"The challenge that I am facing now is with my finances. I have a daughter who came with her children and asked me to pay for their schools fees because she was not in a position to do so. This coupled with treatment that I do monthly has drained me financially. I am also old and cannot do strenuous jobs because of my health to cater for all their needs. I have sold some of my assets such as cows and a portion of my land so that I can get money to support them and my treatment."

"My last-born daughter joined technical college two years ago to pursue a diploma course in catering. I want her to study well and progress to the next level which is undergraduate studies. I usually pay KES 55,000 per year as school fees. Since I do not have a reliable source of income, raising this amount has not been easy. Receiving this money means a bright future for her. It will enable me to buy two dairy cows at an expense of KES 70,000 to help me fulfill this plan. I expect that in the next two years I will get milk for commercial purposes, thus making me afford quality education for my daughter. The rest of the transfer I will use to clear the outstanding fee balance amounting to KES 20,000."

"This money transfer is timely and life saving to me. I am old and i have just lost my husband last month(Septermber 2021). He was my pillar and life have not been the same ever since. I am struggling to put food on the table. I also stay with my grand daughter who needs support with her education.Therefore, i will use the money to buy food for the house and provide school needs of my grand daughter."

"This transfer will help us alot, my house does not withstand heavy rains. It awalys leak and we dont sleep in such times moving things like flour around the house. We derive our livelihoods through casual labor and charcoal making and it is not enough to finance a decent house. This transfer will help me to buy cement, iron sheet and bricks to construct bew house."

"I am very thankful for GiveDirectly and the project that I managed to be involved in. I insist they continue with the good work because they are really helping people like me who needed the assistance and improving our capability to sustain ourselves especially with the unconditionality of the transfers and for that I commend this program for the good work."

"I am very glad to be part of this program. This money will enable us to fulfill our ambitions we had but failed to materialize due to lack of money. For example, we have always been struggling with our house as the grass roof leaks a lot during rainy seasons. Even our income has not been enough to sustain ourselves throughout the year."

"If I get this money from Give Directly, I will use some to fix my room and also use some to do out of town business."

"During the rainy season, it is very difficult to sleep in my house because of the lack of Zinc. My biggest problem is that, I do not have money to purchase zinc inorder to fix my house."

"I am a teacher and my salary is less than $120 per month which is not enough to feed and provide for my household since I have a huge responsibility looking at my family"

"My second born has been ailing and was hospitalized for a whole year now. He is suffering from kidney failure which has caused a lot of complications in his body. It reaches a time when he could not do anything even talking. The hospital bill has accumulated because it increases everyday. My yearning has been to take him to a referral hospital so that he can get good medication. Receiving this transfer means proper medication for him. I am intending to spend KES 50,000 on his treatment expecting that he will recover soon and proceed with his studies. Other than that, I will use up the remaining amount on constructing a spacious house because the one we are currently in is too small for my family of 8 members ."