"My life is currently different from how it was in that, I am able to offset some bills like paying rent and electricity bills with ease. Before then, we used to sleep hungry a lot as compared to nowadays where I do not only depend on selling water using a cart."

"When I received my first transfer, I spent some amount to build a decent kitchen for my family. I bought some building materials that include timber, sand, cement, iron sheets and paid a mason for this work. I settled on this since the one we had was old and its roof was always leaking during the rainy season. This always made our items soaked with water when it rained. Also, I built a chicken coop as a way of starting a poultry keeping project. I am planning to buy some chicken using my second transfers. I prefer this since it is cheap to maintain and can earn me an income enough to support my daily household needs. I also bought a wire mesh to use in fencing our compound so that my chicken will not be moving out of the compound to the farms."

"Most of my day i.e. morning till afternoon is spent in the farm.In it,I plant food crops like maize and beans mainly for my family's consumption.Within this time also,I ensure that my cows have enough feeds and water to keep them till end of the day.This is mostly the happiest part of my day because I enjoy these activities and through this,my family gets its food and an income to meet all the other needs."

"Since this transfers is progamme is approaching the end. I am thinking of constructing a poultry house. I have a desire to invest in poultry so that I would have a source of income through the sale of eggs. Currently, I have 20 chicken which are about to start laying eggs but the challenge is that I do not have a good structure to keep these birds. I would request my husband to complete paying for the water tank with his transfers as I save towards purchasing materials for constructing a poultry house."

"Receiving this money means acquiring oxen plough tool because I have been borrowing, a bicycle to help with movement especially fetching water from a far distance."

"The greatest difference in my daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer is building a house. I was staying in a grass-roofed house that was seriously leaking when it rained thus when Give Directly came and promised us money my priority was to build a better house. I have been using my transfer on buying iron sheets because I wanted to fulfill my dream of having a better house. I thank God I managed to build my dream house through Give Directly transfers. When I flashback life was unbearable because during the rainy seasons we were forced to take our children in our grandmother's house spend a night there. We used to unfold beddings till the rain stops to avoid them being soaked with rainy water. I thank Give Directly that is not the norm nowadays after building an iron-roofed house. We are staying a happy life with no worries like, before."

"I have plans of buying a dairy cow once I acquire a water tank. I shall have finished paying for the tank by end of this year and once I am done then it will allow me to invest on buying a dairy cow."

"When I wake up in the morning, I head to my farm where I till my maize plants up to around noon.I then return home and prepare the midday meal after which I head to the pond to fetch water for the household. By the time I get to finish and rest it is normally around 4:00 pm and this is normally my happiest time of the day because after a long strenuous day, I finally get to rest and spend time with my three month old baby whom I am forced to leave in the care of the grandmother while I am tending to the other duties at home. "

"My family has been drawing water from a stagnant water pan for a very long time. It harbors filth and is a predisposition for infections like typhoid and diarrhoea. For a long time my desire has been to accord my children with clean and safe water for drinking. Receiving this money will enable me buy a 3000 litre capacity water tank at a cost of 260 usd to realize this aspiration. "

"Financial constraint to purchase food for the family is the biggest hardship that we face as a family. My husband who was the bread winner had an accident recently and nearly lost a finger.Since most of his casual jobs require the use of hands to operate, he has been rendered jobless and this has greatly affected our finances.My income of ksh.200 from fetching water and Washing clothes in Bamba town is what my family is currently relying on for food,medication and clothing. Since we can not compromise on his medication since I greatly wish for him to get well soon,getting money to buy our daily meals is the biggest tussle that I face. Going hungry on so many occasions,sometimes even for two days yet I am breastfeeding is by far the toughest test of my life."