"I am living with my old husband who is bed ridden because he is blind and has difficulties in walking. I have to bear the burden of providing for the family through my charcoal burning occupation which is not reliable as I earn just peanuts. Therefore my family lack basic needs such as food, shelter, medical care for the sick husband and school fees for my children in school."

"Imagine sharing a three bedroom house with my whole family of eight members. This has been the case for 3 years now. I always feel ashamed as culturally it is not acceptable to be living with your entire family in one house moreso the grown up sons. The situation becomes worse when we get visitors. Receiving this money transfer would mean I build a new two bedroom house whereby I will accommodate my 5 grandchildren. I will spend 45000 KES on materials and building costs. I will also renovate the house so that it can be also safe and conducive for me and the other family members.Through this I will have achieved respect not only to my family but also to the society."

"Considering that I am a single parent, providing my family of 5 members all the basic needs like food, clothes and better health care becomes an uphill to me. My four year old daughter who is in pre primary school lack school fees and most of the time she is sent home and this has affected her academic performance."

"I do not have a job or any source of income but with a child to take care of. It makes me feel bad that I'm not even able to financially contribute when my parents are still the same old peasants. I just want to move out and stop burdening them. Maybe create a source of income for myself."

"I feel fatigued a lot most of the time. This is because I do not get to sleep enough at night due to discomfort I always experience. I do not have a proper bed at the moment, not forgetting beddings. I just sleep on a traditional mat spread on top of a bed made from tree logs. This is extremely hard and pinches my body a lot."

"We have a big challenge raising school fees for our children. Most of the time they don't get enough time to learn because they're always between school and home collecting areas. This is already showing negative impact on their academic performances. I have been trying a lot to solve this but it's not possible without income."

"I am a professional tailoring who have not yet had an opportunity to practice. I acquired the skills through technical institute training I got after finishing my primary level of education. When I receive this money, I will first save it up to be able to set up a basic tailoring shop here in the village. We separated with my husband five years ago after getting one child. I kept the child but my husband isn't interested in helping me raise our son. I have been hawking coconut fruits in the village to get money to provide for him. This business is lucrative earning me up to 120% profit. But it comes with a burden of having to get the fruits ten kilometres away and still hawking around to make sales. When I start tailoring business I will not only put my learnt skills to use but also rest from that."

"I have always had a dream of raring domestic animals but due to inadequacy of financial resources, I haven't acted on this yet. When I get this money I will make that a reality. I'll first save up until I have enough to buy at least three goats for a start. Each costs around 3500KES at the moment. I would love to get cattle but because the money is not lump sum, I'll just start with goats then later resell to introduce cattle. I see this as a store wealth I can fall back to when I need money to pay school fees for my last born who's in class eight now. His school fees used to be affordable until COVID-19 started and the school administration decided that they needed to start boarding. It helped but came at an extra cost."

"We had a small piece of land that we inherited from our parents and it could only fit our house leaving us with nowhere to for farming. Every year we could lease some piece of land farming but this was so expensive. We therefore bought a piece of land at cost of KES 40000 for farming. In addition, my daughter who is in primary boarding school had been sent back home for school fees, so I cleared the fee balance which was worth KES 10000. I am glad she was able to go back to school, and she will finally concentrate on her studies. Part of the money I spent on foodstuffs for my family."

"I spent most of the transfer which was KES 25000 on making a partial payment for a piece of land that we intend to buy because it is by the road which makes it a very viable option for long term business investment. Its value will definitely appreciate with time, and we could potentially end up selling it at a much higher price than the one we bought it at and go invest in something else. However, my husband and I settled on building rental houses that will be out regular source of income which will be enabling us meet our family's daily immediate needs. This makes me so happy and proud, all thanks to GiveDirectly. I also spent KES 10000 on replenishing our business of selling some veterinary medicines, because it has been our sole source of income and its stock was running low. It was running out of stock which was very bad for its reputation, therefore, when we got the money we made one of the key priorities in spending it in to be making sure that all regularly asked for medicines are available so as to restore our regular clients' faith in us. This business is very important to us and it can only get better as it will be complemented by our rental houses business. We are so proud as a family."