""I feel happy and was dancing after seeing my mobile money message. Seeing myself at this young age living in poverty.I am presently living in a mud house and tarch roof but this money will enable me to change my living standards"." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"Receiving this money means spacious house for my family. This is because I am now sharing a one bedroom house with my five children which does not offer privacy. I am planning to spend KES 30,000 to build a bigger house. I will also utilize the remaining transfers to pay school fees for my daughter who is in grade two as well as buy five goats which do well in our area. I will use the second transfers to pay deposit for a motorcycle. Besides the balance will go to boosting my charcoal business."

"I have always wanted to be a commercial poultry farmer but I have not realized the dream because of a lack of finances to start it off. My husband is a motorcycle rider, earning at most KES 500 a day, which is not enough to meet the needs of our family of three. With this money, I plan to construct a poultry house, fence it off, buy improved chicks and feeds. It will cost me approximately KES 20,000. Receiving this money means I'll be able to earn income through the sale of eggs and chicken, therefore, meeting my family's needs. I will be so happy to see this dream come true. For the rest of the amount, I plan to purchase a dairy cow as we do not own any at the moment." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"I live with my sons since my husband left and one of them unfortunately broke his leg so he barely moves, meanwhile drives a motorcycle as taxi but since he does not own it he has to work in shifts with some of his friends so at times he comes back home with something and sometime he does not. Therefore the money enabled me to also lend a hand with the house responsibilities and not always rely on the children since there is another source of income."

"My first born was born with deformit , I have been having rough time growing her up because she cannot care for herself despite that she is 16 years old. Getting food for my family is also a big problem to me and my husband because we depend on charcoal burning business in order to put food on the table. There is a water scarcity of which it has become a disaster in our area. All water pans have dried up and we depend on buying water from motorcycle operators which is very expensive. One jerican costs 100 KES which is too expensive to me and sometimes we go to bed hungry because of luck of both water and food."

"I grew up in abject poverty as a young boy in this village. I have not known what a good or smooth is like ever since I was born. My parents were peasant farmers and their income was not sufficient to take me and my siblings to school. This contributed to the continuation of this trend of poverty from my parents to my family. My children at the moment have all dropped out of school and are out in town trying out casual jobs. This is something that saddens me a lot but I have no control over it. I am also still struggling at my age to do motorcycle business and at my age, it wearies me a lot. I get sick most of the time because of the occupational risks that come with riding a motorcycle for long. I desire to settle down and focus on livestock keeping at the moment since old age also is approaching when I will not be able to do a lot I will therefore spend these transfers to purchase livestock which will be more like a long-term investment for me. I will stay at home and manage these livestock."

""When I eceive this money, I plan to complete the construction of my house. My family currently live in my father's house. My father gave me one room in his house because we didn't have a place to stay. However, the house is roofed with palm thatch. Palm thatch roofs are prone to leakage. Whenever rain falls, we literally park our belongings in one corner of the room to prevent it from getting wet. We started constructing our own house at the beginning of the year. However, due to limited finance, the project has been paused for more than four months. So when I receive this money, I will use a portion of it to complete our house project. Next, I Will open a provision shop to help multiply the money. Currently, there is only one provision shop in Gbai Town. This shop can barely serve the needs of residence of the town. So I will use the remaining money to open a provision shop. This will not only reduce the burdens of Monopoly, but also help me to raise money for my kids tuation."" (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"My wife has been having a difficult time going to the river to fetch water for domestic use since apart from being old and unable to do strenuous activities, the river where we fetch water is a bit far from where we live. Because of this, we were at times forced to hire a motorcycle to help us ferry water from the river. Upon receiving my transfer, I decided to spend KES 20000 to buy a water tank with a storage capacity of 3000 liters so that I can be using it to harvest rainwater for domestic purposes. Also, I spent KES 10000 to pay school fees for my son who is in form three since I did not want him being sent back home, KES 18000 to buy a heifer as an investment that I can later use in paying school fees for my son when he finally joins college. Using the remaining KES 6000, I bought some foodstuffs for my family as a way of celebrating GiveDirectly's impact on our lives."

"Getting good education and better are my 2 two (2) biggest challenges right now." (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)

"I fell so happy for the first time in my life to get free money from such NGO, this had never happen in my home town from the day I was born" (Occupation: Motorcycle or bicycle taxi)