"Since the divorce of my mother and my father five years ago, am facing lots of challenges completing my Secondary education due to lack of money and support from family members."

"My present challenge I'm faced with is financial challenge. Currently, three of my children have graduated from high school and there is no money for them to further their educations. Because of lack of finance, my wife and I have to send them to Ivory coast for financial assistance to my elder sister and I am not happy about their being in Ivory coast, but I have to options."

"If I am successful to receive my transfer, I will use the money to buy medications for my daughter who is a epileptic patient. Her health condition is affecting me mentally and financially. At my age I always struggled by doing a daily hired Job inorder to earn money for her medications, so the transfer from Give Directly will be a great help for me and I will be relief from worries on where to get money. I will also use some of the money, if the money will be enough to build a house for us, because the house that we are currently living in is almost broken down and when ever it rains, we go displaced, looking for rescue in other people's place."

"The biggest difference in my life is that I now own a motorcycle, which enables me to move around efficiently in search of work. I am an electrician who needs to move around frequently. However, I could not afford to buy one because I only earn about KES 600 per task, if I'm lucky to get work. I was so happy to receive the transfer which enabled me to pay off the motorbike. I can now earn money and spend it on meeting my family's needs, and not on paying off debt."

"I usually wake up very early and head to work on the farm. On this particular morning, I had a message come in at 8 a.m. I checked my phone and was so surprised to see that I had received KES 55,000 from GiveDirectly. I was so happy to receive a donation of such magnitude."

"I am so appreciative of the fact that this cash transfer has enabled me to meet my family's needs. I sell second-hand clothes to earn a living. On a good day, I earn KES 300. This amount is not enough to cater for our living expenses including food, shelter, clothing and education. This has proven to be a major cause of stress in my life. So I was delighted receive this transfer that enabled me to buy a dairy cow, foodstuff and pay for my wife's college fees. We no longer spend money on buying milk and can afford at least three meals a day. Our lives have changed for the better."

"The challenges we are currently face with is the farming process, we will take all of our time to produce rice, pepper, okra, bitter ball and egg plant that will substan us atleast for a year but the wild animals will distrolled them and doing harvest season we will not be able to produce even a beg of 25kg; and due to our location there is no means of puttibg stop to this damage."

"It was around 9 AM when I was at the bush looking after my goats when my mobile phone started ringing so loudly. Since I am illiterate I asked one of my grandchildren who had accompanied me to check who might have sent the message at that particular hour. On checking, he realized that it was an Mpesa message from Segovia Technology. I was so excited and we started rejoicing and thanking God for the blessings. We opted to go back home and shared the news with my family members who had early been waiting for financial support as well."

"Initially I was not at peace as far as my children school fee is concerned. Relying on selling at most 2 bags of charcoal after two or three days was not sufficient to cater for the family upkeep and education. But the biggest difference I can attest is that I managed to settle the school fee issue and my children are comfortably continuing with their studies."

"My two secondary school children were at the verge of being sent back home from school due to school fees. Therefore, I sent KES 30000.00 to their school accounts so that they can comfortable undertake their studies. I also took paid KES 5000.00 for my daughter who is at a vocational training institute. Having settled the school issues, I bought some foodstuff for the family and the remaining amount; I am planning to buy some goats during the rainy season."