"I am planning to build a poultry house in the next six months. I have plans to expand my chicken-rearing business and increasing the building is my start off point. I will then increase the number of chicken with time. Once I fully establish this business, I know I will be good to handle any financial problem that comes my way."

"I do expect I will have bought a cow in the next six months. This means that I will not be spending much on purchasing milk. I will be saving the money which I would have spent on the same to achieve my other basic needs. I will also be selling milk in order to supplement what I will be getting from my daily hustle."

"The biggest hardship I have faced is lack of enough food for the family. This is because there is no sufficient money to improve our agriculture like proper ploughing, fertilizers etc."

"My life has changed now because I constructed an iron roofed house which has given us privacy. Previouly, we were sharing one hut with my six children. On top of that, It's roof could leak."

"My life is different now because I have my own cow, an ox which does the ploughing. I also managed to pay school fees for my children on time. Before I received the cash transfer, I could hire oxen which was expensive and I could be among the last people to plough when the rains have reduced. If I hadn't got the money, my children would have been sent home because of school fees."

"My life is better, I paid a debt which enabled me get back the land I had given to the money lender as security. I am currently cultivating in it. Another difference in my life is that I am now officially married after payment of dowery, I feel happy and we are leaving in peace. Previously, I shared farm land with my father inlaw and we got little harvest and we had no say on it. My mother also could often complain to my husband over dowery. It is a traditional requirement that a man should pay dowery for a wife."

"These cash transfers have made it possible for me to sleep in an iron roofed house and I am so grateful to GiveDirectly for that wonderful gift. Futhermore, I have owned a cow, 2 mattresses and bed sheets at once. Before receiving this transfers, I slept in an grass thatched hut that leaked whenever it rained and on very old mattress."

"I now feel like a real man, I have stood up for my family. As usual, it's the role of the man to provide decent shelter to his family. This wasn't the case with me previously because what I have provided for my family was no more and I was not able to provide another one in time. Without GD money, I do not know what would have become of my family. I thank GD for taking away my shame."

"I am a mother with a passion for giving my children a better future that relies on small business to raise my family needs. I have children in various schools and in college. The nature of my business is so engaging and require a lot of sacrifices to meet the goal. I take about two to three hours to get into the neighboring community land where I fetch firewood so that I can sell to earn a living. I spend almost twelve hours a day to earn a maximum of Six hundred shilling amount that is enough to sustain my family daily basic needs and children education hence I have to be there on daily basis to reduce the debts that I will incur if I don't. I am growing older and getting exhausted with my business day in day out. When I received my first transfer from GD I used part of it on my children education, household food and other daily expenditure and this has given me the biggest difference in my daily life. Even though I will go back to my business I have taken a rest since I have enough food and I have paid for my child in secondary school hence have fewer expenses to incur, I am currently relaxed with peaceful minds."

"In the next six months, I do not have an additional goal but I plan to concentrate on the goal of starting up a business. After the business has picked, I believe I'll be able to have a good income to start thinking and planning for a new goal to better my life."