"Receiving this money means education for my siblings. I will use KES 20,000 from the transfer to educate my siblings in primary school. My father; a casual labourer in the village earning less than KES 400 a day has been facing it rough when it comes to educating my siblings because whatever he earns is spent on food. I will further use KES 15,000 to buy goats for domestic rearing and once the goats multiply, I will exchange them with indigenous dairy cows for milk production both for sell and domestic consumption."

"I am a father of one and have been relying on online writing to feed my family for the past two years. I have also been using it to repay my university fees arrears which accrued over the past four years. From the online writing, I normally get up to KES 25,000 a monthly part is used to feed my family, and the rest on school fees arrears and this has been quite a struggle. When I received the transfers my priority was to buy a heifer. I, therefore, spent KES 24,000 on a heifer because I have been relying on my parent's dairy cow for a cup or two of milk. For me, this has not been enough to feed my family, especially my son who's still very young. But once the heifer reproduces I will have enough milk to feed my family. Secondly, I used the KES 22,000 on clearance of my university fees arrears. As a result, I have now obtained my graduation certificate and university transcripts and can apply for job openings. This is contrary to earlier when I couldn't apply for jobs because interviews require one to have their original academic certificates. Thirdly, I also spent KES 6,000 on the latest clothing fashion for my family. As a result, is happier than before and affection has increased in our marriage. The rest I spent on food and household items. And this has helped reduce my household budget for the past month."

"We spent KES 40000 of our recent transfer on paying school fees for our two children, one who is in college and the other who recently joined secondary school. A lot of money was going to be needed especially for the one who recently joined the secondary school and we didn't know where we were going such a huge sum within a short time. I usually do the business of sawing timber since I have a power saw machine to get money for paying school fees for the children and to meet the needs of my family. We are thus grateful to GiveDirectly for supporting us. With the remaining transfer amount, we spent it on buying iron sheets. We want to construct a store for storing animal feeds for our cows, that is, grass. I usually do not have a place to store them and hence I usually just cut them from the farm and give it directly to them to eat. With the store, I will be able to harvest grass and store it so that they can consume it at a later time, especially during the dry season. It has always been our wish to build the store but we were not in a position to do so since we didn't have the money."

"We spent KES 40000 of our recent transfer on paying off debt. We had bought a piece of land before from our neighbor but we didn't manage to pay the full amount at the time since we didn't have enough money. We decided to buy the piece of land because the one we had was small and we wanted somewhere where could grow animal feeds for our cows. We then spent another KES 9000 on constructing a chicken house. I didn't have one before and hence the few chickens that I used to rear, used to sleep in the kitchen. They used to cause a lot of mess and they used to disturb me whenever I was cooking in the kitchen. It was always my wish to build a chicken house so that I could rear more chickens but I didn't have the money. The chickens have been of great help to me. I usually sell the eggs and the money that I get from the sales usually helps me in buying the essential household items and to buy feeds for them. Other than that, I also usually practice farming where I usually grow crops such as vegetables, maize, and spring onions and sell them during the market day to get some income. With the remaining transfer amount, we spent it on buying fifteen more chickens and we bought feeds for them. Thank you so much GiveDirectly for the support."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is the introduction of a dairy cow to my field that has given me hope of getting an adequate supply of milk in the future. I had been buying milk for a long time and it was expensive for my family. Even though it is not lactating at the moment, I hope that in the next eight months, it will have calved down since I served it a month ago."

"I wouldn't have managed to enroll my three children in school if it was not for the transfers. This was an uphill task for us because of our economic capability and we are grateful that we have been able to achieve this great milestone courtesy of the transfers. My family is also a proud owner two cows and we finally have a sense of belonging to a community which greatly believes in owning livestock."

"I am a mother of three depending majorly on livestock keeping. I currently have four cows producing approximately 5 litres of milk a day selling at an average of KES 40 per litres. I used this income to pay my children's school fees. I have lived in the mad walled house since I got married. I had a dream that I would transform into a semi-permanent but the overwhelming family needs haven't given me the chance to. To me, these cash transfers mean a new house for my family. I am planning to use KES 70000 to build a three-roomed house. This is my dream come true knowing that I will not worry more about how I would build one. I will be more focused on my children's education given that I will have solved the housing."

"Receiving this money means enough capital for farming. Since I completed my secondary education year 2012, I have been practicing subsistence farming which is my main source of income. Due to a lack of enough capital, I cannot do it on a large scale. I have a current capital of KES 3000 that yields KES7000 by planting cabbage and tomatoes. I will invest KES15000 from these transfers as capital which will increase my profits. This will help me meet my family's basic needs and school fees for my child. The rest I will use in purchasing a dairy cow to reduce the expense I am currently incurring in the purchase of milk for consumption. I am excited because GiveDirectly will change my life for the better."

"Receiving this money means improved farming. I am a dairy farmer and it has been my ambition to purchase a chaff cutter to ease in cutting dairy feeds thus increasing milk production. It has been tiresome to cut dairy feeds using hand and I could not cut sufficient feeds for the cow. So when I receive this transfer I will spend KES 45000 to purchase it and the generator since we do not have electricity and I am glad that my family income will then increase."

"I need to buy land where I can establish my home. Living in my father's and has been with a lot of conflicts with my siblings. If I get this transfers, I will use it to buy about a quarter of an acre where I will work for my children's welfare through farming. I have been depending on casual Labour on a tea plantation, but I stopped because I have a chest problem. Lighter work on my farm can easily earn me about KES 300 per day fr selling vegetables that I will grow. I will spend about KES 80,000 on this and then buy a dairy cow at KES 20,000"