"Currently, we do not have access to freshwater to drink, I have to walk for 20 kilometers to bring fresh water. Mostly we find long queues waiting to fetch water which makes me spend more than three hours to get water. We dug wells to serve as drink water but it was too salty to drink. We do not have any option but to drink that water which makes us on and off with stomach illness. I feel depressed why I was married to this place."

"I have a small house where I stay with my three children without a door. Receiving this money means comfort to me, I intend to build a semi-permanent two-roomed house for 30,000 KES. This can bring back honor which I had lost because I share the same single room with my children. I am unable to change clothes when they are present. I have been sleeping in sacks and old clothes all my lifetime, I intend to buy a bed and mattress which can give me peaceful naps. This can amount to 15,000 KES with the remaining amount I will open a small kiosk in my village town to curb all customers at home."

"I have two children who are in primary school, doing their final exams this March. Receiving this money means continuity of education for my children. I did not go to school but I believe education is the key to success, I am amused to get this financial aid. I had no plan of them joining secondary school but this is the chance for them. I intend to enroll them in the nearby secondary day school with the first transfer. I intend to buy 10 goats to rear as an investment for my family in the future. With the remaining amount, I will buy food that can take us up to the farming season."

"My husband and I do not have formal jobs. I do small business while my husband does casual work in a tailoring shop near our home. We have managed to see our family throughout these jobs and we are grateful for them. My husband is a trained tailor and he has enough experience in tailoring. It has always been our wish that we established our shop so that we could enjoy all the profits alone. This has not been achieved due to limited resources in our family. Receiving this cash transfer to us is a dream come true. I am planning to spend KES 30000 to buy a sewing machine and other tailoring materials. This will be our happiness since my husband will be self-employed. We will be enjoying all the profits alone and have a better working environment. We are planning to use the income in our child school fees and other family developments."

"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."

"Food insecurity is my current challenge. I depend on casual jobs to make a living. Being a household head with four minors to take care of, I find it difficult to afford their needs. Maize has not been doing well for the last ten years after maize disease broke out. This has made it difficult to afford a meal given that this was our main meal. We hardly harvest enough to take us throughout the year."

"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."

"My goals have not changed since my enrollment in the GD programme. Every year i struggle to buy fertiliser to use in my farm. The subsidy programme does not carter for everyone but this year i bought fertilizer i did not even wait for the subsidy one i bought my own fertilizer at a normal price with GD money"