"Currently, I am still monitoring the situation so I cannot really cite a particular biggest difference in my life, although the food I got to buy for the family stands to be the difference in my life because we do not have to worry about meals anymore."

"The biggest difference in my life I can say is the ability GiveDirectly gave me to address the challenges that before I was not able to. It enabled me to have answers to questions that I could not find answers for and that makes me so happy and grateful. I was able to get medical attention and took my son to college, I am so happy and hopeful that in the future my son will be in a position to help me because he will be employed courtesy of his education."

"Currently my biggest challenge is finding food for my family. I am married with one step daughter now. I also support my other two kids whose mother and I divorced. Its not easy, i have to work hard everyday but stilll the earning of about MK7,000 a week from casual labor could not do it."

"Currently the greatest challenge am facing is shortage of food for my family. I am a farmer but every year I don't get enough yields to sustain us for the whole year because I usually don't have enough farm inputs especially fertilizers. This has been a challenge and am hopeful with the transfers my life will change"

"Getting this money means a secure and proper shelter for my family. Currently, I live in a small house covered with grass on the roof. This kind of a house is not safe for my family since any kind of fire broke out can completely destroy everything. Again, this house does not guarantee good shade during rainy season. Therefore, my plan to put up a two roomed house will provide my family a safe and secure place to live in. I intend to use approximately 20000KES."

"I currently have a challenge in taking care of the safety of my unborn child. Am expecting to give birth any moment from now. Whenever I conceive, I develops persistent pain from day one to the day I will deliver. It's a condition that the doctors have recommended a scan to establish the cause of all the pain am experiencing. I have been worried of how I will deliver my child because this conditions causing a lot of pain. I can not sleep well or eat. It's a very sad situation that I don't have money to visit the recommended health facility."

"Firstly I would buy bricks and build a thatched house which would cost me around 200000 thousand kwacha. I would build a thatched house because I want to use the rest of the money to buy food and school clothes for my children."

"I would use the money to buy iron sheets becaue my house leaks during the rainy season. I would also use the money buy food because we had a poor harvest this year."

"Firstly I would be the happiest person because then I would find fees for my children. Secondly I would build a house since am renting a place right now. I would also use the money to buy blankets for my children."

"I was the only one fortunate enough to go to university in my family. My parents had to sell most of there land to see me through my education. Currently my father has a medical problem where his bladder is no longer useful. He is forced to use some pipes that subsidize as a bladder and this has put so much strain in his health. I earn a salary of KES 30,000 which is all used for his medical expenses. Every day a nurse visits our home to change his artificial bladder and we have to pay KES 300, I'm forced to sometimes borrow loans just to ensure his health is well looked at. Even though both my husband and I work, my household is forced to depend on his income while I support my parents."