"My second born who is doing building and construction at Vitengeni Youth Polytechnic has been at home for the past five weeks because of a lack of school fees. Receiving this money means paying all the school fees which is 15,000 KES per term and I will use the rest of the money to build a house as it is not spacious enough to accommodate we two wives with our personal items such as clothes."

"Buying milk has been my routine and with the recent drought that we have been experiencing in my region, the prices of milk have gone high. As a subsistence farmer, money from the sale of eggs has been of great importance to me in meeting our basic needs though it has made my poultry project not to grow. As a way of reducing our expenditure in the future, I decided to spend KES 40000 on the purchase of a dairy cow. Also, I spent KES 12000 to fence my farm to avoid my crops from being destroyed by livestock whenever I am not at home and spent KES 2700 on food and a pair of clothes."

"Recently I have noticed that my the building materials used to construct my house are all eaten by Ants, so time to time I have to call a mason to make repairs which is very costly, I spend almost KSH 800 every week because that's all I can afford to make partial repairs. Upon receiving the first transfer of KSH 55000 I plan to do all repairs, especially all the walls and this will cost around for all building materials KSH 25000 and a labour charge of KSH 5000. The rest of the transfer which is around Ksh 20,000 I will expand my business, where I sell sweet potato fries in Schools."

"My two children had stayed at home for some time since I had not been able to pay their school fees on time. With the transfer, I was able to clear their fee arrears and they're doing well in school. This has made me so happy and I am always at peace knowing that they will never be sent back home any time soon. In addition, being able to finish the construction of our house and start living in it has given me so much joy. I had left it incomplete for over a year and had decided to concentrate on my children's education after the school that was sponsoring one of my children stopped their sponsorship."

"Having constructed this semi permanent house in August last year, I thought I had achieved all my dreams, and that I wasn't going to pay rent anymore. But I can say am sad, because Ants have invaded my home and destroyed my children books, furnitures and even the materials used to build the house have been eaten, and soon my house will be in bad shape. Upon receiving the first transfer I plan to renovate, my house which will cost around Ksh 55000, which is inclusive of labour and building materials."

"My double room house that I built in 2017, has developed some bad cracks, that is putting my family at risk. I plan to use my first transfer of KSH 55,000 to renovate my house which approximately will need around for cost KSH 35,0000 inclusive of labour and building sticks, mud and 4 wheelbarrows of building blocks. The rest of the transfer will be used to renovate my toilet which is open and doesn't have a structure."

"Receiving this money will mean a better life for my family. I am a father of six children, who are all currently in school, two of them are in secondary level. To earn a living I am always engaged in a business of buying and selling livestock during market days. However this is not my own business as I usually work as a middle man. The much I can get is KES 2500 in a week, after paying the owner of the business. This amount is not enough to sustain my family of six children. I am happy that this transfers from Givedirectly will enhance my business from the capital I will start with. I intend to use KES85000 as a capital start up for the business. The remaining will aid in buying food for the family."

"When I received my transfer I was able to buy 10begs of cement to plaster my house I took 30 thousand and added additional money to it and buy my motobike. Many thanks to Givedirectly for their support."

"Yes. I have been desiring to have a house in my entire life but I have been struggling to do so because I have been lacking money. I started thinking of building a house when I heard that I will receive money from GD. I am grateful because my desire will be fulfilled."