"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is inadequacy of land. What is available for cultivation is too small to accommodate all that I would wish to plant. This same piece of land is used every season. Sometimes the yield is low because the land is over used. This has always resulted into food shortage in my family. "

"Receiving this money means I will be able to buy oxen that I can use for ploughing. I also hope to spend this money on treatment. I have been sick for a very long time but I have never had money to get better treatment. The best I have done is to buy pain killers and swallow which does not help. "

"As I was paying the remaining amount for the land, I was also running another house construction project in our household. I had to halt it a bit when I saw the need for completing one at a time and now that I have completed the payment of the farm, it is a good time now to resume. I am hopeful that this project will be complete before long and in my projection, December will be the month. Thanks to GiveDirectly for changing our lives."

"My first priority, I will go back to college and study hairdressing. I have been working in Eastleigh washing clothes and I would want to be self- employed by running my own business. The money I receive from washing clothes is not enough for my upkeep. Secondly, I will buy salon equipment after finishing college. I will buy equipment as I will be looking for a place to open my business. Thirdly, I will rent a shop in Mashimoni, Mathare. I am well known in Mashimoni, this will provide a ready market for my business and I expect to get alot of profit in return."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I shall have increased the parcel of land under nappier grass cultivation for my livestock to feed on. This will facilitate a continuous supply of feeds for my livestock even during the dry season. Therefore, I would be certain of getting enough supply of milk for my family's consumption after selling some. I will have also built a stable for my sheep that has a raised floor with some holes where their wastes will be passing through when cleaning. This will facilitate easy collection of these waste to be used as manure."

"In the next six months, I want to ensure I pay school fees for my grandchild so that he may not be sent home for the same. I will pay the balance bit by bit until I clear the balance. I would want to give him what his parents would have given him."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I shall have bought a dairy cow. Meaning, the milk supply will increase and market my business even to other villages where I am also planning to sell in purposely to double my profits. In addition, I will have cemented my kitchen and the sanitation levels in it will have risen."

"In the next six months, I would want to buy building materials such as iron sheets, timber, and nails which I will use in building shed for chicken. It is my determination to start a poultry business and I would want to get prepared well before buying the chicken."

"In the next six months, I expect my life to have improved in that I shall have harvested increased produce which will be enough to sell the surplus so that I can use the money in providing other household necessities to my family. I also expect to have an increase in the quantity of green tea leaves that will increase the amount my monthly earning out of distributing them in the nearby factory for pay and in turn, use this my salary to do other developments at home."

"In the next six months, I would want to buy building materials so as to build my own house. I do not have a house now and it is my priority to build a house so that I better my life."