"The biggest difference in my daily life is owning my oxen. Farming will be easier henceforth as a result. We will be having enough food because I used to dig my farm myself. I will be able to achieve more with the oxen because they can plough bigger spaces within a shorter time compared to ploughing with bare hands."

"Since I installed the internet services, I have been working more comfortably and I can do more work compared to what I did before. I no longer have network problems hence my earnings have really increased meaning that I can now easily pay my bills and comfortably take care of my personal needs."

"My husband is employed as a vegetable vendor in Mombasa. He earns a salary of 4000 shillings a month, an amount that is not able to meet all our basic needs. With this transfer, my spouse will start his own grocery business because he is more experienced in it. This will earn us more income that we will use to cater for food, clothing and medical needs. We will also save and build a more spacious house since the current one is very small. We will also use part of this transfer to educate our two siblings who are total orphans."

"The biggest hardship I face is living in a bad conditioned house. Since we live in a plain area, we are often adversely affected by the floods which makes our house extremely inhabitable. This condition has often led to massive destruction of our property hence subjecting us to constant suffering."

"The biggest hardship is that during wet seasons like these we have not much work in the farms. We work and at times not paid with promises for the following day. This causes my family to miss meal."

"This money means that I will be able to build a new house. Building a new house is of great priority because my mother was a second wife and my step mother refused the Givedirectly program and sent us away from her home, that is why I relocated to this little shelter which I must use the cash transfer to build a new house. I had to send my wife back to her parents because the weather condition in this current house would affect the health of our child. I will set aside part of the transfer to buy some cows that shall eventually produce milk for the family."

"The biggest hardship I face in my life is the inability to provide meals for my family members. My husband and I depend on unreliable casual labour which are poorly paid. In addition, we never had adequate harvest in the previous season since our crops were destroyed by flood leaving us in a state of desperation."

"A plan to buy and own a cow has been my dream since the year 2003 when I got a chance to work as a housegirl in a family which had many milk-producing cows. Planning that now and seeing it come to pass is really the biggest difference in my life because before I got married I was in a family with no cows and I also was married to a family with no cows. All my breakfast have been routinely made of black tea and it has always been my prayer that one day I would be able to at least be buying milk or even milking from my own cows. I thank GiveDirectly for making this possible."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is the peace and pride I have for owning a home for the first time in my life. It has always been tough and challenging staying in my late mothers-in-law house. Finally, I can afford a peaceful sleep and I can walk with my head up like other fellow women since the pride of every woman is to own a home."

"I think in the near future I will start using better fertilizers from one acre fund that I have always not been able to use due to their high prices. The high quality fertilizers will enable me get more farm harvest at the end of the planting season which will then translate to more food for the family."