"The biggest hardship I have faced is the challenge of paying school fees my children."

"My goal is to complete building a house in Saika estate, Njiru ward, where I own a piece of land. I hope to no longer pay rent which takes up a large amount out of my monthly income."

"In the next six months, I expect my life to have changed for the better. I will no longer be selling perishables that most of the time goes bad and that meant losses for the business most of the times. My typesetting business will be running and giving me income."

"My life will change in that I will have more dairy cows, more money from my dairy and more ability to pay bills and leading a generally happy family."

"In the next six months, I expect the number of my goats to increase. I shall use part of my transfers to buy more goats which I shall add to my flock. I shall then prioritize to use part of my goats to pay dowery. As a result, I shall be able to live peacefully with my wife without worries on how to arrange to pay her dowry."

"I spent my transfers to pay my rent, to pay school fees for my children and to purchase household goods and items such as meals. I wash clothes for pay here in Mathare and in the neighboring areas such as Eastleigh, while my husband is not employed. My husband used to work and provide for us until the year 2007 during the post-election skirmishes in Kenya, that his arms were butchered and badly injured by an illegal sect group that was known as 'Mungiki'. His joints were injured and the doctors had to place metal wires to join his arms. Since then, he is unable to work and we have been depending on my casual engagements. The transfers have played a really big role in terms of supplementing the meager income that I receive from my casual jobs. I am very grateful to Give Directly."

"In the next six months, I would have built my house an would start saving to buy a heifer. As a young adult, I wish to own some livestock which will enable me to pay for dowry when I will get married. I will have bought at least one heifer and will be living a happy man knowing that the future is well set to start a family."

"In the next six months, I expect to enroll my son to an electrical course in one of the colleges with a good reputation within my county. This will make him the right knowledge and skills that will help him to earn a decent life in the future. When he succeeds in his studies, we shall be able to remember this as one of the noble investment we must have made with the GiveDirectly's transfers."

"In the next six months, I expect to be fully engaged in my poultry keeping and dairy businesses where I will accumulate more income to help me actualize most of my family's needs. I also expect to have my own motorbike and been able to at least pay half of the loan that bought the motorbike."

"Life is different than it would have been because I and children are nolonger sickly due to improved feeding in the family, and we can now afford to hire oxen to plough gardens to grow food crops hence more food at home. Before, I could not get grow enough food crops because one has to have money to hire oxen plough gardens, and the family used to feed only on 'Eboo' and 'Atap' every day, be it lunch or supper. Thanks to this money, I can now afford variety of food."