"My expectation in the near future is to be financially stable. I want to be in a position where I can look after my children and well be abke to orovide all their needs. I also expect to buy a piece of land of my own since I don't want to solely depend on my ancentral land since its getting overstretched every passing time. I want to generally ensure that our lifestyle is improved and live a more comfortable life more than we are now."

"I plan to buy new motorcycle, and the current one will be repaired, this will enable me to create employment for others and will be sure of KES 300 in a day to do other projects. I plan to save the daily income until it will make me qualify for credit service from the bank."

"As I have quoted earlier, there is a plan in place to start poultry keeping project and purely local breed, this is easy to manage because they are resistant to diseases. I have realized the demand for chickens in local hotels in the region and this will help me fetch more money to sustain the family even after the end of the program. Now I eat the meals which are necessary for my body and payment of fees is easy unlike before when I could walk to relatives to look for financial support."

"My life is currently different from how it was in that, I have paid dowry. My wife is legally mine. My parents in law had been pressurizing me to the extent of sending me messages and endless phone calls to pay dowry being that I had stayed with their daughter for six and a half years without actualizing this process. I had promised them twice but failed due to lack of money. I am glad that I am free and at peace after paying dowry using part of my first and second transfer. Nowadays I don't dread receiving their calls. When they call we hold normal conversations without issues of dowry coming up. Thanks to Give directly for saving my Image. I don't know where I could have gotten the money to settle the debt."

"My life is currently different than how it would have been if I never received the transfer because I managed to buy seats and other household's items such as utensils and a mattress. I was rendered a very poor man in my community who owned nothing meaningful.I am now quite respectable because I also have a sugarcane farm like my neighbours. I also bought a sheep which I would keep as an investment that I can sell to make money in case of a financial emergency."

"My life is different from how it would have been if I never received a transfer because I managed to take my daughter to high school. I never thought of taking my daughter to school because I earned very little from the farm labour jobs that I do that I could not manage to save enough for her school fees. I also managed to buy new chairs in my house because the ones I formerly had were old and had broken arms and legs. My living standard has greatly changed because I can manage to get meals and also bought new clothes for my household members unlike the past when having all meals in a day was unheard of."

"My life is currently different from how it would have been if I never received the transfers because I managed to revive my sugarcane farming. Most people in my area are sugarcane farmers and this is the main activity practised which is also a symbol of wealth. My farm had been fallow for many years because I could not raise enough money from my casual labour jobs to spend on buying the required farm inputs and labour for my sugarcane farm. I am glad that through GiveDirectly transfers I am able to work on my farm again and I will be earning more income from it."

"The biggest hardship I have faced is high dependency ratio in the family.From the time I was employed as a teacher,I have been concentrating on supporting my siblings through education and other basic needs.By the time I was done with them,the responsibilty of educating my own children came in.This has left me with no resources to initiate other personal projects even though I have been emplyed for so many years."

"My biggest hardship is financial constraint.Much as my business is trying it's best to sustain most of the household needs,it is hardly enough to stretch as far as paying school fees consistently for all my seven children.On many occasions, they have been sent back home due to fee arrears and this greatly contributes to poor performance since they end up missing so many study sessions."

"Attaining finances to enable me seek treatment for my sons sickness is the biggest hardship that I face in life.For the past six years,he has been suffering from an undiagnosed foot condition that has gradually caused his right foot to swell and the wound is ever fresh. It has refused to heal despite all my efforts to seek treatment in different hospitals. All tests have been conducted including the diabetes test but they all turn out negative.The painful part for me as a mother is that he is always in so much pain and was even forced to drop out of school when it became impossible for him to be going regularly yet I have no way of helping him. This treatments have drained most of our resources and I can only hope that one day we will be able to get a cure for his illness."