"After the demise of my husband, my relationship with my brothers in law deteriorated, and I was then kicked out of that family. This left me homeless, landless and opened me to poverty. This was my sad moment as I was left with nothing to depend on. With this money, I will plan KES 40000 to buy 0.1 acres piece of land and then build a better house I.e a two-roomed house for my family. I am currently running a small business of buying and selling maize in Chebunyo center. This kept me going and able to provide for my children. I will inject the remaining money into this business to enable me to tap more profit. This will help reduce the burden of putting food on the table for my household."

"I am going thru real life challenges, I don't have food to eat and the farming job is a little bit harder now because I don't have money to pay workers to brush the farm. I have been going through a lot of hardship lately and at this point I think I do have a bit of hope by seeing you guys in our community."

"If I get this money I want to go back to school because I am a high school drop out and also enroll my little sister back to school because we don't have any one to depend on I'm the only one she have. I will also buy zinc for my house because it's leaking right now and the rainy season is getting closer."

"I am a mason and as I was winding up with my work, I heard a peep sound indicating that I had just received an SMS. I became so happy on checking and realizing that it was a Mpesa message indicating that GiveDirectly had honored their promise. This message gave me hope that I would achieve all of my plans and since it was already in the evening I decided to first inform my family about it before cashing them out."

"We do casual jobs to meet our family's needs of food, clothes, and school fees for my son. We earn KES 200 more so on non-market days otherwise it can be less. Due to unreliable sources of income, I sold all my cows to raise my son's school fees. Receiving this money means reclaiming our assets and investing in dairy farming. We are planning to purchase a dairy cow with KES 35,000. This will bring joy and happiness to my family since I will no longer use KES 60 daily to purchase milk for consumption at the same time I can sell milk in surplus to get money."

"Currently I do not have any goal that I can single out to do once I get some money. I usually plan for what to do after getting the money or when I am sure that there is a certain amount of money that I am waiting for. This is because I do not like planning in vein. If I plan in vein it will give me a lot of stress thus I do not plan to avoid these kinds of stress."

"GiveDirectly is a good organization which I can recommend other organizations to emulate how organized and well structured it is. This organization has touched the hearts of many of us and uplifted our living conditions which were miserable. My opinion to this organization is to request if it is possible they increase the amount from KES 110000.00 to KES 200000.00. By doing so, we will have a wider range of activities to do."

"Through GiveDirectly I was enabled to tackle things that had initially challenged me since I didn’t have money to handle them. I am very thankful for the aid that I received from GiveDirectly. Through the organization my son has secured a job of riding the motorbike to ferry people from one place to another at a fee."

"Building a new house for my two sons was the new goal that developed recently. For all those years, we have been sheltering under one roof which was not right according to our culture since they are bow teenagers. Therefore I have been thinking that having their shelter would restore dignity and privacy as a whole."

"I have not cash out my money yet due to busy schedule. Upon cash out my transfer money, I am planning to buy goods to add to my existing business and pay my kids tuition for the semester."