for that project."

"It was a usual morning in my village and like always, one village mate came visiting and he looked unusually excited. On inquiring, he asked me if I had not received the transfer from Give Directly. I immediately sent for my helper and upon checking, he confirmed that indeed I too had received the money from Give Directly. I got excited and I was thankful to God and Give Directly for the help."

"I spent the whole of my transfer on moving into my place. I had been renting my house but due to demolishing that occurred, I was left with an option of staying in my parent's house with my children. My business was not stable at that time, hence I could not think of renting another house. Now that in the last few months I had concentrated on boosting my business and the income has been able to sustain my children and I, I decided to reduce the burden from my parents. Today, I have the freedom of operating my business till late, something that I could not do at my parent's place. I can never complain. I can only thank GiveDirectly for changing my life."