"This money I plan to spend on buying land for my children. I failed in marriage and started producing at home but lack land where my children can farm and establish a home stead. Once I a quire land my children will be planting crops for consumption. They will also make money out of produce by selling some for getting other basic needs like better health ,education and shelter."

"Receiving this money means that I will be able to educate my children. Iam a widow who is so vulnerable with some children studying at secondary levels but un able to pay their fees. My children normally have no struggle doing casual labour with me for school fees. This is so much affecting their Education since getting money for school fees is alway an issue whenever the term opens. Once I manage to pay their fees earlier, they will get better grades which can make them do valuable courses and hence good paying jobs. They will be able to take care if their needs."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is lack of money to take care of my children's education needs. At the time of my husband's death, all my children were in school but as time went by, they had to drop out of school. I could not provide for them. "

"Receiving this money means I will be able to build an iron roofed house. The one that I have is grass thatched and mantainiing it is so hard the fact that grass is so scarce these days."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is lack of money. I would really want to start up a business that can generate some income for me but I don't have money to do that. Currently, I depend on agriculture for sustainability. "

"The greatest difference in my life ever since I started receiving transfers from Give Directly is that I was able to pay school fees with ease. Initially, I was thinking of calling for a fund drive or even borrowing from friends. We had sold some of our valuable assets because we urgently needed to pay school fees for our children yet we did not have stable jobs. While we were wondering what next Give Directly came to our village and chose me as one of the beneficiaries. I am among those people who were greatly relieved. I am really hopeful to regain some of the assets I had sold out"

"I want to save as much as I can within the coming months so that I can one day get a place of my own and build my own house even if it means going to build the house in the rural areas. I am currently tired of paying rent in Mathare because I am only making my landlord richer and leaving myself with little to spend and save for the future."

"My life is different than it would have been because I have cows which will reproduce and be sold to get money in future. Before, life was so hard in that there was no asset in the home to be sold and get money to solve certain issues like school fees for the children. "

"My life is different in that I now have livestock, making it a little easier, because the bulls help me to plough gardens and the cows to generate money when sold. Before, without the bulls, garden work would be done late or take a longer time to complete, and I had no asset to sell when money crisis hits me."

"My life is different in that I was able to complete paying off land originally bought, so there's peace of mind. Before, all my mind was preoccupied on how to pay the balance before someone takes advantage. I can now think of constructing my own house and this brings happiness. "