"Receiving this money means continuing education for my household. I plan to achieve this through livestock keeping. I will spend KES 30,000 to buy ten indigenous goats which do well in my area. As they multiply I will sell at a profit and use it to pay school fees as well as buy stationery. The remaining amount will help me to buy beddings and expand my grocery business. This will enable me to have a regular income that will give me the power to address all needs in the family."

"The challenge that I am currently facing is a lack of money. I am a mother of one and my parents separated fifteen years ago. Later on, my father died and left me with my two siblings who depend on me. I am jobless relying on casual agricultural labor which is hard to get and the returns are KES 300 per week. The earnings are not sustainable and as a result, I find it hard to save more money to build a big house. All of it goes into buying food. The situation has been worse thus my sister had to drop out of school due to school fees."

"A prolonged period of drought has been the biggest challenge we are currently facing. We have 0.3 acres of land in total but the one under cultivation is 0.1 acres. In this 0.1 acres of land, we have grown maize solely for domestic use. Initially, we used to harvest at 2 bags of it but due to prolonged drought and maize necrosis disease, getting at least half a bag is an uphill task. Since we entirely rely on maize as a staple food, I feel sad that we have failed to get an alternative food to grow."

"Receiving this money means an accomplished project for my family. We started constructing our house 3 months ago but unfortunately, it stalled due to insufficient funds. My mother-in-law became sick and we used all the cash we had at her disposal and therefore we were unable to complete it. Our ambition has been to complete constructing our house and I am glad that soon this dream will materialize through the transfer from Give Directly. We intend to spend approximately KES 30,000 of the transfer to accomplish the project. Seeing my family lead a decent life is the joy of my life."

"I have used the money to buy iron sheets so that i can start constructing a decent house for my family and I to shelter us from the bad weather for many more years to come. I also used some of the money to buy fertilizer for my maize crops so that i will have a decent harvest for a change. I also bought myself some beddings as the old ones were really worn out."

"Before receiving the transfers, my goal was to build an iron sheet house. At first as I had a glass roofed house which was liking that during the rainy season it was very difficult to stay with my two children. Now I have a four bedrooms house that I am very happy to have seen my dream coming true."