"The challenge I am currently facing is my kidney related illness. I have been struggling with kidney related complications for the last two years. I was advised by a doctor to no longer work for longer periods. This has really had an effect on my economic productivity. Tailoring is my occupation. Before, I used to make a profit of approximately 400 KES per day. As at now, I only make 200 KES on a good day. With the reduced earnings, I really struggle to run my tailoring business."

"I am physically disabled (cannot walk well), and a single mother who depends mainly on subsistence farming to earn a living. Since I am the sole breadwinner of my family of four, I have always yearned to establish a shop business since I feel that I can comfortably handle it. Unfortunately, I have never managed to raise the required capital because our subsistence farming could barely sustain us. God has wonderfully made my dream come true since I will use GiveDirectly's transfer to startup the business. I will establish the shop in my compound because I am strategically positioned in my village."

"Managing to sustain and grow my small business has been very beneficial especially since I no longer have to burden my sons with financial responsibility and the funds have also enabled me to cater for the tuition of my grandchildren which is very vital to me since I they have been my sole responsibility ever since their mother, my daughter passed away."

"The transfers have given me a form of empowerment because ever since I lost my spouse some years back the finances became very hard and most times I have to rely on my daughter who does manual jobs from time to time to provide for both me and her but ever since the money came I managed to ensure I could afford a meal because at times I had to go to bed hungry and hopefully in the near future the funds will help me rebuild my house which has been long overdue so I am grateful."

"The sustainability and growth has been quite tremendous both financially and mentally and I am so glad that finally my children are going to fit in just like the other children and I am so sure they will be very elated."

"The funds have created sustainability especially in the financial aspect because apart from my one child, I also play a father figure role to my three nephews since they became my responsibility after the passing of their mother who was my sister, and at times providing for them was very difficult but with the funds I got to keep my business flourishing and in turn help in raising and growing my family with no difficulty as compared to before."

"At home my father and I are the ones who are relied upon to provide for the family and we both rely on casual and manual jobs to earn a living and sustain the family, so the funds could not have come at a better time in my life because they provided great assistance financially especially since at times when we were not lucky enough to find any work, we would spend the day with no food and still go to bed hungry which was very difficult for the children."

"One of the challenges I am currently facing is food insecurity. With a family of six and an average of KES.300 per day, we have not been able to buy all the necessities needed at the time. We sometimes skip some meals when we don't have enough foodstuffs. This is one thing that does not go down well with me. I feel bad when I can not give my children proper meals in a day."

"Upon receiving my transfer, I used KES 25000 to complete the construction of a house that I had started building before enrollment but left it incomplete due to insufficient funds. In addition, I spent KES 15000 to equip this house with furniture, mainly seats, and tables. From the remaining amount, I spent KES 5000 to buy a calf as a way of investing this money and spent KES 9000 on food and clothes."

"As you can see I'm currently building my new house therefore i am very glad because this money will be used towards the construction and finishing of this house that I'm building. Additionally i will use it to buy food and a mattress and beddings."