"Being married to my wife for four years without paying dowry to her family used to bother me a lot. I also wanted to take her to college so that she can earn livelihood skills so that she can earn herself some income there after and help each other build our family. Selling charcoal which was my main source of income wouldn't anabled me to do all this as all I used all the income that I was earning to provide for my wife and our child. I spend 30000 KES of the recent transfers to pay dowry for my wife, 12000 to pay school fees for my wife and the balance to buy food and clothing for my family. I'm happy that my wife's family don't owe me dowry and my wife will be in a position to support me with family responsibilities in future."

"Right now, my goal is to rear the goats that I bought and make sure that the herd grows as it will be my main source of income. I intent to sell some of the goats in few years to come to enable me pay school fees for my children."

"I was at home relaxing on my usual spot because I rarely move because I'm pysically challenged. when the message popped and realized that I had received the transfers, I called my wife who was in the kitchen preparing supper and informed her about it. We were both so happy because we knew that we were going to finally roof our house."

"I used the most recent transfer to buyinging my zinc."

"GiveDirectly is a great organization, it is doing well by giving us unconditional cash transfer to help improve our lives. In my opinion, GiveDirectly has not done any wrong thing."

"Absolutely no, I do not have any new goals, I still keep to my first goals when the money has not come."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am now able to meet my family's needs, especially diet without struggling. Previously, I was hustling a lot to upkeep my family of 3 members. I am grateful for the transfer for installing hope in our lives."

"After receiving the second transfer, my priority was to start a milk buying and selling business. To make the business effective, I needed a motorcycle. I, therefore, used KES 25,000 of the transfer as a down payment for a motorcycle worth KES 125,000. From this, I am required to repay KES 380 daily for the next 18 months. Secondly, I intend to use KES 17,000 as capital for starting the milk vending business. Through this, I am targeting the purchase and sale of 150 liters of milk each day. As a result, I will get KES 2,000 profits daily. This, will not only help in the motorcycle loan repayment but also food and savings. Thirdly, I spent KES 3,750 on the repayment of a mobile money loan. This helped to clear my name from the credit reference bureau while buying my motorcycle on loan. I also spent 2000 as savings in merry-go-round monthly contributions. This will help in household expenditures. Lastly, I spent KES 3,600 on a bag of maize. This is because earlier, I would rely on casual labor like masonry and weeding to get food. But these jobs are quite unreliable because they are seasonal and I would get only between KES 300 and KES 400 a day."

"I plan to complete my building process, I plan to pay my children school fees and I also plan to do a business."

"When I withdraw my money from my mobile account I bought one ne lot of land and two bundle of zinc to build my new house for my family and I, then I use the balance money to pay school fees daughter."