"Receiving this money means that I shall be able to buy a pump for my water well. I have grown old and drawing the water from the well using a bucket and a rope is tedious, buying the water pump will help me cut on medical bills that I incur due to its current effect, I will also be able to sell water to my neighbors. Selling the water will enable me get additional money to pay fees. "

"The biggest hardship I am faced with is unemployment. I am the last born in a polygamous family and my parents died immediately I finished form four so I was not taken to college for any training. I therefore depend on manual/non skilled jobs which are currently affected with long rains, because we are not able to work in the rice farms while it is raining. Sometimes I have to engage in other kinds of jobs like clearing of roads by local contractors where there pay us piece meal that cannot meet even our daily food requirement."

"I would have relied on the casual jobs that I normally undertake within the village, for instance, I would have been cultivating land for people in the village and get paid some little penny maybe lets say 200 KES per day, which is never enough,and making any savings from such little payment is almost next to impossible."

"I want to start a small scale business of selling second-hand clothes so that i will be able to sustain myself and my family so that when the organization stops sending me ,money I will be help to keep going"

"The onions project is what my major program right now because I know that is has a very high rate of return in the market. Once the markets accept my farm products I know I will be able to generate a lot of income into the future even when the organization stops sending me the cash."

"My daughter finished class eight last year but due to limited financial resources I was not able to enroll her in a secondary school. Receiving this money will help me take her for a tailoring course in Bamba that she has always desired and which will be much more affordable for me. I will also buy her a sewing machine, fabrics and thread so she can start making clothes for people and earn from it thus boosting our household income."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months since I will have a lot of produce on my farm. I will be harvesting maize and I hope it will be a good harvest since it has already started showing signs of a good season. I have seen this because there has been quite some rain early in the season. I will also have increased the heard of sheep."

"Holding 55000 KES in my hands was so strange. I have never handled this amount in my entire life and this was the first time it was happening to me. I had mixed feelings. I was happy, at the same time felt confused but, here it was,GiveDirectly had sent me the money and I counted myself lucky and considered my problems over."

"I was already awake listening to my favorite program from our vernacular radio station dubbed, "know your bible" when I heard my phone ring. I checked and saw a Mpesa Message from GiveDirectly, I woke up my wife and all she said was,''We thank God'', We had to pray to thank God for this gift of money. When daylight came, you could see the excitement in people's faces and no one could pass you without asking if you had received too. I was super happy too, even though there are those who had their doubts about the money, like one aged woman who sent for me and I had to take my time and remind her of how GD staff talked to us about the money, I saw she was excited too and immediately after getting convinced for the second time, she called her granddaughter and went to the hospital using the same transfers. I was and still so happy."

"The biggest difference in my daily life now is that I am now making profits from the ducks I rear for business purposes. My family can now afford a fair life or, let me just say, a middle-class kind of life. A life that we previously envied a lot. I am not idle too as rearing my ducks keeps me busy, feeding them and making them ready for the markets."