"I used to work as a vegetable vendor but closed the business before I gave birth seven months ago. Because of this, my spouse has been the only person vending for our family. It is my wish to revive this business once my child turns a year old so that I can use the profits to pay for our basic needs while he works towards clearing the motorcycle payments so that we can start other projects." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"On receiving the second transfer, I felt relieved to buy a lactating dairy cow at KES 30000 which brought an instant halt to the daily cost of buying milk for my family of three. The daily KES 50 that I used to spend has now been redirected to serve other household goods. This second transfer also allowed me to pay part of the dowry to my inlaws - who had been pushing that I should start paying after getting married to their daughter. I visited their home, and after a long talk that I was glad to agree and made a deposit of KES 20000, with a promise to keep paying the remaining amount every two months. I later spend the remaining amount on buying household foodstuff and some pairs of clothes for my wife and child." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"I was comfortably able to paid my daughter school fees who is now in University with out going through stress to paid her fees. I was also able to buy a motorcycle that help me with my transportation issue. Thanks to the entire Give Directly family for the transfer that will enable me push my daughter more through her University study."

"I am a father of two and when I received these transfers, I had great plans for my family. With the first transfer, I was able to buy a dairy cow and built a new house for my family. With the second transfer, I had plans of investing in farming and opening up a small business for my wife, However, when the mmoney came my wife insisted that she was going to make all the plans on how the money was going to be spent. I geve her KES 51000 from the second transfer only for her to flee our home leaving me with our two children. My new goal however is still on course and it is to be able to advance ny farming practices to ensure that we have maximum productivity from it. This will also supplement the income that I get from my motorcycle business that sometimes gives us very little or no income at all considering that the motorcycle is not mine." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"For 5 years now I have been engaging in the small-scale milk business. I collect 40 liters of milk from various households and sell them to the nearby cooling plant for a profit. I am now happy that this money will enable me to expand the business by additional 50 liters of milk daily. Being elderly I am unable to carry the cans of milk on my back as I used to before. Therefore with this money, I will be able to purchase a second-hand motorcycle to enable me to transport the milk to the cooling plant."

"Receiving this money means that my children shall be able to progress with their studies without any interruption. I have two sons who just cleared their primary school education and they passed their national exam well. In the next 4 weeks am required to pay KES. 100,000 to cater for their shopping and school fees. We planned to have one of them repeat Grade 8 as we do a fundraiser for the other one because we only have KES. 15,000 at the moment. My husband is a motorcycle taxi operator and that's what we depend on to provide us everything. He earns KES.300 daily which mostly goes to buying food items. We are so happy and as a family, we would like to express our gratitude to GiveDirectly for bringing a solution amid hopelessness." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"Currently I am really struggling to provide food for my young family. Fuel shortage has brought negative impact to my day to day life. For the last two days I have stayed home due to lack of fuel meaning for the said period my family survived in kind. I am optimistic and glad that fuel shortage will come to an end soon as said by the Government of Kenya." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"Before I started receiving payment from GiveDirectly, I had the dream of buying a motorbike in order to run on a commercial basis due to lack of tangible job that could bring forth income. However, since I started receiving payment from GiveDirectly I decided to save my money up to the third payment because I wanted to buy a brand new motorbike. On that note, I have not developed any new goal other than seeing my dream accomplished. Finally, after I received my recent transfer, I immediately rush to town to get my bike which I was able to buy. I am very excited to be self-employed today after been jobless for years. All thanks and appreciation to GiveDirectly for this financial opportunity." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"After I received the transfer on my mobile account, I thought on buying two lot of land to start my building project, so I can ease the renting issue. And for my family and I to have a better living place of our own.Then before the program ends I will try to save some money to do something good that will help us as well." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"I don't have any new goals, because I already had a goal before receiving the transfer, so I decided to continue with my old goal which is to build my new house, for my family and I to live a good life. And to also pay my children school fees. This is what I really been wishing to do." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)