"Receiving this money will mean a lot to me. Since my husband died in the year 2003, life has been difficult to me in terms of needs provision to my family. Receiving this money will enable me to buy water pump to do irrigation on my farm, i will also do other business to boost my income."

"We have been having water shortage in our house yet my neighbour has pipped water from county government. We therefore intent to use money from GiveDirectly to buy pipes and connect water to our compound as well for domestic use."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that these transfers have enabled me to access clean water and food stuffs ."

"I do not have any new goal because I have not achieved my previous goal of buying water pump."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that my family is happy because they got a bicycle for fetching water, a cow and a goat that will support family development. We are also happy because we will be able to hire the garden next year."

"Receiving this money means that we will be able to buy building materials like iron sheets and poles so that we can construct a bigger house. I will spend part of the transfer on starting a business of selling fish and the remainder will be spent on buying a generator so that we can pump water for irrigating our farm."

"In the next six months,I expect my life too more comfortable as I will be getting tenders to supply vegetables to institutions as I will be producing in large quantities after purchasing the water irrigating pump."

"I spent my first transfer on buying bedings, utensils and some building materials such as nails, poles and iron sheets which I am now using to build my house. We can not build with bricks since it is a water logged. I am now going to sleep well then before."

"I spent my first transfer to get back my land which I had given out in exchange for money that I had used to educate my children because I had no place to plant my cassava. Most gardens that I had are all water logged and one can not plant cassava there. I also my transfer to finish up paying my children school fees. This is because there was a burning date for their fees."

"I expect to my house to have changed from mud floor to a plastered floor and I expect to have bought a water tank to aid in storage."