"When I received my third transfer, I spent it on a cow, a donkey and food. I was lacking a donkey and a cow and being that my area is semi-arid, fetching water over longer distance was not an easy task. As we talk, I can say that I have somehow combated water related challenges since these my livestock help me a lot when it comes to ferrying water. After long day hard work, I can as well never go minus food to boost my energy since I have it in stock already."

"When I received my third transfer, I plastered my main house with sand and cement since I was not comfortable smearing with clay and cow dung-the cow dung was just smelling horrible and the clay mines were very risky to us-we had several cases of it (clay mine) collapsing and burying people alive."

"When I received my third transfer, I spent it on 2 cows. I decided to spend the whole amount on livestock since I realized that if I could spend this money as opposed to investing it, I would go back to hard life-wallowing in poverty. I can now talk with a lot of courage since Give Directly has given me a sustainable wealth."

"My life has greatly changed with the receipt of the transfers. For once in my entire life, I have consumed milk from my own cow and fed appropriately without necessarily depending on relatives."

"I spent my third transfer on buying 2 cows that I will be keeping for milking. I then invested some of the cash in my sugarcane farming business by buying fertilizer and top dressing the crop. I also bought steel doors which were installed on my house. I then spent the rest of the cash on buying a few kitchen utensils that I did not have."

"I spent most of my third transfer to buy a cow which will reproduce and provide my family with milk. I gave my wife some amount to take to her parents and also bought two bags of maize for my family's consumption."

"i spent most of my third transfer to buy a cow which will reproduce and provide my family with milk. I paid school fees for my child who is in high school and also kept some amount to start an income gene rating activity."

"I spent my third transfer on buying some cows and a few goats which I paid as dowry for my wife, I did this because I had never given anything to my in laws as a token for their daughter's hand. I then invested the rest of the transfer in my tomato farming business which is my main source of income"

"I spent my transfer on buying a cow which is almost calving and giving me milk and 1 sheep. i then bough a solar lighting system which has saved me from buying kerosene for my tin lamp. I then spent the rest of the cash on paying off some debt that I had taken to organize my husband's funeral."

"I spent my third transfer on purchasing 2 cows to aid me in the payment of my wife's dowry. It's been a big challenge living illegally with the spouse as luo customs demanded that a man must pay pride price before settling with a woman for a marriage. Honestly, I couldn't afford this and thus had to stay in a rental house far away from home where the lady's parents could not trace us and take away their daughter."