"It is going to boost my income because right now I depend on collecting and selling firewood but with this money I intend to start a small business."

"This money is going to ease our burden of paying school fees for our children. "

"I will be able to finally take my son to college. He has had to stay home since 2015 for lack of money to further his education."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life has been dealing with disability and at the same time parenting my children single handedly. I got a stroke attack immediately after losing my husband and lost functionality of the right side of my body. That was the beginning of hopelessness in my life."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in life is difficulty in raising school fees for my children in school. Most of the time they have been forced to stay back home for lack of money."

"The biggest hardship I am facing currently is lack of water for domestic use. I have to spend more than Kshs 200 daily on buying water. "

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have a spacious decent three roomed house in my own homestead which I have been wishing for from the time I got married as a second wife. Now I am at peace, happy and more composed since I no longer have logger- heads with my co- wife. I am thankful to GIveDirectly for reviving my dignity as a woman."

"Receiving this money means I am blessed. I will use it to build a bigger house and also to buy some household items."

"Receiving this money means that I will build a kitchen,buy some livestock and start my own hairdressing business(saloon) to become self employed"

"The biggest hardship we have is paying for my dowry.My husband has not paid for my dowry despite us being married for nine years and my father is not comfortable with that.I would like to use a portion of the money to help him pay the dowry because I'm too old to go back and stay in my father's home."