"The struggle of hunting for animals for sale , making farm every year for the family to survive with my bare hands are among the many challenges I face with every year of my life . I am so challenge nowadays to undertake these processes of gathering those things that enable my family to survive because of my old age . And as the result, life has become unbearable for my family and I thereby making my wife to get on boat to Buchanan to sell coconut for our survival ."

"When I get my money, I will make business for me to go back to school, because I want to learn and become someone better. And to take care of my mother."

"When I get the money, if it is plenty, I will build my house. I think it will benefit me and my children tomorrow."

"What iam challenged with at the moment is that my children's school is about to open and i still dont have money to pay their school fees."

"My current challenge is lack of finances to the extend that i have to borrow wrapper to wear if i have to go for antenal, i have only one and cannot afford to get more."

"I wasn't able to support myself in school so I drop out of school and ended up as a village farm so once I get this transfer I will support my children with their educations so they can't end up their lives like me."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have purchased the building materials. I am ready to start the construction process. I live in a small house and this cannot host all the family comfortably. I have always wished to build a house but I didn't have the money. I depend on small-scale farming and the harvest is so small. I am not in a position to sell the surplus. whenever I have visitors I would host them outside the house and this so discouraging. When I received the transfer from GiveDirectly I felt so happy because I was able to purchase all the materials needed at once. I have hope that I will build a decent and a better house for my family. I will be able to sleep in a dusty free house. I will have enough space to host my visitors. I will no longer shy off like before. I am so happy because GiveDirectly has given me hope for better tomorrow."

"In my opinion GiveDirectly does well buy giving money to the poor in the community to build better houses and buy dairy cow. I do not fine anything that GiveDirectly did not do well."

"We have only one lactating cow that gives us approximately five liters of milk daily. We would sell two liters of the milk to gain some income ( a liter is sold at KES 30). Unfortunately, the income could not adequately suffice our financial demands yet we have no other sources of funds. Even so, we would consume any remaining amount of the milk since it acts as one of our staple food items. As such, we have been struggling to expand our herd in vain due to a lack of capital. As such, receiving this money means that we shall acquire more dairy cows to providers with additional liters of milk. So, I plan to use about KES 80000 of the transfer on purchasing two cows. Eventually, we shall obtain more income, make significant savings, and remain well-nourished, thanks to the anticipated increase in the volume of the milk we shall be having."

"The challenge I'm facing now is that, my body hurts because of the old age. If I see this money, I will be able to go to the hospital for good treatment."