"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."

"Receiving this money means good education for my children. I am blessed with 5 children. All these children attend school. One of my children is totally deaf and dumb. She attends school for the physically handicapped in Kwale county. The school fees for this particular child ranges from 15,000 KES to 20,000 KES per year. The rest of the children are still in primary school. I pay a total of 20,000 KES for their school fees per year. Raising approximately 40,000 KES per year is not a joke. My husband is currently jobless. I am also doing a small business of selling fast foods such as potato and cassava chips. I roughly make a profit of 200 KES. With a family of 5 children. This income is never sufficient. All the amount goes into buying food and purchasing other essential things such as soaps. This means, nothing remains for savings that can help me pay school fees for the children. As at now, my only focus is on my children's education. My plan is to use the transfers I will be receiving to continuously pay for my children's tuition fees as they keep on advancing to their next academic classes."

"The challenge I am currently facing is lack of money. I don't have any kind of employment that can generate a steady income. I used to buy and sell the local alcohol but due to lack of enough money to buy the alcohol, the business collapsed. Currently, I depend on my 3 sons who work as motorcycle taxi attendants ( boda boda). The income that they get is also not sufficient for all of us. In some cases, I lack money to even buy laundry soap. Right now, I have a daughter who is supposed to be in school. Due to school fee arrears, she was denied access to school. It makes me sad seeing my daughter stay at home due to lack of school fees but I have nothing to do. I have no money."