"Receiving the money will help me so much first and foremost I it will help me pay for my hospital bills I was involved in an accident am really grateful that this money will help me with hospital expenses, with the change in plan on building a nice house cause the one we staying in now is small and we share it with livestock."

"Receiving this money from GiveDirectly means I will be able to start my own business to support my husband because he is currently the sole breadwinner in the household. I am planning to use KES 50,000 from the transfer to start a retail shop in the village. There is a big gap in the village in that people are forced to walk for 2 hours to get to the nearest kiosk. Even after walking for the two hours, there is no guarantee that you will get the commodities you want. I will specialize on selling food stuffs and learning materials and this will earn me handsome profits. I will use the balance to buy two indigenous cows and an ox-plough for subsistence farming so as to boost my household food productivity capability. This will assure that my household has enough food. I can also hire the ox-plough to neighbours at a price thus increasing my household's income."

"Receiving this money means I will be able to settle all the debts I borrowed from my neighbours as I wanted to take my daughter to school. My daughter was joining secondary school and I did not have the required amount of money to cater for the shopping, admission fees and tuition fees. I was forced to borrow a total of KES. 35,000 from neighbours. Immediately I receive my first transfer from GiveDirectly, I will use KES. 35,000 to settle all the debts so that I can build trust with my neighbours. I will use a further KES. 6,000 to buy a new mattress so that I can have some peaceful sleep at night. I will use the balance to buy enough food for my family. Sometimes, drought in our area is so persistent to an extent that we fail to harvest anything. This leads to food insecurity and the money I will receive will ensure that my family is supplied with enough food."

"Receiving this money means proper education for my daughter and at the same time revive my firewood selling business. My daughter completed secondary school in 2019 and performed well. However, due to financial constraints in my household, I have been unable to take my daughter to college or any other institution of higher learning. I am planning to use KES. 50,000 to support in paying my daughters college fees. I will use a further KES. 15,000 to revive my firewood selling business. I have been engaging myself in selling firewood for a decade now but the harsh economic conditions brought about by the Covid 19 pandemic really affected my business and I had to close. With the KES. 15,000, I am assured of making a monthly profit of KES. 13,000 which is a great profit in as far as businesses in the rural setting is concerned. I will use the balance from the GiveDirectly transfers to buy food for my family. Doing all this will make me a happy woman and accord me the reputation I have always desired to get from my village people."

"Recieving this money means I will have better home and my health status will be improved, I have been aspiring to have a descent house made of rough timber and cement the floor. We have stayed with my wife in a muddy house where there is dust all over and hence coughing has been a normal routine to us, which is a health hazzard and being that we are at our older age, we are not able to afford proper medications. We are very delighted about Givedirectly transfers and that I plan to spend KES.70,000 to buy house materials and use the remaining balance to pay for labour."

"Since my husband left us to Nairobi where he secured a casual job as a security guard, I have had a piece of mind with my children since working at night in Nairobi as a guard is not an easy task, we have always been spending most of our time praying for him. I will be privileged to get the transfers from Givedirectly."

"Since I lost my husband, my son who was at that time in Collage had to drop for the sake of his siblings who were in secondary, I have all along been doing casual jobs within my village in order to buy food and pay little money to school, this has really been a tall order for me to achieve in life."

"Upon receiving my transfer, I became so happy and we discussed as a family on what we would invest this money on so that we would continue experiencing GD's touch in our lives and due to this, we spent KES 15000 to rent a room and to start a butchery business in our neighboring town. We will be using the profits from it to pay school fees for our children on time and to cater for some of our basic needs. Also, we spent KES 24000 to pay school fees for our daughter in high school who had been sent back home and as a way of upgrading our wardrobe, we spent KES 7000 on clothes and KES 9000 on two sacks of maize and other foodstuffs for our consumption."

"It was on Thursday 19th of August at 9.45 am when I heard my phone vibrate notifying me that I had received an SMS. I immediately checked the sender since I was anxiously waiting for my transfer as I had been promised that I would receive it before date 20th of August. Upon confirming that it was indeed a Mpesa message from GiveDirectly, I became so happy as I knew that my life would never remain the same again since I was planning to spend them wisely."

"Upon receiving my transfer, I spent KES 20000 to purchase a heifer as a way of investing this money. I decided on this since it won't take long before it calves and provide us with enough milk that we have always wished for. I will be selling this milk and use the money to pay school fees for my children. Also, I used KES 5500 to pay school fees for my daughter who had been sent back home, managed to spend KES 8000 on clothes and beddings and KES 9600 on two sacks of maize for our consumption. I still have KES 10000 that I am planning to use in buying a barbed wire to use in fencing my land."