"The major challenge I'm currently face with is hardship which have to do with lack of money. There are so many days that I can't afford a meal. Sometime I have to do odd jobs just to find food. Getting money to meet up with my basic necessities is a serious problem because I don't have a reliable source of income. I will really appreciate any help I can get to improve my livelihood"

"Currently, the main challenge that I am going through is with my eye. Last year, a cataract started growing on my eye and it makes my sight very dim. I was felling the trees on my farm when the bark of the tree hit my eye. From that day up to today, I dont see very clear as I used to do. During the day, I don't see too clear with it except at night when I am able to see clear."

"I will buy cement and paint with portion of my recent transfer, and the balance will be used to pay my children's school fees. I am going to use the cement to plaster the walls of my house and put floor in my house. I am telling GiveDirectly thank you for the money given me and my family. I pray for God's blessing upon their hands."

"I was at home looking after my cows as they herd in the fields when I suddenly heard my phone ringing to notify me of an incoming message. I decided to check it to see what it was all about, and to my surprise, I saw an SMS saying that I had received the lump sum transfer of KES 55000 in my mobile money account. I was so happy on seeing the SMS most especially because I wasn't expecting such good news. My children who had accompanied me noticed the excitement in me and they asked me what was going on. I told them what had transpired and they were so happy, we celebrated together."

"I'm currently a widow and I'm getting older each day so my major concern now is to build a new house for me and my children and to provide food for my children and send them to school. So, once I get this transfer from Givedirectly those are things I'm going to do."

"My first priority now is to send my daughter to college because since last year she graduated from high school there has been no enough money for her tuition fees. And secondly, I want to get zinc for my house because whenever rain falls it goes directly into my bedroom."

"I live here alone, I'm not to physical to be able to make a large farm. As a result of this, most of the time getting sufficient food is a major challenge for my family. If I should benefit from this cash transfer, I will hire people to brush a large parcel of land for farming."

"Upon receiving this cash, my plan is that, when I receive this money, I will send my children to school and make sure that some of graduate from high school. In my father's generation, non of my father children has graduate from high school. This also goes to me as example, I stop in the fifth grade class and since then, I have not gone back to school. And I don't want this curse to be in my generation. We survive from cutting palms just to feed the family, sometime, when we sells the palm and the oil, the money can't be enough to send them to school. The house that we are presently in, is a family house, we don't have much power over the house, because this house is my wife father's house. We have other family members that are in the house with us, at the end, I have to be spending sometime in my family home and allow her to sleep with the children. For this, when I receive this money, I will use portion of it to send my children to good school and use the balance to build a house."

"I spent most of my transfer on the building of my new house."

"GiveDirectly is doing well by giving us phone, sim card and money. I see all that they are doing to be good."