"Cattles ( I want to involve ) My goal is to become a successful farmer especially in animal husbandry. Therefore, I used the money I have received from Givedirectly to pay school fees and to pay for cow as a startup."

"After a long day of working on my farm in the scorching sun, I decided to go home, have lunch and relax. It was in that late afternoon when my neighbour appeared at my home to inquire whether I had received cash from GiveDirectly. I grabbed my phone and quickly checked. I didn't see any text at the moment but in less than a minute I had a message tone. On checking, I saw a text showing that I have received cash from Segovia technologies. At that time my wife wasn't at home and I couldn't hold back the good news. I called her and gave her the good news and she was overjoyed. She finally realized her dream of owning a dairy cow would be achieved. I'm grateful for the support."

"In the past days we have been able to produce a little more than expected from our land and Recently we are able to get what to eat everyday and we have been able to get people to hire us in their land which allowed us to collect enough to pay school fees for our siblings. Our cow are giving us enough milk to use and this is what brought us happiness being able to see my siblings getting the opportunity i don't have now of being able to study is a great achievement."

"We always need fertiliser to use in the farms, we will buy a cow of $300. We will also buy a pig of $50 which can give birth to 4-5 pigs at ago. Not forgetting about our health, we will buy health insurance of $30 for the whole family. As our government always mobilize us to live in a good place by having lights. We took solar energy on credit of $57, we will pay that as well. These days the season of farming was affected by too much rain which resulted into not harvesting as usual, we will buy foods of $50. We have 6 children who attend classes at school, we will pay their school fees of $125 for all per year. The remaining amount, we will put them in the saving group to use them in the future."

"As our family doesn't have any land, we hope to buy it on $700 and add some to my small business like $40. The remaining $60 will be used in buying foods for my family. I also need livestock but for now, I know that I can approach my friends who have cows or other domestic animals to give one to take care of it and get a profit of fertiliser from it. If my business goes well, I will definitely buy my livestocks."

"I have always had an interest in trying to grow my farm by investing more in buying a couple of farm animals preferably which include poultry and goats especially since cows are way more costly. Therefore, this time around after I received the transfers I went to ahead to use KES 2,700 in acquiring a goat. Afterwards, I ended up using the remaining balance of KES 700 to ensure we had food in the house so I bought three packets of maize flour."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is the investments that I made. Having paid school fees arears plus that of an entire month have made me feel some form of relief. The dairy cow that I bought as well shall go a long way in enabling me meet most of my needs in future. This has made me and my family very happy."

"Clearing the debts owed to us for a piece of land that we are ready staying in was the biggest difference in our daily lives as a family. We had started leaving in fear and stress was gripping in as days went by. Even though the seller was not so hard on us, we always felt we should clear the debts and live in peace as a family. I fees so much at peace now that we have cleared this debt and we are even looking forward to buying our first dairy cow once we receive our second transfer. We could not buy any livestock before since we were living in a very small piece of land that would not allow us make such investments."

"The money I received from GiveDirectly has greatly impacted us because it empowered me to acquire a dairy cow. I was previously unable to execute this dream because of unstable financial sources. That my child and I can no longer go to bed on an empty stomach makes me happy. We will always be appreciative of the help that made our lives happier."

"My short-term goal is to buy two dairy cows which would cost me $600 and sell the milk in the neighborhood. I have been struggling to pay school fees for my seven children and with this stream of income I would not strain to put my children through school"