"I spent my third transfer on school fees and food for my family, I also bought 4 goats and constructed a pit latrine."

"My father had just experienced a case of theft in his homestead. His cattle precisely 6 cows were stolen in his homestead so immediately I got the transfer I decided to give him the money to buy some few cattle with. He bought 2 cows which he uses in ploughing his farm."

"My husband makes culverts, so I spent most part of my third transfer on paying for mould to enable him make the culverts for sale at home. The remaining amount I spent on buying dust and cement for the whole process to be completed. I know when we sell them to contractors, we will get the money to build a new house soon. I have been longing for a new house and I thought this is the best way to get it. The remaining amount I spent on buying clothes and food for my children."

"For years, after burying all my children and spouse, life became so hard for me. I had no better source of income that could sustain me. That could clearly be proven by the kind of the house that I was living in at the time of enrollment. All my attempts to acquire a better house never bore me any fruit. When I received this transfer, therefore, I constructed a nice house that every passing by could admire. That was a very big transformation looking at the kind of the house I had before. I can clearly attest that, that was one of the motivational factors towards accepting the project. I could imagine resisting GiveDirectly yet I was living in a house that was which could collapse on me anytime. I had no food at all, leave alone better clothing. I was extremely poor...."

"I used a portion of my transfer to buy sand, cement and paid laborers who cemented the house which I had built with the second transfer because this would relieve me the burden of smearing my house with cowdung, I bought a sheep hoping that it will reproduce young ones which I can sell to pay school fees for my children and the remaining amount, I spent to buy a sack of maize for consumption and food for my family."

"I spent my third transfer on buying two oxen to assist on cultivating my farm and now I no longer practicing labor exchange which was mainly time consuming .I paid school fees for my child who is in high school 4,000 KES. I also bought a bag of maize and household expenditures."

"I spent my third transfer on completion plastering my room house which was made of mud and I needed to improve it( 13,000 KES). I also bought a heifer (10,000 KES) to provide milk for my family in future, and spent the rest on dry corn (1,500 KES). I am still holding some money that I spend to buy food from time to time."

"I built a kitchen with my last transfer before building the kitchen I used to cook out in the field so when it rained this duty of cooking would be difficult since I also wouldn't want to fill the main house with smoke, I also bought super drum for storing water and a suite case to store my clothes and my husbands too."

"I spent my third transfer on my sugarcane farm. I decided to plant sugarcane because we have a sugar factory near our home and when they mature up I will sell to factory and get money for income. The remaining portion of the money I took to school for my children in order for them not to be sent back home for fee arrears."

"I spent my third transfer on building a 3 room house since our current house is made of grass and leaks."