"In the last six months our crops yield more than we expected .That makes me happy that I was able to pay my children school fees and established a small red plantain chips business."

"If I'm successful to receive the transfer I intend to seek treatment for my eyes. I'm a blind woman who is hopeful of regaining my sight. I'm not comfortable with my current situation because I'm not able to make my own farm to provide food for my children and pay their school fees. I would have loved to see and be able to work for myself, raise money to pay for my children school fees. But due to the Lost of my sight, I'm unable to do anything of my own."

"I have three children now that I am sponsoring in school. Last year I had difficulty in paying my children school fees because I am not wrking to support all of them in school. So with the cash transfer from Givedirectly, I will use the money to support all of my children in school."

"We depend on our two cows for family income that we use to sustain our family needs. I get KES 90 per day from selling 3 litres of milk which is hardly enough to cater for all the needs and sometimes we lack. My family is still young and I would want to invest more on livestock keeping to secure their future and be in a position to pay for their school fees. I will therefore buy another two cows worth KES 30,000 each so as to double my income from KES 90 per day to KES 180 per day. This will be a stable source of income enough to support my children education needs."

"Past two days my family had been lacking food. Waking up not knowing what my children will consume for the day is stressful. The casual job that my husband does brings approximately 1500KES in a month this serves us for just two weeks the remaining weeks of the month are hell to us. Among my seven children, five of them are still in primary level and they need school fees to continue to attend classes. Getting a job that fits my education level becomes hard. I have been left with subsistence farming as the last hope, the prolonged drought of this area has made the farm to be barren. Sometimes my family lacks food and ends up seeking help from neighbors something that ashames."

"Taking care of my family is not an easy task. I am just twenty-three years with a burden to provide for the family of nine. This means paying school fees, feed them, medication, and buying clothes for them. As the breadwinner, the daily earning from scraping palm trees is 500 KES this is sufficient for only food leaving other needs unattended. The work is dangerous, tiresome, and not guaranteed to. My vision is to have my own family but the responsibilities lead me to cease the plans. I wish to leave my current job my illiteracy level holds me back, my prayers are someday all will be well."

"My firstborn son completed form 4 last year and he performed well but due to lack of money I have not been able to take him to college. The business of selling palm wine here in the village brings little income that is hard to afford to pay school fees, first of all, I plan to save and take my child to college using the GiveDirectly transfers to have a bright future."

"I am a single mum of two kids. I was once married but due to misunderstandings, we ended up parting ways. I had to come back to my father's home since then, life has not been easy on my side. My ex-husband never bothers to extend assistance to the kids. I was left with the burden of raising the kids alone. My family rejected me and denied me the freedom of accessing any family property. The business of selling firewood is what I depend on gives me 100 KES in a day. The firstborn son is in grade three and his school fees need to be paid. Therefore obtaining a dependent source of income has been great hardship in my life."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am now a proud owner of livestock; I own a dairy cow and a pair of oxen. I settled for them because it has been my dream to one day own one or two for a while now but I couldn't afford them due to my unsustainable source of income. With the dairy cow that I recently bought using GiveDirectly funds, I am positive that very soon I will be getting plenty of liters of milk and am hoping to start a business of selling the milk in the nearby dairy shops. I aim to save the money in my bank account which will later help me in paying school fees for my children once they transition to secondary schools. I believe this is a brilliant idea since getting other assistance in the future is not guaranteed. In addition to that, the pair of oxen will greatly help me preparing my farm on time and this will enable me to utilize my whole farm which was not possible back in the day. I have been depending on my family as a source of labor which was not but since my children are still young we could not plough even an acre due to the hard clay soil. This also assures me of getting lots of farm harvests in the future. Finally, I will be hiring them for my neighbors at a fee, this will be an additional"

"My family operates on 1500 KES a month, an amount that is supposed to cater for all our basic needs. With the difficult economic situation, living on such a budget is not a walk in the park. My child cannot even put up with school because I cannot comfortably raise the 1200 KES that is required every term. Sometimes I am torn between buying food and paying school fees."