"Money gives me a lot of happiness. I worry less when I make some more because I know my bills are paid. I can pay school fees for my son and buy food. Most times I cook buns for my family when I come back home with some income."

"Receiving this money means good education for my children and self reliance through livestock production. I am a 34 year old widow with a family of 5 children who still depend on me. With an income of 10,000 KES that comes from charcoal burning, sustaining my family's needs is challenging. A huge part of the income goes into buying food and clearing medical bills. I intend to buy 10 goats at a total cost of 25,000 KES. Goat keeping will make my dream of being self reliant come true. In a year, the goats will have multiplied and will be selling them to earn an income. My 5 children are still schooling. The eldest is in a technical college and the other four in primary school. Paying their school fees being a challenge for me, I will save the rest of the money for paying their school fees as they continue with their studies."

"Receiving this transfer would help me clear school fees for my daughter who is her final year in University. I will spend KES 30,000 on her school arrears, hopefully that after graduation she will definitely secure a good job to support my family which is really struggling in affording basic needs such food. I will use the remaining part of the money to add more business stock for my kiosk which is currently my main source of income to my family of 6 members."

"Receiving this money means a spacious house to my family. Currently I am sharing a small house with my family of 8. I am planning to spend my entire first transfer to construct a semi permanent two bedroom house which will be spacious enough to accommodate my family of 8. With my second transfer I will spend KES 30000 to buy 10 goats that will act as long term investment project to my household. I will use KES 5000 to clear school fees to my children in primary school so that they can study with easy hence better performance. The remaining amount will cater for other household needs like food."

"As a single mother it has been so much struggle to raise my kids. I have three of them currently in high school and they all need a total of KES. 70,000 yearly. I have no income at all and I mostly depend on casual labor which is hard to come by. I have sold all the cows that I had to meet this demand for school fees. Receiving this money is now a reprieve for me since I shall be able to pay for them all the arrears and also buy some other cows which will also help me in paying their final year school fee in the year 2023 and 2024. I really appreciate your help as Give Directly because I will feel your support for the next 5 years."

"Financial constraints have been a major challenge to my family. I am an ECD teacher and my salary was not always enough to cater to our basic needs, pay school fees for our children, and remain with some to use in major developments like building a house. Due to this, we had to continue living in my mother-in-law's house. I am happy since we will be able to build our own house very soon using the transfer. This will give me a sense of pride and ownership as nothing feels good like having something to call your own."

"Lack of sleep has been my norm as I am always stressed up about how to get money to use in paying school fees for my children. Despite being employed, my salary is not enough to cater to all our needs as I am the breadwinner in my family and I have three children in college and two in secondary school. With the transfer from GiveDirectly, I was able to pay school fees for my daughter in college and I am glad and grateful to GiveDirectly for the support that I have received. Currently, my daily life has changed as I get to sleep well without worrying about so many things going on in life as I know that when God is with someone, he/she will never lack."

"It has always been my desire to live in a permanent house since it is long-lasting and it comes with some pride and new status in society. I had already started buying some building materials but had to leave this project pending and concentrate on paying school fees for my children. Currently, two are in secondary school while the others are through with their studies and when I received my transfer, I decided to revive my construction project. I spent KES 53600 to buy some building blocks and used the remaining KES 1000 on some foodstuffs for my family. I am happy and grateful to GiveDirectly for enabling me to continue with this project that I thought would still take two years before resuming it."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I completed to pay school fees for my daughter who in a tailoring college and she graduated well. Thereafter I bought her a sewing machine and constructed a single-room house for her to start her tailoring business at the shopping center so that she can establish herself. Initially I used to pay the school fees as well as sustain my family’s basic needs from selling charcoal which was a mega challenge and I doubt if my daughter would have been able to graduate if it were not for GiveDirectly."

"Receiving this money means a better life for my household, I am currently doing a small business of knitting school sweaters and selling them to individual customers. This money gives me an opportunity to growing my business as I will rent a place in Chebunyo trading center and maximize the production and sale of school sweaters which will earn me more income, with this I plan to set aside KES 50000 as capital and operating cost to run this business successfully. My firstborn child is disabled and he is enrolled in a special school for persons with disabilities, this has been costly for us, this money gives me hopes as I will set aside KES 20000 to pay school fees and his daily up keep . Also, our house is not in good condition making me plan the remaining money to renovate our house."