"My family and I live in a thatch house. We are normally affected by the heavy storm and the entire house is flooded with water during the rainy period. In many instances, I have to clamb up the roof to set old buckets and other materials just to cover up some leakages or the holes on the roof. This has affected my children's health and my planned was to build a better house and afford my children quality education. I am very excited to let you know that the tranfer will be use to buy a bundle of zinc and change my roof. I will also use some of the money to initiate the new construction and the rest will be use for my children's education."

"Receiving this money means better housing for my family. We currently stay in a grass thatched house which is not only small but we cannot harvest any rainwater whenever it rains. We are forced to track for hours to fetch water from the river, which is tiresome and time-consuming. I have always wished I could own a bigger iron-roofed house which can accommodate us and also collect rainwater. I plan to spend KES 35,000 to construct the house. The rest of the amount I will use to purchase a dairy cow which is a great investment for me. This means I will not be purchasing milk for my family and the extra milk I will sell to my neighbors to earn an income."

"I fell into a pit some time back, this affected my right knee making it difficult for me to engage in heavy family duties like fetching water or firewood. I will use KES 30000 to seek proper medication. This money will also help me buy a plastic water tank of KES 20000 and harvest rainwater, thus avoiding perennial water shortages. My last-born daughter called off her college studies in the year 2019 due to a lack of money to pay school fees, this is bothering me since I could not give her quality education as a parent. I will therefore use KES 40000 to pay her school fees for the next academic year. With the remaining amount, I will buy food and clothing for my family."

"I was so happy when I got the money because I got something to help me get the things I did not have and I desired to have. I desired to have a bed and a mattress because I used to sleep on the floor and it was very uncomfortable. I also wanted to have a storage tank to be storing water because we have to travel very far to fetch water, so with a tank we can store water in bulk and use it sparingly to spare ourselves the torture of having to travel very far to fetch water."

"I currently depend on doing manual jobs to provide for my family. The drought situation in our home area has made life even more difficult. Just imagine we are currently buying water at KSH 80 for a 20-liter jerrican. This is becoming unbearable for us. The little I earn is just enough to buy food and also pay little as school fees. When I received the transfer I spent KSH 1000 in paying school fees for my children. In addition to that, I spent another KSH 1000 buying food family. I also gave my son who is in secondary school KSH 500 as pocket money. I purchased water and some other household stuff with the rest of the money."

"I had no new goals when I received this transfer as the goal was to complete the projects that I had started with the money from the first transfer. I wanted to complete the house that is sizeable enough to be used as a kitchen and where people can sleep as well. The other part of the transfer was to go to the day-to-day activities and expenditure, especially buying water because we have to travel very far to fetch water ourselves."

"The first thing I did with this money was to save half of the money that I put KES.900 into my savings account. I plan on saving up to KES.15000 which I can start a farming project. I plan to plant fruits and vegetables. Even in this drought with this money, I would be able to buy water enough for irrigation. This would provide food for my family as well as start a business. The rest of the money is KES.300, I spent it on food. I am thankful to Give directly for looking after us."

"At around 9am when I was resting at home from fetching some water is when I got the transfer message from GiveDirectly. I jumped up and down in happiness knowing that some demanding issues that were giving me some headaches were going to be resolved."

"After the withdrawal, I bought 2 standard beds for KES 13000.00 and 2 mattresses for KES 9000.00 and left for home from the shopping centre. Having 6 children who are in primary school, I paid KES 10000.00 school fees for them. I cleared all the balances and also completed the fees for the whole year. Thereafter, I bought a door for KES 3000.00, some clothes for my children for KES 1800.00 and also took my child to hospital after falling sick where we were charged KES 1000.00. Looking at how dry our area is, we are having hardships in sourcing for water, thus I kept the remaining amount to aid us in the family up keep as far as food and water is concerned."

"Having a desire to own livestock one day, I wanted to buy a cow targeting milk but considering how dry our area is, I bought 7 goats for KES 21000.00. I only spent the money on the goats and reserved the rest for family use and any emergency that may occur. This is because we have scarcity of food and water hence the remaining amount will be catering for that."