"When I was involved in a motorcycle accident, I was at a loss because I had a family that I had to look after and also thought a lot about my recovery. 3 months after, I see a tremendous change in my recovery. Having a supportive wife during this time and seeing a lot of progress on my health has brought me happiness in the last 6 months."

"Receiving this money means a break through to financial in my life. I have a family of 6 children and all are in school. I work for a security company in Bomet town and earn an average of KES.7000 per month. After paying the expenses like food and rental services fee, I only remain with KES. 3000 to take home. This amount is not enough to pay for school fees and meet other basic needs at home. Today i am so thrilled beyond words with this transfers from Givedirectly. I therefore intend to be residing from home this means I will buy a second hand motorcycle to ease my transport cost at KES. 60,000.The remaining amount will go for school fees balance which is KES.40,000."

"My first born son works at Mombasa. Last week he sent me KES 5000 for my personal use. This money helped me get clean water from Palakumi center using motorcycle. The money sent to me brought happiness."

"Receiving this money means a better education for my children. I have one child in secondary level and the other 2 in primary level. Due to lack of enough resources our parents could not educate us and we dropped out of school very early. My desire has been to see my children succeed in education and secure employment and improved better living standard than ours. I plan on using KES 30,000 to pay for their school fees. This will help me save some money from the motorcycle taxi business I am doing to use in development projects that I have. The rest of the amount I will use to build a spacious house so that my children will have a ample space to study." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"The current challenge that I'm faced with, is that in order to feed my family, I have to ride motorbike. The money I get, can't help me to send me to school. And the room that I'm in, is not in a good condition. When the rain is falling, I can't sleep, I have to park all my things in another person house, placed my dishes inorder to reduce the over flooding of the rain in the house." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"Receiving this money means better accommodation for my family of two children. I had purchased building stones, doors, and windows but I did not have the needed capital to build my house. I will use my first transfer to construct a two-bedroom spacious house this will bring me honor. My husband owns a motorcycle which is where we get our daily bread. We will buy new spare parts for the bike so that it can be in stable condition to work daily. With the remaining amount, I will buy a crossbreed cow that provides milk on daily basis. Currently, I have been being buying milk from my neighbors and I will be happy to have my cow too." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"The main challenges that we're facing at the moment are lack of enough food for my family and we do not have proper cooking utensils." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"For a long period, we have lived on a small piece of land, an eighth of an acre. This land was given to me by my parents after I got married in 2019. My goal has been to purchase a bigger piece of land than this to engage in large-scale farming. I plan to use approximately KES 70,000 to add up to my other savings and purchase the land. For the rest of the amount, I will purchase a dairy cow which will be earning me income through the sale of milk." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"Before withdrawing the money, I set a plan on how I was going to spend the money starting from the most demanding items. I had already started a construction project where I was building some rental houses but due to financial constraints I stuck at the block work and I was remaining with the roofing section. In that regard, after withdrawing the money I bought 35 pieces of iron sheets for KES 49000.00. Thereafter I took KES 4000.00 and repaired my husband’s motorbike which we use for ferrying people from one place to another as well as fetching some water. The remaining few amount I used it for food." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"Since my husband and I have been relying on making and selling charcoal, we decided to venture into another business that will boost our living condition. We bought a second-hand tuktuk for KES 40000.00. This will be used for light transport thus earn us a living. I also took KES 3000.00 and paid school fees for my primary school children, paid a debt of KES 3000.00 which I borrowed from a friend and also bought some food for the family." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)