"In the next six I expect to have started cattle keeping and can sell them when I have any emergency to attend to."

"In the next six months l expect to have started pay school fee for my child with minimal struggling."

"In the next six months l would have started my own salon and getting money out of it and supporting my grandmother. "

"In the next six months, I expect that the poultry keeping project will be generating me more income. My parents’ income is not that stable that can finance my college education and with this project, I will be able to see myself through college."

"In the next six months l expect to have change the look of my house by renovating it through plastering cracked wall. I will be staying in a good looking house that I have been longing to have."

"I did a course in welding and currently, I'm employed in someone's workshop. I do not find it productive because I'm paid on commission so in the next six month of my life I expect to have saved enough money to purchase the welding equipment so that I open my workshop. With this, I'll earn more which enable me to comfortably meet my family's needs and goals."

"A few years ago when the government of Kenya forcefully evicted people from the Mau forest for encroachment, my parents became victims. Homes and schools were reduced to ashes and we became squatters for a long time. Myself and other school attending children inevitably became casual labourers in a nearby community so as to collaboratively provide for the family with our parents. My one time spirit and dream of becoming a teacher was ostensibly quashed by an impasse in which I had no control over. My life would be different now had I received education to college level. Right now I am a single mother of two who cannot fully provide a life of dignity to my children. With no stable source of income, my worry was seeing my children drop out of school in future due to poverty. But thanks to GiveDirectly cash transfer program, I am about to rewrite my story. "

"Its been 5 yrs since my son was diagnosed of epilepsy that affected him mentally. This is the biggest hardship i have faced since all the money i earn from selling milk as well as engaging in casual jobs such as weeding and tilling peoples farms end up in hospital and no money is left for savings. This worries me alot since i keep on wondering if i will ever establish bigger projects that could empower me financially."

"Being a casual worker, i work in peoples homes in order to earn a living to enable me provide for my family. However, its not usually a guarantee for me to get any job daily hence as the breadwinner of my family, this worries me. Unreliable source of income is therefore the biggest hardship i have faced"

"I was diagnosed of athritis 6 years ago, a disease that has greatly affected my health and productivity since i cant engage in activities such as farming, something that i used to depend on for living before the disease cropped in. I now fully depend on my children to provide for me which makes me feel like im being a burden to them. This is the biggest hardship i have faced"