"I am currently suffering in this remote village, I went to school but since my father died, I haven't had any opportunity to go to school. Getting this money, I will build myself a new house and send my newphews school."

"When I withdraw my money, I'm planning to spend my transfer on buying Cement and Zinc to start my new building project. I will paid my children school fees, and the rest of the money I will buy enough foodstuff for my family and the workers."

"When I received my transfer my dreams was to build my owned house in my village. The house I'm living in right now is a very old house. A been my dream to change it, but I never had the support to do so. With the help of givedirectly my life has changed and my dreams has come to passed. Now my new goals is to extend my building with 2 additional rooms added for my children. I'm so happy that I was enrolled on this program."

"Firstly I'm so thankful to GiveDirectly for making my dream come to passed. Givedirectly done very well in my life and that of our village, through givedirectly transfer I was able to start building my owned house in my village. With the support of givedirectly I'm able to paid my children school fees. I can now afford to provide food for my family. There's nothing that givedirectly hasn't done well."

"We ealier plan to invest our money in farming activities and the children schooling. After receiving the money, we came up with another goal by saving some and using portion to turn our hands inside to help our family."

"My main goal was to build house, but I never had the money to build. I was glad to have received transfer from Givedirectly which has help me to purchase my building materials. I have also plan to start a business when my bhilding is completed which is my new goal."

"I have decided to start a new business in addition to my previous goal of building a new house before receiving the money. My whole desire was to have a perfect home where my family and I will life comfortably, but I also thought on doing business as a source of sustainable income for my family."

"I am from Nimba County and a business woman who sells food. My spouse is also working on the goldmine as a casual labourer. Our plan is to build our own house and improve my business."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am a proud owner of livestock more so a dairy cow and goats. This is what has been my desire to own for year's but due to my financial constraints, I could not afford it. My spouse passed on so many years ago and my elder son had to pick the role of being the family breadwinner since I am old. It has however been very hard for him to fulfill all our needs. Therefore I had to think of a perfect asset that will make all these problems come to an end. I am hopeful that with the goats once they increase in number I will be able to sell some and settle all the household bills that we have been straining in resolving. Also with the dairy cow, I will soon be seeking milk that goes for KES 50 a liter and I will be saving the money for my grandchildren's schooling. I am so grateful to GiveDirectly for bringing a positive impact to my family."

""Since my returned to this village in 2010 life has not been easy, I came with the hope of working and making more money on the newly open Gold camp in this village but sadly though things didn't go as planned. I'm now a father of two children of which I can bearly support. I want to build my house but don't have the money to do that presently. The payment of my son school fees is a major challenge for me.""