"My husband relies on fishing for our livelihood. He gets between 150KES-200KES a day which gets exhausted in supplying food for our family of eight children.I have been longing to start keeping goats since we have a vast land of thicket where they can easily graze. The coming of GiveDirectly transfers will aid me get a goat each month for six months. Once multiplied, the goats will support me pay school for my children."

"RE: Before givedirectly could come i wished to somedays build my own house, but never taught of it becoming a reality especially not this early. Presently my mission is to build a house, so right now i am about to purchase some zinc for the fulfilment of my dream. Before givedirectly could come, my spouse could go fishing while i could dry the fish afterwards and sale it for our family up keep."

"RE: I am a fisherman but life was very unbearable for me and my family as a fisherman, because i could bearly own a fiting net to fish with, i even had to be using people old and unwanted net to fishing just to survive with my family. Since givedirectly came in this my village and started giving us money, my life has improve beyond imagination. Today as I speak, i now own my personal Canon and as well as nets. My next biggest dreams are to change my house from mat house to zinc house and set up my own little shop to substant me and my family before the end of givedirectly transfer program."

"RE: I was thinking about purchasing my own fishing net in other to start my personal fishing bussiness which before givedirectly could come seems impossible because of financial constraints. The most important of them all was how i could get money to send my child(kid) to acquire quality education outside of this village which i could not afford because i had no money, but now with givedirectly transfer all is possible. I have purchase my own fishing net and am now selling the fish i caught with the net which is a good business here, i am going to send my kid to Cestos city to acquire quality education as I always wish."

"Apart from being a motorbike rider, I am sometimes involved in fishing at our nearby river, so that I sell the fish and earn an income. I once went to the river and surprisingly, I managed to get a lot of fish that I sold to earn $10 that day. This income gave me the feeling of happiness because it supported my family for 3 days with food after having gone through a rough week of skipping meals. This is basically what brought joy to my life especially in the last 6 months."

"Lack of food is the greatest challenge I currently face. My job, fishing, is greatly affected by drought. I hardly save a coin from my daily income of approximately 200KES.All my resources were drained towards paying fees and food."

"Am married to two wives. My first wife has seven children and the second has nine. Paying school fees for my two children who are in secondary and six in primary has drained all my resources including my two acres which i had to keep it on collateral. My current job is fishing bringing home of about 200KES a day which is not enough to supply three meals a day for my family.Receiving this cash will enable my family get enough food,probably three meals a day. Once meals are sorted, with a monthly saving of 1000KES I will be able to off set some of the fee arrears."

"This money will help me to build a good house. We are expecting a new baby and that means the family is growing. I cant afford to build now because i dont earn enough from fishing work that i do. My earning range between MK1,000 to MK4, 000 per day.I also intend to start keeping goats as a means of keeping the money. I selected goats because they easily mature and feed on a variety of feed. Plus you can easily sell one and solve immidiate problems."

"This money will be meaningful as i will buy ironsheets so that in the near future we should no longer worry about rains because whenever it's a rainy season our house its always in water due to leaks from the roof (grass thatched), on our own we couldn't manage because we don't have a fixed source of income as a husband i go fishing and i sell some of the fish which is less 2000 and i use that to buy maize for us to be eating but we couldn't afford to build a beautiful house"

"I'm feeling so excited of receiving my first GD payment because in my entire life I've gotten money of such donation from anyone or organization and the donation is going to change my house hold lives. Before GD came, I have being producing canoe for sale and fishing on the sea. This is my house hold's only source of income. So with the presence of GD in my family's lives, I intending to open business that will serve as an additional source of income and to build a house that will be roofed with a color iron zinc. These will be the major life time development and a dream comes through in my family lives."