"I spent all my second transfer, KES 55,000 on expanding my business. The business mainly deals in maize and wheat flour as the key availe products. By virtue of investing in additional money in the business, it has greatly picked up and I always make sales estimate of KES 100,000 per day. As a result of the business good performance, I am optimistic that I shall soon diversify the products I sell. This will increase my source of income hence supporting my family will no longer be burdensome."

"My house is so tiny. Tiny to a point I cannot fit my whole family in it. I love having evening meals with my family but this is made impossible by the space that is supposed to host all six of us. I have had a dream to build a huge house so that after a long day, I get to sit with my family and unwind. I honestly do not care if all my transfers go to construction, I just need to expand this space. Not having to split my children between us will make me very happy."

"I am a widow and a mother of five. Currently, four are still under my care and they are in various schools. I struggle to make them happy and have a good place to call home. I lost my husband when I was still young in marriage and since then I have not been able to develop enough to comfortably take care of my children. This coming cash transfer to me means an asset to my family. I am planning to use KES 35000 to buy a cow. I prefer a cow since I do not have one. This is will be an asset to us and from it, we will enjoy milk for both household consumption and sales to earn an income. I am hopeful the offspring will be our financial security and I will be selling to pay for my children's school fees. This is indeed a blessing to my family."

"Yes i have new goals that i didn't have before receiving the transfer , firstly i have been living in a glass thatched house that would leak almost everywhere untill i asked my sister to borrow me her house since she is in South Africa,as soon as i got enrolled i knew it that this is my only opportunity to build a resilient house,so with my first transfer i bought house building materials though i have finished buying with the second transfer aswell,the only thing remaining is to start the house project I'm just waiting for the rain season to pass,i know i wouldn't have done this without Give Directly so I'm much grateful. Again i have bought a few farm inputs such as seeds,fertiliser, and i paid for labourers since I'm a woman i can't do the farming on my own. So with the remaining money i bought education materials for my children such as school uniforms and books also not forgetting four bags of maize which i bought with the recent transfer."

"We struggle a lot to pay school fees for our children. There is no time that we have paid the fees with ease. Even as of now we still owe the school fees arrears of 15000. It disturbs us a lot when the children are sent home for fees and maybe we can not send them back due to lack of it. We wish well our children and look forward to a better future by providing them with ample time to study without being sent home for fees."

"I used my money to buy bags of Maize for food, fertilizer and also saved some of my monry to improve my house when the rainy season ends"

"I have a family of two members. We are all living in a one bedroom house and it leaks during rains season. It has no space to accommodate visitors and also my daughter who is schooling can not do her studies at night. During rains season, My daughter and I have sleepless nights due to the rains. I will build a two bedroom house, buy two beds and two mattresses. This will cost KES 90000. I will also use KES 20000 to buy five goats as investment. It will help me pat school fees for my daughter when she joins secondary school next year."

"I am a full-time housewife in the village. I depend on my husband who works as a casual laborer in a borehole. His job earns him KES 300, per day and it is not warranted. The wages are only sufficient for food. This has hindered us from fulfilling our long-time desire of having a good shelter. Prolonged drought has also challenged us because we can not plant anything in our farms."

"Receiving this money means self-respect to me. I am a 72 years old single man. For the longest time, I have desired to have my own family but poverty has made it impossible. This has been a source of ridicule to me. For me to have a wife, I approximately need to have 20,000 KES. With my charcoal burning occupation, making such an amount is impractical. I intend to use 30,000 KES of the money I will receive as dowry for a wife. Having a companion will improve my social life."

"The moment I received my money,I felt so happy.Happy because I didn't believe that such organization like give-directly ever exists. My country Liberia don't have any thing that comes free."