"My life is different than it would have been if I never received the transfer since we have adequate milk for consumption and sale at our family. Unlike before when we used to buy relatively inadequate milk for consumption, my family currently enjoys sufficient milk, thus attracting better health. Moreover, we gain significant income from the sale of surplus milk. Overall, I greatly thank GiveDirectly for financial support."

"My life is currently different from how it was in that I managed to buy a second-hand motorcycle that my husband operates which has given us a reliable source of income. Today, we can comfortably meet our daily needs without doing casual jobs. Although the business has its challenges a day can not pass without earning some money. This helps us to plan our life with the little that we have. Previously, making plans was hard because my husband and I could depend on casual jobs which were unreliable in most cases."

"In the next six months, I want to boost my sardines business and make it a hotel business. I know with this, I will have a stable source of income to sustain my family needs. I would not want to go back to casual work again. Through this, I will always pay school fees for my children promptly."

"In the next six months, I want to buy a solar system. It is costly to buy keresone on a daily basis since I only depend on casual work which is not giving much. The income cannot sustain all my familyt needs hence I want to buy solar so that I can use the money on buying kerosene on other family needs."

"Had I not received the transfer from GiveDirectly, I would not have bought the cow and chicken that I am now keeping. This would mean that I would always be reminded of the pain of losing my family members and the effect that It had on us including using up most resources. So having the livestock keeps me busy and this helps me with the road towards recovery for me and family. I am grateful to GiveDirectly for holding my hand in this journey. I have now fenced my compound well with a chain link and I can now focus on livestock keeping. This will be a good source of income for my family."

"It has always been my greatest desire to live in a more decent and habitable house, unlike the one my seven children and I currently live in. The house is tiny, grass thatched, with walls already carving in, which serves as a kitchen and a bedroom at the same time. We sleep each night with the fear of being hit by collapsing walls. My first priority, therefore, is to build a more spacious, semipermanent house when I receive the first transfers. Once that is complete, I will use the remaining part to purchase goats. For us here, goat rearing is a lucrative venture in that they are not susceptible to infectious diseases and that they breed faster; twice a year."

"In the next six months, I expect my life to change in a positive way. I will have a water tank and we plan to save more money that will enable us buy land. The water tank shall be bought when we get our merry go round contributions and this will bring to an end the perennial problem of water shortage. We are going to commit my husbands pay slip and borrow a loan that will enable us buy land. The land that we are currently staying in is a family land and is already too small to allow us make any reasonable investments in it. Getting our own land shall definitely be a breakthrough for us as a family as it will open us to more opportunities of investment."

"Over the next six months, I am optimistic that I shall have been able to improve my house to a cemented floor and hopefully focus on opening up a general shop. The general shop shall enable me to have a sustainable source of income and make me self employed."

"Not having a stable source of income is the biggest hardship that I face in life. Ever since my business collapsed,my husband has remained to be the only bread winner for the family. However, his income is hardly enough to consistently sustain buying food,paying fees, and even stretch as far as buying water which is currently very scarce in our region due to the ongoing droughts. It really pains me as a mother when I have no money and I am forced to ration food for my children just so that I can save some for the following day. Much as I try to sacrifice by trekking for over three hours everyday to Jila in search of water just so that I can save the amount that would have been used to hire a motorcycle to do the same,the amount is still never enough. In the last month alone,I cannot even count the number of times that we were forced to skip one meal in order to save for the other. "

"Ever since we started burning charcoal and selling in order to get our income, our lives managed to improve a bit. However, our good days of living were short lived. Around early last year when the government placed a ban on the burning of charcoal, our source of income was greatly affected when buyers reduced significantly. We work so hard to get the product ready but there are no buyers. Our finances have greatly dwindled and affording necessary commodities around the household are proving to be too difficult by each passing day that the ban continues to exist. Farming that used to supplement for the tough times whenever we ploughed our farms has also been greatly affected by the ongoing drought. I feel like I am trapped in a financial crisis that I do not know how to escape from and I can only pray for the ban to be lifted."