"The biggest difference is i now sleep in a my own house,this is something i ever wished for and thank GOD that i have achieved it." (Occupation: Small business)

"If I'm successful to receive money from Givedirectly, I will use some to pay my children tuition fees and add the balance to my business money which will bring joy to me. The reason I want to use some of the money to pay my children tuition fees and start a business is because, the money I earn from the bread I make is not enough to pay my children fees and make a large business . My daughter is not attending school this year because I don't have money to pay her fees. Since the death of my husband, I have been the only person struggling to Carter for my family." (Occupation: Small business)

"If I am successfully enrolled in to Give Directly's Cash transfer program, I want to use some of the money to pay the tuition of my children as well as complete my house that my husband and I were building. As you can see my late husband and I were living in this house that we try building but unfortunately for me, he just died one week ago, so currently, I don't have any one to help my children, that's why I said I will use some of the money to pay their school fees." (Occupation: Small business)

"I want to fix my house, pay my children school fees and start a new business. Right now i don't have a spouse to help me take care of my children. I have to credit dry fish to sell and us the profits to buy food for my family." (Occupation: Small business)

"Our first priority now is to expand our business; to get more goods on our market table so we can support ourselves and our children. Secondly, we are planning to build our own house now so once we get this transfer those are the things we gonna do." (Occupation: Small business)

"My husband and I want to fully complete our house which is our first priority now. Secondly, we need to send our children to school and to establish a business that will enable us to continue supporting ourselves and our children."

"Being an orphan, I have my young brother who is now in college to take care of. To ensure that his learning continues smoothly I paid KES 15000.00 for him. Since I didn’t have a reliable source of income, I opted to buy a motorbike for KES 36000.00 so as to start a new business in the transport industry. I also bought 2 sacks of maize for the family to have access to food. Being tired of sleeping on sacks, I decided to buy mattress for KES 2000.00."

"My desire was to rear livestock at some point in my life. On receiving the first transfer, I bought 4 goats for KES 12000.00. I decided to buy the goats since our area is too dry to accommodate cows. I also bought 2 mattresses for KES 8700.00 because I used to sleep on sacks and boxes. Since my children are growing, I opted to construct an additional room to my house to accommodate them well. I bought 10 pieces of iron sheets and 3 ridges for KES 10250.00, thereafter, I paid school fees for my 2 primary school children who were required KES 6000.00 for the whole year." (Occupation: Small business)

"It was around 10am when I was at the field grazing my goats when I heard a message in my phone. Upon checking, it was the 1st transfer from GiveDirectly. I felt so happy to an extent that I didn’t feel how hot the sun was terrorizing my skin in the where there were no shades." (Occupation: Small business)

"If I received the cash transfer from Give Directly ,I will build my own house,so my children and I can have a place of our own, the house I'm currently living in is for my uncle, I don't have much convenient and privacy in it. I will also used some of the money to paid my kids school fees, because my kids are not currently in school,and I will also used the used the balance Money to do my business, to continue supporting my kids."