"Receiving this money means having a descent housing for me. I am a farmer and usually depend on dairy farming and agriculture. My main activity here is keeping dairy. In a month I usually get approximately KES. 9,000. In some occasions where we receive adequate rainfall I have bananas which I can sell and get upto KES.20,000.I have been doing all this for some years now but used the cash to pay for school fees. I recently started to build a new house and this Give directly transfers is a greater boost to me.I plan to spend the entire transfers to purchase iron sheets."

"I'm a subsistence farmer and so I would like to buy an ox drawn plough to boost my scale of operations and lower the cost. I own three acres of land which I use for maize production. Over the time I have been using commercial ones that are expensive on the long run hence exaggerating my input."

"The inadequacy of financial resources is steadily crippling my children's education. They are always home to collect school fees areas and each time I have to take them back and lie to the teachers to earn them a little more time. This works temporarily but I wish I had a permanent solution better than giving false hope"

"It's always been such a big challenge keeping my six children in school throughout an academic term, especially the three who are in high school paying about 120,000 KES annually and also levies for the other three still at grade level. This is still the family's biggest financial burden for my husband as a sole provider who has just a meager wage from casual construction jobs. I think I will be able to support should I start receiving my transfers."

"Receiving this money means financial freedom. For 2 years now, I have stayed without a cow because I sold the one I owned to pay school fees for my son when he joined secondary school two years ago. My husband and I depend only on casual jobs to earn a living so as to support our family of 4. The KES 200 we earn daily is not enough to cater for food and at the same time pay school fees. I am happy that the transfers I will get from Givedirectly will relieve me from this. I plan on buying two dairy cows at 40,000 and when it calf's it can produce about 5 litres of milk per day that I can sale for KES 150. This will be a reliable source of income to my family and the rest of transfers I will use it to pay school fees for my son."

"The challenges I am currently facing is financial constraints. I am carpenter and with this bad economy securing a job nowdays is difficult. Before I used to earn KES 500 per day but nowadays I hardly earn anything for the whole month. This forced me to sell some of my property to raise school fees for my children."