"I felt so happy the moment I received my first transfer. I remember it was very early in the morning when I heard my phone ring and on checking it, I just realized that I had received money from GiveDirectly as earlier promised. I had just received a sum of 55000 KES. I immediately informed my spouse and children who were so happy to hear this. After breakfast, we budgeted with my spouse on how to spend the money as we laid down priorities on what to spend the money on first."

"I would still want to continue investing in the business by adding more stock. I am determined to ensure I grow my business to a wholesale level. Retail level is not doing well and the income is not much. I would want to have maximum profit from the business so that I can provide a better future for my family."

"My expectation in the near future is to go back and continue with my education. Once I am done with this, I hope to secure a good job and make my life better out of this. I can only do this by investing the little I have at the moment in order to afford my current needs and future goals. I am still thinking of the best business Idea that will enable me to prosper in life. Apart from that, I also wish to grow as a runner professionally. All this will depend on how things turn out with time."

"I will have bought a sewing machine and God willing I will also have rented a shop where I will be doing my tailoring work to earn a living. This has been my dream and at the look of things it is soon coming to pass."

"In the next six months, my life will have changed in that I will have opened a shop in our town. I will be running this shop so that I can avoid running into a loss because of the misappropriation of funds. Also, I expect that I will have expanded my poultry keeping project. I will be using the income from this project to cater for our daily needs."

"My expectation in the near future is that my life will be better. This is because, I believe my poultry project will have expanded hence more income to the family. I will also have purchased a dairy cow, which will cut down my expenses since I will no longer be purchasing milk for my family consumption. My life generally will improve because I will now have sufficient income and will no longer do casual jobs for pay. This means I will have more time to rest as well as spend with my family at home. I will also dedicate more time to improve my farming"

"I intend to spend Givedirectly money for buying oxen and ox-plough. I will be ploughing with the oxen large acrage to maximise production. I will be selling some of the produce to raise money for building a house in my plot. The house build I will be renting it out hence making money for other family developments."

"Receiving this money means I will be able to buy a piece of land that I can cultivate and oxen that will support in the cultivation activity. These will increase food productivity in my home."

"Receiving this money means that I will be able to buy land for my children. I have children ,unfortunately the inherented land is to small for them to establish thier homestead in future. The land once I buy will be divided amongest them to avoid conflicts."

"Receiving this money means I will be able to build an iron roofed house. The one that I have is grass thatched which also leaks. Grass is scarce these days so finding it is so hard. I will also take care of the education needs of my children if I receive this money. I believe the future of my children will be better if I educate them."