"In the next six months, I expect my life to change in that, I will have a stable business. I will also have identified a good location for my business where I can get more customers in the trading center. This will simply mean that most of the people will be able to see what I do hence translating to more profits. I believe that by changing my location and market myself more, in six months time I will have made several steps towards achieving some of my goals. I don't think I would have made any progress at the moment if GiveDirectly had not come to our village. I could have not even thought of moving to a busier center because I could not have enough resources to do that."

"Receiving this money means a huge relief for me in terms of accessing my basic needs of food, water and shelter. I currently reside in an old small thatched roof house that leaks during rainy seasons. With this cash, I will be able to build a new and bigger house with an iron sheets roof. I will also buy oxen and ox plough to assist me in farming since am too old to till a big portion of land manually. Last but not least, I will purchase a bicycle for my son in order to cut cost of ferrying water using a motorcycle."

"I live in a mud wall house that is in good condition to shelter in given that my children education had been my priority, hence building a different house had to be forgone. In the next four months, I have a new goal in my life to build a modern house that will boost my self-esteem society and also allow me to have a better place to live in."

"I am an unmarried single mother of six. I currently reside in my parent's land and my greatest ambition has always been to own land of my own. Receiving this money will see me edge closer to this reality in that I am planning to purchase about 0.2 acre piece of land within the village. This is going to give me a sense of worth. "

"It's been more than twenty years since my husband and I separated due to his mental illness. Since then, I have had to single handedly cater for my children's basic needs such as food, education, medication etc. With little and unreliable income due to scarcity of trees caused by massive deforestation, my charcoal business has not been doing well. My children's education suffers the most as they are constantly kicked out of school due to huge fee balances. "

"In the next six months, I expect my life to have greatly improved in that I will not be spending as much as I do currently since my farming will have improved hence will have better products. I expect to have enough food and surpluses to see to meet other financial needs in my family. I expect to have gotten enough money to buy a cow that will always be my proud to own it."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now own a pair of oxen that I acquired through the first transfer I received from GiveDirectly. They will help me in my farming activities since the pair can take fewer days to plough an acre. I am so happy because I will be getting some good harvests. Previously I used to get little harvests because I was the only one doing the exercise because I could not afford to hire from my neighbors. I am planning to hire them to my neighbors at a fee and this will be my source of income to help me sustain my family needs with no difficulties."

"My ambition in life is to be a business woman. I want to have a salon and a cereal shop possibly outside of Nairobi. I can employ my mother and aunty to operate the cereal shop and I can run the salon. I want my mother to be empowered financially, to be able to support herself and cater to her daily needs. I will then be able to assist my nieces and nephews in their education. I value education and since I did not have the opportunity to further my education, I would like to give them this opportunity."

"My first priority is to invest in a new business. I am a casual worker, I wash clothes for people at Eastleigh and also do construction work at construction sites. These work is very tiresome and does not pay much. I want to start a business of selling African attires here in Mathare. Previously I had tried to venture into it, I would go to Malaba to buy stock once a month, but I could not keep up with it because of the high cost of transportation. I want to put up a structure where I can sell the attires instead of hawking and be able to go to Malaba more frequently to purchase them in larger quantities. Secondly, I want to pay my childrens school fees. I am a single parent, my husband and I separated awhile ago and I was left to take care of my children all by myself. Currently he is married to the fourth wife and he does not assist me in taking care of our children. I have three children, two girls and one boy. I would want to invest in their education especially my daughters. I would not want them to drop out of school as I did. I dropped out of school at a very early age, my parents passed on and from the age of 12 I became a housemaid. I would like to give them a better life than I had, this I know I can achieve by investing in their education. Lastly, I want to be able to pay my National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF), I registered awhile ago but I have not been able to make my monthly payments. I have incurred a great interest and I would like to settle it inorder to take my children to hospital when they fall sick. One of my daughters got burnt by hot water as she fell into a sufuria while she was playing on the bed, this affected her reproductive organs. I need to be taking her to hospital for check ups but I have failed in doing so since I lack the finances. My other daughter has ulcers that causes her to faint when she has not eaten. I lack money for food at times and in school they eat maize and beans which is not good for her, this means that she has to stay without food till she comes back home and hopefully I have money to buy food. The NHIF card will come in handy whenever they need treatment."

"The money has enabled me to replace the old and worn out beddings that I have been using for some years now with a new wooden bed and a new mattress. Replacing my beddings seemed impossible to me for a long time and I am grateful to GiveDirectly for the transfer has empowered me to achieve this. I now enjoy a comfortable sleep unlike before, which to me makes it be the biggest difference in my daily life."