"The biggest difference in my daily life after receiving the first transfer is the clearance of my three children's school fees. I had been struggling to meet all the household financial needs and on receiving this transfer, I was grateful that I am finally finding an easy time clearing their school fees so that I can concentrate on other projects."

"I am a business woman selling bonney to send my children to school , because my and husband and I are on separation, things are very difficult now. If I am qualify to receive cash from Givedirectly, my plan is to add up my business, by selling bonney and other good fish that will give me more profit . The capitol I have in the business now is very small and can not feed my children and pay their school fees."

"I am a father with six children and my children education matter to me most. My plan for the transfer from Givedirectly is to send my send my six children to school. School is about to open and my greatest worry now is to pay my children school fees. I am not working, generating money now is very difficult, the farm we have is to only feed the family. The house my family and myself are living in now is leaking because the thatch we used to roof the house has spoiled , I will also use part of the money to roof my house with zinc."

"My life has changed a lot since I received the first and the second transfer from GievDirectly. I have managed to construct, obtained new furniture, livestock and also cleared school fees for my children. I am grateful since all these would not have been possible if I had not received the support."

"I spent part of my first transfer on buying several buying materials which include bricks 22000, ten bags of cement at KES 6000, gravel and sand at KES 10000. I had to purchase all these with an aim of constructing a new permanent rental house in the nearby town centre. Also, I gave the mason KES 5000 as his labour costs. In addition to that, I also paid school fees for my two children who are both in primary schools and I am happy they are no longer being sent home severally like before. I finally bought a few household items like food, utensils and some clothes with the remaining amount of money."

"At mid-morning, I was at home chatting with my neighbour when I heard my phone beep. To my surprise, I saw the message notification letting me know that I had received cash from GiveDirectly. The sombre mood I had from my children being sent home for lack of school fees was immediately replaced by overwhelming joy. I could not believe this was happening."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that through the transfers, I was able to clear my children's school fees. My payer has always been to see them waking up and rush to catch their lessons without missing any. Previously, this has never been achievable because, I am jobless, which leaves my spouse the sole breadwinner of the family (eight members), and he has been working as a taxi driver earning KES 300 in a day. Paying school fees on time was a bit tricky because he had to buy the daily meals as the most needed. Therefore this has been keeping my children out of school was very demoralizing. I feel so happy now seeing them going to school every morning without hiccups like before."

"An unstable source of income is the major challenge that I go through. For many years farming has been my major occupation until last month, when I became a watchman in a nearby primary school. With a family of six people, my salary of 6000 KES a month is not enough. Half of this amount goes to my children's school fees while the rest is used for food and other needs. Thinking a lot about this situation causes me to lose weight at times."

"In table banking, I do save 100KES a week and one can take a loan three times the savings. With the transfers, I will be setting aside 2000KES every month. Once the cash accumulates to 10000KES, I will take a loan of 30000KES to finish the construction of my house. I have six children in school, two are in secondary school. The transfers shall lessen my burden of raising school fees."

"I dropped out of school in standard five due to a lack of school fees. I started with palm wine tapping but my daily wages (100KES per day) could not sustain me. I did get a well-wisher who supported me with a motorbike. Am supposed to pay him 300KES a day but achieving this is not easy since the job is done by many youths. The lack of skills to enable me to acquire a better and reliable source of income is my great challenge."