"Receiving this money means a business boost to me, I rear chicken in my compound for sale. I have been having problems with where to keep them when they lay eggs. I will fence a farm where they can stay comfortable and breed easily. I will increase my chicken stock from 10 to 100 with KES 20,000 and also buy chicken feeds. With the ready customers, I can be able to sell eggs and meat to my village people. With the profit for this business, I will save it at Imarika bank and ask for a loan in the future. With the second transfer, I will look for a piece of land 50 by 100 which goes for KES 40,000 as a future investment for my children. For the remaining amount, I will buy food to feed my family of 6."

"I have 3 children that I am providing for and I am a single mother. We have been living at my parent's house which was so challenging up until last year in August when I bought this land and built this structure for my family. The land is approximately 0.1 acres and it is too small because we also depend on the cultivation of crops to meet our needs as a family. I would like to use the transfers to buy 0.3 more acres of land as an extension of this one. This will enable us to produce vegetables for sale and our consumption thus cutting on expenditures. It shall also enable us to keep some livestock (a cow and some chicken) which we will sell their products and make approximately KES.2000 monthly."

"I am happy I am healthy, and my children are fine too. I have always wanted to raise some domestic animals so that I can rely on when I have some emergency, I managed to buy a goat and a chicken and this is only the beginning. I believe with the trasfers,I will be able to raise some more."

"I celebrated Christmas. I worked for a teacher as a house helper for 2 months . She paid me KES 2000 just 2 days before Christmas day. I bought a Chicken and celebrated Christmas with my daughter. What brought joy and happiness is that I did the job and finished it 2 months back but was paid 2 days before Christmas. I celebrated and also bought new clothes for my daughter."

"I slaughtered a chicken and enjoyed with rice during the Christmas.This brought joy and happiness to me seeing my family had reached Christmas of another year.This brought joy and happiness to me as a mother seeing all my children together in my house."

"I have become economically inactive and dependant on my children who also have their families to attend to. I have a few chickens that lay eggs where I sell to purchase food. Egg production is not consistent also due to the lack of feeds for the hens. An egg is sold at KES 10 and sometimes requires me to have a number of it to be sufficient to purchase a food item that may not be available. This is worrying me that my immunity might go down due to lack of food."

"I live in a single house that is grass thatched with my 7 children. I feel like my husband and I are not getting the privacy that we ought to have because of sharing the same roof with these children. Three of them are above the age of 15 and our culture does not allow parents and grown children to sleep in one house. I also rear chicken that spends the night in the same house and their droppings leave the whole house smelly even after a thorough cleaning. I am a peasant farmer and I depend on my 0.5-acre farm to get income and due to persistent drought plants wither before harvest. I desire to build a spacious house of approximately 32 iron sheets at a cost of KES 29000. Receiving this money will give my family a decent place to call home."

"After a long struggle to raise school fees fr my children, I was glad to receive support from GiveDirectly. With my two sons in secondary school at the moment, I ensured that I cleared all the KES29000 that was required for the whole term. At the moment, I feel relieved and can now concentrate on other projects that can still generate income and in turn, will boost my savings before paying for the next term. I also inject KES2400 into the poultry project that I had been running after bringing in six more chickens and KES3100 on a chain link that facilitated the expansion of the chicken coop. Even though the project is still small, I am hoping to see it grow as I had been saving a lot from the eggs I had been selling and later using the same amount to bring in more chicks. With my family of six, I also have four orphans that I had been supporting and living together making my family number go up to ten. Providing enough foodstuff had never been easy and such a great opportunity could not pass without ensuring an additional purchase of foodstuff. I spent KES8000 on two sacks of maize and a 10KES pack of rice. I am grateful for this far, and I am still looking forward to the second transfer."

"My family is growing and I am going to be a mother of four children soon. I have no asset or any source of income to sustain my family save for the land that I have. Receiving this money will enable me to do poultry farming since it requires less input and time to do so. With poultry farming, I will be able to sell eggs and chicken and get money to buy food, and pay school fees for my children."

"Last year was very tough for me because of the drought which dominated it. However, December came with good tidings since the rains showered. We had a reason to celebrate as a family. My husband bought chicken which we enjoyed the best meal of the year together as a family. We also had another celebration to welcome the new year together with the larger extended family. The festive season brought me a lot of joy. For a moment, I set aside my troubles to celebrate."