"After a long period of buying milk from the neighboring households that had lactating cows, GiveDirectly finally came in and open a way for us to purchase a cow as well. The cost of obtaining enough milk for my family of five was so high that we could sometimes decide to forgo for some days even though it was so hard explaining to my children. Previously we had struggled to save in bits but we could not manage to raise enough money to buy a cow but settled on a heifer instead. The first transfer we got was an opportunity for us and had to spend KES37000 on obtaining a lactating cow that has so far provided us with milk. With the remaining amount, we had to divide among other projects that we had scheduled to initiate; among them was obtaining a solar panel that came with pieces of lighting pieces of equipment at a deposit of KES4000 and a monthly installment of KES50 every day for the next nine months, we also obtained a sack of maize at KES3300, and a 25KG bag of rice at KES1800 that has given my husband an easy time as he had been dependent on the casual labor. Currently, I am glad that we can both work on our projects at the farm unlike in the previous months where we would always expect him to bring us food after his hard day in the scorching sun."

"Since I was born and grown up I have not own a house for myself which have been my worry. So, today I have the opportunity to do something for myself."

"We were happy because we were facing problem of getting money and God made it possible for us to received such an amount of money"

"I have paid my children school fees and I am about to start a new business that will help support us with food while we are constructing our house"

"I was too happy because that was my first time to get such an amount of money"

"I am planning to build my house with the money for remenbra in the future"

"My Children father abandoned us all and caring for them since then has been my major challenge."

"I paid my children school fees, buy my matress for my room and also buy food for the house."

"I feel happy because, I was suffering to send my children to school. I couldn't afford any money for my children to go to school."

"The challenges I'm going through now are raising funds to build my family a house and to send my children to school this academic. Schools just resumed and my children haven't started going because of thelack of funds to pay their fees."