"I am a widow who takes care of three orphans. With my old age, I have to work hard to provide all their basic needs without support from anyone else. The most pressing need is school fees which I cannot comfortably afford with my casual job of weaving ropes. I desire to give them a better future through education so that they can explore job opportunities in the corporate world. Once they are employed, they will live a descent life and also take care of me. Therefore, receiving this transfer means purchasing livestock that I will rear in oder to finance their education up to their desired level."

"Farming is quite unreliable in my area due to poor rainfall. It being the main source of livelihood, I have to do it besides other casual jobs such as weaving ropes in order to fend for my family. My great ambition is to make my family food secure and I can only achieve this by scaling up farming. Therefore, I will purchase oxen that I will use in my farm and also hire them at a fee. Apart from food security, I will also generate income that will cater for other needs such as food, education, medical and clothing. Therefore, this transfer means that my family will attain a decent standard of living."

"My daily life has a great difference in that, I feel great happiness as I aquired a cow that is will be a source of investment. When it calves, it will provide milk that I will sell off as a source of income to cater for my daily family needs such as feeding and increase in the number of my cattle. This will then act as security as well when it come to continuity with my children's education."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I was able to enrol my children in a boarding school. They now have time to study efficiently and perform well, since they no longer have to spend too much time on the way walking for long distances to school and back. The school they used to go to was far away from our home. I am physically disabled whereby I lost one of my lower limbs. I depend on farm jobs to support my family. My wife also does casual farm jobs in the village. I have always wanted my children to study well but I never had the means to take them to a better school. I am grateful to Give Directly that my children can now concentrate well on their education in their new school, and I can sleep comfortably on the new mattress that I bought with the transfers."

"I have no new goal for the next four months, my only plan currently is to pursue my education because I believe through education I will be successful and dependent."

"As a maize farmer, my desire has always been to produce enough amount that is sufficient for domestic consumption, and again be able to sell surplus to the outside market. For us maize is stable food. With the unpredictable weather and harsh climatical conditions coupled with unavailability of proper mode of land tillage, farming has been rendered unproductive. That said, I will use part of my transfers to purchase two oxen and a plough, something I've dreamt of owning for quite some time. Apart from maize farming, I want to diversify into other drought resistant crops like watermelon and cassava. For me, being food secured is my top priority. Currently, I spend a lot of money is purchasing maize flour from shops, something that am capable of producing in my farm. Once I cut the huge expenses I've been incurring on food, other needs of the family like education, health care and clothing will be easily addressed."

"The biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer is that I no longer have a lot of worries in payment of school fees for my children in time. Before, I used to depend on my farm produces. Due to bad weather and poor maintenance, I did not manage to harvest any from my farm. This was my only source of income, so payment of school fees for my children was becoming difficult for me. Thanks to GiveDirectly for this financial assistance, now I am to pay arrears on time. I am a happy parent seeing my children getting the best education."

"The biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer is that I have afforded to pay school fees for all my three children who are at secondary school. Besides, I have managed to pay college fees for my daughter who has just joined college to further her studies. I have been saving the transfers through table banking to finance education for my children. Still, I attained some financial boost from my husband. Overall, I am happy to ensure that all of my children further their studies by paying fees on time."

"My husband has been involved in livestock auctioneering business for the past five years. He buys livestock within the week and resells them on two market days in Chebunyo market and Mulot market on Monday and Saturday respectively. Receiving this money means an opportunity for us to expand this business. My husband is going to invest a huge junk of the first and second transfers to buy more livestock for sale. If all goes well as per our plan, we intend to use proceeds accrued from this business to build a new house, buy a few goats and pays fees for our three children in school. My ambition is to move all our children from public primary to a private school in future so as to accord them quality education. Hopefully, these plans will soon be an inevitable reality thanks to GiveDirectly. "

"In the next six months, I expect to have learnt how to tailor nice dresses. This will give me the confidence to start my own tailoring shop from which I will be able to earn more income. I will, therefore, be self-dependent and embark on supporting my children to acquire the highest level of education they will aspire to attain."