"The biggest difference in my daily life now is that I am now self employed and earning profits daily which has really helped unlike before I used to work as a casual labour which paid less than 2 dollar a day. My children used to suffer in terms of food, clothing and school fees and had to borrow for my family but currently we are comfortable and had been able to pay the fees at ease.I now have a cow that when I start milking it will support the family for home consumption and also in income generation when I sell the milk.I am now financially stable and it's thanks to GD transfers."

"Used KES 30000 to buy a dairy cow used kes 8000 to dig a wate pan. The remaining amount was useful in buying more building materials as I get ready to build a shop that will see me run a business in it once it is complete. I normally engage in farming which I support with irrigation water from a pan that I dug in my compound. The money came at a time that the pan was getting muddy and I had to use the money to make it good and be able to accumulate much more water. I am glad that the rains came after the clean up and soon I will embark on farming to improve our living standards furter as a family."

"I am a widow with 5 children in various institutions.Payment of school fees for all of them is a great challenge to me especially now that am the breadwinner with no reasonable income.I am a small scale dairy farmer but recently one of my well-producing cow died due to an infectious disease.As a result, the earnings I get from the dairy products have tremendously reduced to KES 5000 per month from KES 8500. This amount is insufficient to meet the school fee requirement for my children hence huge debt in schools."

"When we receive this transfer, we will buy cement and plaster our house. We are really tired living in the dust. When we plaster our house, our next target is to buy cows. The cows will continue to generate income for the family when they start to reproduce. The income from the cows will be used to build a house in Pleebo where our children will live to acquire quality education. When our children acquired quality education, we belive our livelihood will improve. It has been our dream to give our children quality education but due to lack of finance, we are finding it difficult. We want to appreciate the Give Directly family for bringing this assistance in our community."

"The moment I received my transfer, I opted to purchase a dairy cow to reduce the cost of buying milk daily. Therefore I used KES 25,000. I then paid KES 15,000 for school fees for my children. Lastly, I used the remaining amount on farming. I am happy to have accomplished so much in a short time which I would not have accomplished since I am a Boda Boda rider. In addition to that, I also have four children who depend on me. I am so grateful for the opportunity that changed my living standards."

"My new goal is for me to be able to enrol on an upgrading course in teaching. I plan to achieve this dream by selling at least one of the cows when the right time comes. I am so grateful for the funds that opened our eyes to strive for more."

"Upon withdrawing the money, the first thing I did was buying a mattress for KES 6000.00. This is because, for a while I have been sleeping on a bed tied with ropes and sacks. I also paid KES 5000.00 fee arrears for my primary school children. I also bought a cow for KES 12000.00. I am also planning to build a decent house since the one I have id is leaking. As of now, I used part of the 1st transfer to buy some construction materials and I am sure to complete it once I get the second transfer."

"Our new goal is to renovate the sleeping house for my boys. It is mud-walled and we would like to change and construct permanent walls. This is because getting good mud for mudding the house has become quite a challenge since it is no longer easily available. We thus usually have to buy it. Mudding the walls and floor is also tedious and my wife is growing old. She is no longer able to do the hard work. We also have a plan to buy a goat so that we can have an alternative source of milk when the cow is dry. This way, we will no longer have to incur the costs of buying milk when the cow is dry."

"My new goal is to buy more land. I would like to buy two or three points of an acre that I can use in planting nappier grass for my cows. I have a small piece of land and it is not enough to grow feeds for my cows that I managed to buy with the transfers with from GiveDirectly. I would also like to take my children to a private school to study so that they can have a bright future and help us. They are currently studying in a public primary school. I also have a plan to start a business like a shop so that I can help my wife with the household expenses. I am physically disabled and I am not able to work. My wife is the one who usually goes out to look for casual work to do to get money for buying food and milk when the cow is dry."

"I spent KES 30000 of my recent transfer on buying another cow. I decided to buy the cow to add to the one that I have so that when one is dry, I can still have a milk supply from the other. I am a farmer and I usually some of the milk. The money that I get from the sales, usually helps me in paying school fees for my children. I also spent another KES 12000 on buying two rolls of barbed wire. I want to fence the whole of my land so that I can leave the cows to graze freely on their own. I usually have to tie them up to restrain them from going to the farm and destroying crops. I also saved KES 6000 that I plan to use in buying school bags for my two boys. With the remaining transfer, I used KES 3000 on buying a bag of maize for our consumption and another KES 3000 I used it on buying some household utensils. I am thus so much grateful for everything that GiveDirectly has done for us."