"When I received my transfer, I bought a water tank worth KES 17000 with a capacity of 23000 liters. I settled on this so that I will be using it to harvest rainwater during the rainy season. With this, I will not have to walk for a long distance looking for water for domestic use. Also, I spent KES 20000 to pay school fees for my children who had been sent back home. I had not been able to pay their fees on time since I depend on dairy farming to support my family and in paying school fees for our four children and this money is not always enough. I spent the remaining amount on food, clothes, and some school necessities that were needed."

"In my own opinion, GiveDirectly did well by giving out financial aid to people. Because of this, those who did not have iron-roofed houses have been able to build them and are currently having access to clean water for domestic use, especially during this rainy season. I do not see anything that they did not do well."

"My home is located near a semi-permanent river where a lot of water flows for a quarter of the year. I had aspired to start small-scale irrigation farming. My new goal is to purchase a generator water pump and pipes. I intend to start growing maize, kales, and tomatoes for my household consumption. Moreover, I will sell the extra produce to earn a living to support my kid's education."

"I walk long distances like 1 hour walk to and from to get 1 jerricans of water, which costs 10 KSH, and a day we need like 10 jerricans for washing, cooking, and drinking. So everyday we need to have 100 KSH, which is not possible because nobody is employed and we depend on charcoal burning Business, which at the moment the business is not picking at all. My husband also is a trained carpenter, but is not fully employed because of lack of opportunities, so it's a challenge for him to provide basic needs of the family."

"I used both the first and second transfer in building my house. For the first transfer, I needed to buy cement, which I did. What was left over was used to pay the construction workers working at my house and to buy water. I had bought some stones when I received the second transfer but I did not have money to transport them. When I received the KES 3000, I added KES 1000 and they were brought to the site."

"I have plans of starting agribusiness specifically raring chicken and and growing vegetables. Because the area is too dry, I plan to do this through irrigation either using pipe water or rain water. Considering the cost on other side, I think I'll settle for rain water where I'll add water gutters around the roof of my house to be collecting the water during rainy seasons. I'll then store this water in either an underground concrete tank or plastic tanks again depending on which one is cheaper. This means reliable source of income for me and my family."

"I have desired to own proper beddings since I was sleeping on a small traditional bed with sacks as beddings. This was uncomfortable as well as embarrassing whenever I received an important visitor. I spent KES 10,500 of my recent transfer to purchase a modern bed and mattress, currently, I am happy sleeping on nice beddings something that has installed dignity. In addition, I used KES 25,000 to support the education of my 3 children, I paid all the term two school fees. They are now learning without any interruption. I spent part of the remaining amount to purchase two goats for KES 5000. I was remaining with some cash that I used to buy food and water for the family."

"The second transfer was so transforming that I managed to obtain construction materials and initiated the construction of a large chicken coop with the plan of introducing more birds to the brood. I had to bring it to an abrupt stop when my husband purchased two large water tanks that we had to construct a proper base that needed some sand, cement, and also gravel. I could not resist diverting the little amount that I was left with since I equally needed the water storage facilities installed. At the moment, I am still working on the completion of the coop thus no new goal that I could have thought of."

"With KES 22000, I bought a 3000 liter water tank and did an installation with labor inclusive at KES 6000. For the longest time, we had been walking a long distance to fetch water which was time-consuming and strenuous. I am happy now that I can harvest water during the rainy season and it can take me for a long time. I also paid KES 12000 school fees for my primary school-going children. They now study without being sent home to collect fees. With KES 3000, I bought school uniforms and shoes since the ones they had were worn out so I had to replace them so that the children would look neat. With the remaining amount, I bought food for my four family members."

"The roof of my house no longer holds the rain waters like before. During the rainy season my bed usually gets wet from the leakages in the roof. Now that I have this amount of money, I will buy zinc with the recent transfer I received. I believe that when my husband is covered with zinc instead of thatch I will have a better sleep at night when ever it is raining."