"My new goal which i didn't have before i started receiving payments is to buy a cow for milking and since i do not have any regular income, it will boost my earnings from selling milk. Also, since i have electricity, i am planning to start a salon just within my home" (Campaign: UBI)

"My life is now different because i am able to pay for my chilren school fees without fail which enables them be in school fulltime." (Campaign: UBI)

"I had never planned to do poultry farming in large scale but now that the transfers are here i can now plan big goals." (Campaign: UBI)

"I could be straining to meet my daily needs, and pay school fess since my husband is not that suppotive but i am grateful that Givedirectly came." (Campaign: UBI)

"The new goal that I didn't have before receiving the transfer is to start building poultry house and continue increasing the number of chicken I keep. I prefer this since eggs can easily be sold and the money used to buy other things like maize." (Campaign: UBI)

"I expect my life in the next six months to be less hard and become better. I expect to live in a better house. We currently live in a thatched kitchen that has a leaking roof. I expect to get a better kitchen. This expectation will be met because my husband and I plan to be combining our GD transfers and save it so as to buy iron sheets and build a better house for our family and we are so optimistic about it." (Campaign: UBI)

"The achievement that am most proud of is building of an iron roofed house.Before that,I lived in a grass thatched house that was in bad condition and almost fell on us.From my 5000 kshs monthly salary as a school watchman,I bought iron sheets and constructed a new house." (Campaign: UBI)

"The biggest hardship I have faced is paying my school fees by myself. After being abandoned by my father,I had to do menial jobs to pay for my school fees in secondary school.Balancing between school and casual jobs was not easy and as a result,I dropped out in form three." (Campaign: UBI)

"The biggest hardship I have faced is being unable to raise money for medication. I have an eye problem that comes with severe pains and because I can not raise money for medication,I only apply eye drops and has to endure the pain for so many weeks." (Campaign: UBI)

"The biggest hardship I have ever faced in life was in the year 2003 when my mother passed away. I was only three years old. Indeed this was so traumatizing to me because I missed the parental love." (Campaign: UBI)