"When I receive this money, I will make great milestones in my tailoring business by investing more capital. I will also be able to pay off my piece of land that I was bargaining for."

"I have a plan of saving some little cash at the beginning of each month so that I can be able to take good care of my wife who gave birth early last month. It is not easy being the sole provider for the family so that means I have to keep working hard to make sure that I fully provide for the family."

"In the next six months, I will have started a grocery business. I will be also a poultry farmer because I already own some good number of chickens bought using the transfers. My sources of income will be more than last year and the year before I started to benefit from GiveDirectly. Because of this, I am going to be a reliable mother in my family."

"When I finally buy the solar lighting system which I hope I will have within the next six months, my daily life will definitely change as I will not have to spend daily on kerosene and the brightly lit house will make it easier for my children to read at night without any difficulties. This is great news especially for my child in his final year in primary school and needs to revise more for the final exams later this year."

"I hope that in the next six months, I will have more livestock in my cow shed as I am planning to buy more using the rest of GD transfers. I also have hope of having enough stock of food in my stores because this farming season was a very good one for me. With the help of GD transfers, I was able to buy quality farm inputs and cultivated a much larger piece of land than I ever have before because I could manage to hire labourers to help in the farm activities. I was also able to cultivate a portion of my land that has always been fallow due to lack of resources to cultivate which pleases me because I know my family will go for a very long time before spending on cereals and even have excess to sell in case we have any emergencies."

"In the next six months, I am certain that I will be attending school with little distractions caused by fee arrears. I will have cleared this semesters school fees."

"I still have children in secondary school and since my age no longer allows me to work in the farm,I often strain to raise their fees.I only depend on my farm and sometimes I have to seek the services of casual labourers who at the end of the day also need to be paid.Raising school fees is the biggest hardship I have faced"

"Receiving this money means that I will be able to build my family a better house.The hut we live in is very small and sometimes am even ashamed to have visitors in my home.I have always wanted to build an iron roofed house but money constraints have not allowed me.This is my chance and am so grateful"

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is the inability to satisfy basic needs for my family.I have five children of my own and one orphan whom I taking care of.The small piece of land we have floods during the rainy season.This means that we get very little or no harvest at all.Financial constraints forced my husband to go the neighbouring county to work as a casual labourer.However what he gets is still not enough to satisfy the basic needs and pay school fees.I also depend on casual labour here at home which is not guaranteed."

"Every woman's desire after marriage is to bear Children. However in my case, i have been married for 20 years yet i haven't been blessed with a child to call my own. I have been subjected to redicule from my in-laws, something which forced my spouse to marry another wife who now has three children and is pregnant with the forth child. I have visited several hospitals seeking for treatment but my efforts have bore no fruit.This is the biggest hardship i have faced in my life"