I am planning to hire a tractor to assist in farming my piece of land of 10 acres, which is about kshs 50,000. I do subsistence farming for a living and when it is done by casual workers it is time-consuming and very expensive. I am expecting to have a good life, with the good rains I will harvest about 25 bags of maize and beans, of which I will use part of it for consumption while the rest will be for sale. I will therefore open a savings account for my children's school fees. This will help in paying school fees in advance and I am expecting them to have good grades which will be a factor when choosing the best courses to undertake in college education. I am having an additional goal of buying a brand-new motorcycle on loan. It costs kshs 400,000. This is meant for business purposes, especially during online deliveries.

In my opinion, what Give Directly does so well is that they give out unconditional transfers, different people have different needs and therefore it would be of no importance if the transfers had any restrictions on the spending patterns. The transfers are given in lump sum amounts and this helps in planning purposes in terms of the developments that we would wish to engage in at a personal level. Unlike other projects where it is given in small amounts. To avoid household conflict, what needs to be done differently is enrolling all the individuals in the household. During enrollment, those individuals who did not have responsibilities by then were left out of the program yet these are the same people who steal from their old and vulnerable parents. Another thing that needs to be done differently is enrolling all the communities in a specific village for uniformity purposes and this will prevent too many complaints coming from the communities that are left out during the registration to the programs

-I am a parent of three boys who are still in Primary school, they are in classes two, four and five. Before the GiveDirectly transfers, I never had any stable source of income and providing for my family had been the most difficult task I have ever faced. I used the whole transfer of kshs 53,000 to purchase a power saw for my business. Before I bought the machine I used to hire it from someone else and this was quite expensive as I remained with very little money for my family's basic needs like food, clothing and education.

I work as a teacher and on the day when I was receiving my transfer, I had gone to look at the crops on my farm. I felt so happy and saw that the plan which I had would come true. Since we had a challenge accessing clean water, I thought of acquiring a water tank.

After acquiring a water tank, we now have access to clean water which is safe for drinking and cooking. The water harvested can take us several days. Again my livestock can't go out of my compound like it used to be before I fenced my compound. These two are the biggest difference in my daily life.

We have been using water from a water pan and this water is not safe for drinking and for cooking at home. I decided to buy a water tank for KES 33000 so that we can have a place to store harvested rainwater. I then spent KES 8000 on buying materials for fencing my compound. The remaining amount of KES 12000, I spent on buying clothes for my family members.