"As I said earlier I have seven children and they all live at home. My children sleep in their uncle's house, my younger brother, and their grandmother's house because my house is not sufficient for them to live in. I want to use the savings that I make monthly to begin a project of building a house for my children. I want to build a two room house that will be sufficient for all the 7 of them even as they go through school and try to get a footing for themselves. I am hoping by the end of the year I will have began building so that I can use the coming years transfer to finish the structure."

"I am now a father of one. I had no family when Givedirectly came in but now things have changed. I need to put a lot of focus on nurturing my young family. I am also not working at the moment as my employer asked me to take time off after my wife gave birth. I want to build a sustainable business through animal rearing that I can depend on when need arises. I want to use my savings to buy animals maybe goats which will multiply and I cans ell to get a dairy cow whose milk I can sell and get income. I also want to get a drivers license and so I hope to use the savings to also pursue this by paying for driving school."

"I want to be developped from the livestock that I bought so that I will be self supporting in coming days"

"I want to have a cow so that i will have manure and milk to drink"

"I've been burning charcoal in order to sell it and earn money to support my family, which has been difficult with the present economic situation. Nonetheless, since receiving the transfers, we have been able to live a better life; our children are in school reading with no disruptions because their school fees are fully paid; we are eating well because I have stocked the food stuffs; unlike before, when we would only eat when we had money and sleep hungry when we didn't, I would say God has been gracious to us through givedirectly transfers, and we will live to remember. I'm excited to start a business that will allow us to survive on second transfers."

"We have a farm close to Marigat town, and since accessing water there is considerably simpler, we usually plant food crops like corn and practice some irrigation. We therefore spent $20 to buy water for irrigation using the first transfer received. There is currently a drought here, making it practically hard for plants to survive on their own, therefore this is the only reliable method of obtaining food. In addition to the goats I already own, I also spent $30 on a goat for rearing. Goats are relatively draught-resistant and inexpensive to maintain and thus the reason we keep them. I bought food for my family and paid for land tilling with the remainder of the transfer."

"I was busy with my normal household duties when I received a message but since I cannot read, I had to wait till the next day to have my helper check. When he confirmed to me that it was the Givedirectly transfer that had been sent, I immediately planned to go and cash out and buy some needs that we wanted."

"I was so happy when my daughter confirmed that the message that I had received was a notification that money from Givedirectly had been sent to me!"

"I received a notification message that I had received $200 from Givedirectly as we had been promised when I was on my way back back to my home from the school where I volunteer as a teacher. I praised God silently for Givedirectly and prayed for his blessing to Givedirectly as I was overcome with joy."

"My children had been sent home from school that day, and I was contemplating how I would have raised his fees. I had no idea where to begin; they are in high school, and I was concerned because I had not been receiving any support; this had put a halt to their studies. I received a message on my phone, and upon checking, it was an MPESA message informing me that I had received my first transfer. This immediately made me and my children happy."