"I am so grateful for the transfer I received. This means a lot to me and my life has changed. I am currently building a house which I couldn't do on my own. My beddings have been improved too because I bought new ones." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"I spent most of my second transfer on building another kitchen. I had an old kitchen which was grass-thatched and mud-walled. My wife was no longer able to smear it because of her old age. Although I had always wanted to construct another kitchen, I was not in a position to due to lack of money. I used to work at a tea company before and when I retired, I used my savings on buying a motorcycle. I hence usually do the motorcycle business of transporting people from one place to another. The money that I make from the business, most of it usually goes to the purchase of foodstuffs such as cabbages which I supply to my son's school as payment of school fees. I am therefore so much grateful to GiveDirectly because I was able to achieve my dream of building another kitchen. I built a kitchen that is made of wooden planks, iron-roofed, and cemented on the floor. My wife thus no longer gets tired of smearing mud on the walls and the floor of the kitchen."

"I have a plan to buy more goats for rearing. I plan to get the money for buying the goats from my motorcycle business. I usually make about KES 400 per day from the business out of which I save some of it by making merry-go-round contributions to a self-help group that I am in. I am waiting for my turn to receive the contributions and I plan to use part of the money on buying more goats. I have been rearing a few of them and I have seen their benefit. They multiply quickly in number. I plan to sell some of them in the future and use the money on other things such as buying more land."

"I want to get a new motorcycle for business purpose so I can be able to get food money for me and my family everyday and I want to get zinc over my house so once I get this money I will do these things."

"To build my house and when the house complete, I buy a motorcycle for commercial purpose"

"I bought a piece of land half an acre on credit worth 60,000 KES and I paid a deposit of 40,000 KES. I have a remaining balance of 20,000 KES. The debt has stayed for 2 years now because of the current economic situations prevailing in our area which made me have hard time to save money from my motorcycle business. Receiving this money means I will be able to pay the debt of the land and also add another piece of land so that I can be able to do farming in my own land. I believe I will be happy if I will be staying in my own land."

"I have a grandchild who is in secondary school. His parents struggle to pay the school fees. His father works in the motorcycle taxi business. The money he gets only supports the family in buying food. This leaves him with very little to support his son's education. I paid part of the school fees for my grandchild using the money I received."

"I would carry 60 liters of water to school in one trip using the bicycle and I would at times slide and be forced to seek help from the passersby. This was tiresome and time-consuming since I had to make not less than 10 trips in a day and pushing the bike uphill is not an easy task. With the motorcycle that I recently acquired using my transfer, my work has been made easier and I now make 5 trips. This has enabled me to earn extra money at the end of the day unlike before since I always offer taxi services to people after I am through with my daily routine of supplying water to the school in the morning."

"My name is Jacob Bowier ID-05023 from Tenneh Town, Dowein District Bomi County Liberia. I felt so happy when I received my cash transfer because I was in debt from my son lost motorcycle, and I was so worried over they means to get money to built house for my self"

"No. I don't have any new goals. I have always wanted to buy motorcycle. My husband is not working. I've not been working neither making busines. Things got so hard on us. I was privileged to get enrolled on the GiveDirectly program. I'm so happy for this opportunity. Hopefully when I get rest of the transfers I will buy motorcycle for my husband to run traffic. I'm grateful that our lives will improve for the better."