"I have been supplying water to the nearest school where one of my children schools and I usually get paid at the end of each month. They usually deduct 50% that goes to school fees from the amount that I am paid. I have six children in different levels of education and despite getting help from my spouse in paying school fees for them, they are usually in and out of school most of the time. It has been my wish to start a poultry-keeping project as a way of diversifying my sources of income. When I received my transfer, I spent KES 20000 building a chicken coop and used KES 6000 to pay school fees for my son to avoid being sent back home. In addition, I spent KES 20000 on the purchase of a dairy cow as an investment for my family. This will lead to an increase in the income from milk sales when it reproduces and I will be able to use this money in educating our children."

"In the last 5 months, I started poultry farming and this has brought happiness in my life. Initially, I started with only 3 chickens which have grown to over 40 chickens now. At least I can collect 10 eggs a day which has greatly helped in supplementing the little we get from my husband. We can meet basic household needs such as sugar, flour, and milk without much struggle."

"I previously used to earn KSH 4000 per month to help in raising livestock for my employer. When the drought struck our village, most of the livestock died. My employer had no choice but to end my employment contract, leaving me jobless. I have spent the better part of last year digging in my farm, but without rain I could harvest nothing from the farm. When I received my first transfer, I spent KSH 1500 to buy 5 chicken. I bought the chicken as I want to venture into poultry farming. Since I have the knowledge to rear different type of livestock, I want to try it. Besides buying the chicken, I spent KSH 1000 to buy food for my family. With no job, I had no money and to prevent my family from starving, buying the food was a wise decision for me. For the remaining KSH 500, I ordered more chicken and made a promise to pay the remaining amount once I received my next transfer."

"Upon receiving the money, after some few days I decided that I was going to buy a hen so that I could add to the chicken that I already had in my farm because I genuinely wanted to begin poultry farming on large scale and take them to the market for sell. The hen cost me KES 300. The other remaining part of my balance I decide I would cater for tuition fee since two of my children were literally on the verge of being kicked out of school because I had pending balances in the school fees. I gave them KES 600 to be split between the both of them equally. I was left with about KES 2,100 which I used in purchasing a bag of maize flour that contained a dozen packets and used an additional KES 400 to buy four kilograms of beans so that we would have a meal in the house. The remaining KES 300 I used it to acquire ten gallons of drinking water since we experienced a shortage back in the village."

"I spent part of my second transfer on clearing school fees of KES 10000 for my four children who are in primary schools. I am happy that they will be able to sit for their exams without any interference. Also, I bought new clothes for my kids since the initial ones were old and it has been affecting their self-esteem. As their mother, I am happy that this was settled in good time. To add to that, I bought chicken at KES 1200 which I am now keeping on my homestead as an asset. With the remaining amount of money, I bought foodstuffs for my family and other household items like utensils and cutlery."

"The funds have been very helpful. Using them, I bought myself some chickens and also paid my children's school fees. So in my opinion, give directly has done extremely well and there's nowhere that they have done badly."

"I am a consistent farmer and a housewife blessed with three children. Fetching water from the stream has been a hectic task in my life, this is because the stream is quite distant, Thus upon receiving my transfer I prioritised purchasing a water tank worth KES 20,000, I knew this would help me in harvesting rainwater, I was unable to purchase one due to financial constraints and other responsibilities like school fees, I then used the remaining amount to purchase chicken at KES 1500 and then seats at KES 3150 and lastly I bought foodstuffs and clothes. I am thankful for the support that changed our living standards."

"I exhausted the first transfer just when I was past halfway on the construction of my new house. The materials then were very expensive, and the budget I initially had was a bit strained. On receiving the second transfer, I had to spend KES 20000 more on the completion. I am glad that the interior is now well furnished with new pieces of furniture used by my children occupying the new structure. I also cleared school fees payment with KES 17000 for my child who is currently in secondary school. I spent KES5000 of the remaining on settling the debts I had with the shopkeeper, constructed a chicken coop and brought in chicken and a total cost of KES 12500, and spent the remaining amount on foodstuff and other household goods that we were missing then."

"After receiving the money I consulted two of my relatives and suggested that we start a savings committee where we contributed money and distributed it monthly to a particular person so as we would have a larger amount of cash compared to the one we had and could invest it in individual projects that needed large sums of money. Fortunately they were down for it and I was the first person to receive the money that month so I contributed KES 2,000 on the money I had and plus what I got from the others I received KES 6,000 in total. My initial plan was to renovate my house with money but due to drought, water has been a predicament and so I decided to put the money away until the rainy seasons come or when I have enough money to buy water in order to finance the project. I was left with about KES 1,000 from the funds received from GiveDirectly so I took KES 300 and bought a chicken, then used KES 300 and paid tuition fee for my grandchild who was in kindergarten since at the time the parents had no finances. I was left with about KES 400 where I used KES 300 and bought maize flour and sugar then the balance KES 100 I took it as offering to church ."

"Give directly has done well. Thanks to the funds, I now own a goat and some chickens. I have not seen anywhere it has done badly."