"Even though I am getting old, I spend my morning hours in my garden where I have grown maize and bananas. I especially do weeding and harvesting while looking after my two goats. I spend my afternoon hours doing household chores before fetching water and firewood in the evening. Having time to relax in the evening after a tiresome day is the happiest part of my day."

"Receiving this money means I am going to be relieved from the hard job of charcoal burning business.I am planning to build a rental house on my village market so that teachers and other people who feel to rent the house can do , I will earn some monthly revenue from the rents of my tenants.I have timber for building the rental house and what remains is nails , iron sheets, and money for the person to build the house of which I will spend 50,000 KES.I will spend 15000KES for school fees payment for my daughter who is in secondary school. I will buy my first mattress and a bed to enjoy my sleep with my wife which will cost 10,000KES .I will buy food for 15000 KES and the rest 30,000 KES I will buy goats because they do well in our harsh environment to keep for the family as wealth."

"Receiving this money means I will be relieved the burden of my childrens' school fees.I will spend 40,000 KES for my 2 sons' secondary school education fees , I will spend 50,000 KES to buy 4 catle - 2 oxen for ploughing my farm and 2 female cows for the family which will reproduce and multiply to be many as a family wealthy .I will buy two female goats, and a matress for my bed at a total of 15000 KES"

"Receiving this money means I will boast my business . I am a business man running a small retail shop here in my village market.I will spend 50,000 KES to boast my business so that I can increase my profit earning from 2000 KES per month to 50000 KES per month.I will buy 2 oxen worth 30,000 KES to boast my farming so that I will not be renting oxen to plough my farm.This will maximize my harvests because I will plough my farm on time using my own oxen and for this , I believe it will increase food security to my house.I will spend 10,000 KES to buy goats as a source of wealthy to my family and the rest 30,000 KES I will buy a stock of food to my family and also buy clothes for the whole family."

"Receiving this money means access to education for my three children. I have a family of five children who need to eat and attend school. Three of these children are currently in secondary school. Over the years I have been depending on charcoal selling businesses to feed and educate my children. However, due to the long drought that is currently facing our village, the business is no longer reliable. The much I can earn for a month is less than KES 2000. This has made my children to be on and off school due to fee balances. I intend to use the first cash transfer to clear the current fee balances for my children which is KES 50000. I will then use the second transfer to buy 10 goats as an investment for my children."

"When GiveDirectly came for enrollment, I was already in the process of building a more permanent house for my family. I had completed the structure and the remaining part was to fix cealing and tiles. When I received my transfer, I decided to spend KES 48000 to complete it and paid for the labour. As a way of investing this money and have something that I will always use to remember GiveDirectly, I spent KES 5000 to purchase a goat for rearing."

"I have been working hard to own cattle (A dairy cow and two goats), with this money I see my dreams coming through. I will set aside KES 50000 to purchase cattle. I will also budget KES 30000 to buy food and clothing for ourselves, now that we are old I will save the remaining KES 20000 to enable us but basic needs and avoid working on heavy work to earn a linving."

"Receiving this money means my family shall be financially stable and food secure. I am a mother of 2 who dropped out of school in 2019 due to early pregnancy. I have been unable to secure any job. I spent most of my time within the homestead doing house chores and farming pulp onions because my kids are young. These onions earn me at least KES 200 per week. I sell them to businesswomen at the grocery because I do not have time to take them to the market. My husband works as a casual laborer where he earns at least KES 200 per day. This work is seasonal hence we cannot fully depend on it to vend for the family. Due to the kids, we spend most of our incomes and wages on milk and food this is usually KES 1200 per month. Therefore receiving this amount will eventually relieve me from these expenses because I shall buy a dairy cow worth KES 35000 and three dairy goats worth KES 12000. From this, we shall get milk for household consumption and the surplus for sale to earn incomes that will be used on the needs of my family such as school fees, food, and clothing."

"This money means that I will be able to build a house for my family. The house we live in is small, made of unbaked bricks and it's thatched with grass. So I will buy baked bricks and other building materials to use in building the house. I also don't have enough beddings and a matress. As such I will use the money to buy new beddings and a matress. On top of that, I will buy food because I lost my harvest to floods. I will not forget to buy goats to raise. I will sell them in future when they multiply."

"Receiving this money means I will be releaved the burden of school fees for my children.I have two daughters one in secondary school and one in college and I have been struggling for their education fees. I will spend KES 40,000 for my daughters' fees, spend KES 20,000 to buy goats and start farming as a source of wealthy for my family and spend KES 15,000 shillings to buy food for my family and seeds for the coming planting season . I will go for eyes checkup because I have developed sight problems."