"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is that there is a time that I got very sick and got admitted in hospital. This drained me financially and I had to sell some of my cows in order to settle the medical bill. "

"I used13,000 KES to buy a cow for raring. The rest of the money are still on my phone and I'm planning to build a kitchen with it."

"I invested a portion of the transfer in crop farming. I bought two cows worth 27,000 KES. Besides I paid my daughter in private primary school fee."

"I spent my third transfer on accomplishing my house which I began using GD transfers. I also bought a cow as an asset for economic security."

"I spent my third transfer on buying doors and accomplishing my house which I began using GD transfers. I also bought a cow for rearing."

"I spent the transfer on paying school fees 20000 KES, bought a cow 20000 KES, bought 1 goat 5000 KES and used balance on daily meals."

"I spent the larger part of my third transfer on buying a dairy cow 30,000 KES and a donkey 8,000 KES which I use to collect water thus I no longer make several trips to collect water as I used to before the teansfer .I bought text books for my son and paid school fees for my daughter who is in nursery school.I also bought a bag of maize for my family's consumption and seeds for planting."

"When I received my third transfer, I plastered the walls and floor of my main house with sand and cement. I decided to plaster it since I am too old to walk long distance to search for clay and cow dung for smearing."

"I can say that a lot has improved in my life and more specifically to farming. Initially, I used to buy milk but now I have a dairy cow that generates for me at least 6 L of milk a day. Again, I do farming in large, growing french beans and all these has increased my income. I have transformed from a peasant to a great farmer and that is how my life is different than it would have been if I never received transfers from Give Directly."

"My life has changed a lot. I never had any source of income but currently we have one. We run a taxi business with a motorcycle that we bought with the transfer and therefore affording our basic needs is no longer such a big challenge. Besides this, I have acquired more wealth ranging from cows, goats and sheep and therefore I am no longer vulnerable to financial difficulties. And therefore if it were not transfers from Give Directly, I wouldn't have achieved this improved living standard."