"GiveDirectly can help people with money, for them to pay their school fees, start business, develope their community and to also provide food for my family and I. GiveDirectly don't take food nor water or anything from people."

"GiveDirectly can help people financially, for them to be able to improve they and their family lives, to minimize poverty. By building decnte house and supporting their children in school. GiveDirectly don't expect anything like food, water etc from people."

"We spent KES 31000 of the recent transfer on buying a 5000-liter water tank. We bought the tank because, in our area, we usually experience a prolonged dry season which usually makes the nearby rivers dry up. One thus has to go to the main river which is very far to fetch water. We do not have a donkey to help us carry the water and hence we have to carry it on our backs. We had a water tank but its capacity is small. The water usually gets finished after a few days when the rains are gone. We have always wanted to buy another tank but due to financial constraints, we were not able to. My husband is casually employed at a cloth-selling shop and I am currently jobless. I used to teach at a private school but when I gave birth to my youngest child, I never went back. The money that we used to get paid is little and it would have only been enough to pay the child's caregiver if I had hired one. We are thus happy and with no worries, because it has rained and we have managed to collect enough water for our consumption and animal use. I also spent another KES 12000 on clearing my college fees balance. I did so so that they could give me my certificate. I wanted the certificate so that I could apply for jobs. I am glad that I got it and I have managed to apply for a job at the county government. With the remaining transfer money, we used it in buying food and some more clothes for our children."

"Before GiveDirectly, I had a 3,000 liters water tank in which water would be used up fast. This forced me to borrow water from the neighborhood every time. So when the transfers came, I spent KES 38,000 on my transfers on a 5,000 liters water tank. This has helped in the storage of more water and as a result, there is no more water scarcity in my house. Secondly, I used KES 10,000 on the completion of my house which I had started using the first transfers. Lastly, I spent KES 5,000 on the latest clothing fashion and the rest on food. This is because I normally rely on my husband who does casual labor for food."

"Finding clean water for use in the household is very difficult here. Even though we occasionally get piped water from a government water project, its chlorine content used in treating it is too high for consumption in my view. I a concerned that drinking the water may cause some diseases. I need a water tank that I will use to collect and store rainwater with a capacity, of 3500 litres. This amount of water will be enough for my use at home."

"Receiving this money means an improvement in my dairy farm where I will build a concrete water tank. I need this tank to store water that I occasionally receive from a government water supply project. Having enough water will boost my milk production and maintain it at about KES 40 litres per day. This will translate to about KES 1600 per day. I am keen to secure this income by having enough water all through the different drought seasons."

"When I received the transfers, my major challenge was buying a liter of milk each day. This is because as a single mum of three I normally rely on casual labor for food. I, therefore, spent KES 32,000 on a dairy cow which has reduced milk expenses. Before, I used to buy half a liter each day for KES 25 after getting KES 200 from casual labor. At times we used to take black tea when there was no casual labor. Additionally, I spent KES 7,200 on two bags of maize of which the remainder can sustain us for the next month. This is because my children are still young therefore do not eat much. Similarly, I spent KES 3, 500 on durable cooking pots and household utensils. This is because I only had a few. I also bought KES 3000 on 10 chicken layers This will help in supplementing household expenses. In addition, I also invested KES 1,300 in merry-go-round monthly contributions. I also bought the latest clothing fashion for KES 8,000 because earlier we could only afford second-hand clothes. Lastly, I bought a 210 liters water container at KES 1,500. This has helped in the storage of rainwater and therefore I seldom go to the river."

"My initial plan was to start up a retail shop but it did not work out because of insecurity cases, so I invested 50000 KES of the second transfer on a second-hand motorcycle. I had spent the first transfer on farming so as I currently pay attention to the farm activities, I have assigned someone to operate the motorcycle who pays me 350 KES at the end of the day. The additional 350 KES daily is a boost to my household. Besides, we no longer struggle to walk for long distances in search of water as was the case. The motorcycle operator brings us water in the morning hours then later continues with the motorcycle taxi services. The remaining 2800 KES I spent on some of the foodstuffs for my family."

"I have a challenge of buying milk for my young family. It cost me KES 100 in day which is very expressive because I don't have a stable job. Give Directly money will be a blessing to me because I'll buy a cow that will sustain my family needs. I'm also planning to buy a tank that would help me harvest rain water to safe us the hustle of looking for water far away. I'm impressed that Give Directly money will help me solve the problem."

"I was married here two years ago and have been living in this village ever since. I have seen heartbreaking situations of dire lack of water supply that normally push people to a level of consuming unsafe water fetched from water pans. It's so sad that most of the time such seasons are followed by outbreak of different diseases like cholera and the rest of them. I would not wish to get myself into this and therefore receiving this money means breakthrough as I will create water reservoir that would take me through all dry seasons if possible. I plan to spend 40000 KES on a three thousand litres tank that would serve me at the moment given that I'm still childless and only living with my husband. I will then spend the rest of the money to buy a powerful sewing machine to replace the small one I'm currently using that keeps breaking down every now and then. This way it interferes a lot with my tailoring job to an extent that I can't work continuously to be able to make profit."