"Upon receiving my second transfer, I thought of prioritizing the school fees of my son who had gotten admission to college. I, therefore, used the entire second transfer of $550 to enrol my son in a medical college to study clinical medicine. Seeing my son in college gives me joy and happiness because would not have been easy without the financial aid from GiveDirectly. I am a food vendor in the village and my husband is a security guard in the township. Together, we have five children. I am contented and happy with the support that uplifted our living standards and gave us hope for a better tomorrow."

"When I withdraw my money I was able to buy additional medicine for my drugs store that I opened in my village."

"My life has greatly improved as I have been recieving Givedrectly transfers. I am feeling happy as I have had a chance to add afew more clothes for myself as I had 20 pieces of clothing before. I spent $1.9 from 4th transfer and $1.6 from the 5th transfer on clothes. I am also glad that I was able to help my family with accessing food for the past three months. My father is our breadwinner and his finances have been spent on paying school fees of $60 monthly for my 4 siblings and this means that he is unable to buy food. I was able to help with food purchases from my transfer by spending $1.2 from my fourth transfer, $1.3 from my fifth transfer and $2 from my sixth transfer on food. I was also hoping to add an animal to my animals and so I spent $2.6 from my sixth transfer on a goat.I have also not been fairing on well due to a stomach complication that arose a while back so I spent $2 on pain medicine for this issue."

"Our biggest struggle is our health. We mostly struggle with malaria in our household. We have 3 children who are epileptic and somehow that makes them prone to malaria. At the beginning of the money and towards the end they are mostly sick. This makes us focus on caring for them and not going out to source money. We end up being food insecure and yet we need food for them to get better after taking medicine, which we don't often afford because we have money to buy."

"I used some of the last transfer to pay the person that's building my house, and I also used the balance money to buy medicine for my coca farm."

"Working as a mason in my area is challenging because house construction projects rarely come by. In a month, I can work at most five days, making a collective income of at most KES 5,000. Budgeting this money to meet monthly household expenses is the greatest nightmare given the expensive living costs. As a countermeasure against completely running out of money, I usually save KES 1,000 per month through a Sacco to help obtain ready funds in times of emergencies. I upheld this norm by depositing the amount into my account from the cash transfer. Also, I used KES 1,000 to supplement some cash I had saved for my son's admission charges to an integrated medicine school in September. I am glad he peacefully started college this month courtesy of the cash transfer. Lastly, since my household had run out of food the previous day, I used the remaining amount on maize flour."

"For the past three years, I have been suffering from tuberculosis. This condition requires me to visit the hospital after every two weeks for check-ups and follow-through by the doctor. By the time I received the transfer, my appointment date was almost approaching and I did not have enough money to visit the medical facility, which is located in Mariakani. So, I used KES 800 from the transfer to take care of the transport to and from the hospital. I supplemented the remaining funds with some savings I had to pay for the medication. I am glad my health is progressing well through the medicine and I have not faced any complications since."

"Ever since I got married 20 years ago, I have not had the chance of owning proper and modern bedding. I spent KES 15,000 to purchase proper bedding for myself. Previously, I was using a traditional thread bed and a mat which requires constant repair and is not comfortable. Also, I boosted my poultry farming by purchasing their feeds and medicine. With the remaining amount, I bought sufficient food since I am still sick and no longer do the charcoal burning that I was doing."

"I also bought food for the eleven family members to help my dad who sell traditional medicine. Thanks to GiveDirectly...Since my daughter got involved in an accident that led to her leg being broken, we have had lots of hospital visits just to seek medication for her affected leg. The last doctor's appointment almost failed due to lack of money. However, I am grateful that GiveDirectly came to my rescue at the nick of time by sending me my portion of cash transfer which immediately facilitated her hospital visit and later on her medication. I could have depended on my father who had been footing all her medical bills but by that time did not have money. Being a single parent with a sick child has never been a walk in the park. I really appreciate the financial support that GiveDirectly extended to me which has seen my daughter's health improve tremendously. Besides, I also bought food for our extended family of eleven members thus assisting my dad who sells traditional medicine as way to make ends meet."

"The challenge I meet is lack of money to educate my children. I don't often have money to pay for their school fees and also uniforms. They go to school hungry and come home to no food as well. Three of my children go to school, two are in standard 1 and the other in 5. There's no feeding program at their school so I have to provide. Which I often don't manage to. When they get sick it's a challenge as well because there's no money for medicine, and that slows down their education."