"Educating my children has been my biggest motivation in life.I am planning on raising some cattle on my farm . When they produce, I will sell them to educate all my children in school.When I'm no more able financially to support my family, they will be the one looking after the family."

"Givedirectly is a unique organisation that provides direct cash to improve our lives without paying them back. I wasn't capable of getting a home. But with the help of Givedirectly funding, I'm now becoming a home owner."

"I'm a mother of three children.We live in my father-in-law's house. My spouse and I engage in farming to sustain ourselves and other family members in and around my neighbouring town. Sometimes things got a bit tough on us when we had to go to other farms in search of food before we eat.Givedirectly brought relieve on my family.I'm now able to provide our daily meals. The remaining money we bought zinc plank with other building materials to start our new home."

"In the near future, I want to see all of my children graduating from school some day and be the one looking after me when I'm no longer able to do things on my own. I want to live to see my grandparents' children lying on my arm."

"My parents built a house sometimes ago where I am presently residing. The roof has lived it's usefulness and we have been experiencing leakages during rainy season. But thanks to Givedirectly through her unconditional cash transfer which has made me to re roof my parents' house."

"My plan is to build my house therefore, I spent my most recent transfer to Saw 150 pcs of planks to roof my house."

"We currently face the problem of flash floods and land slides which has always affected our gardens of food crops and cash crops like coffee and bananas leaving us with food insecurity and poverty in the way that we can not afford paying school fees for our children in good schools hence having poor performance always in class."

"I am a skillful designer, but I have not yet established my tailoring business shop. I do work from home occasionally, but it doesn't bring in much money for my family. I intend to save my monthly transfers to collect capital for starting a tailoring business shop because I already own two sewing machines. It will help me to experience a boost in my tailoring business that will go a long way in easing my family's financial burden. I aim to sell both designed clothes as well as other ready-made clothes. It will give me a steady source of income."

"I joined a saving scheme with the mindset of savings my monthly transfer till December. Consequently, I developed a goal to spend my savings on initiating poultry and livestock farming. I have chosen to invest in this since it is the only thing I can do, and it will give me a way to raise money for my daughter's school expenses. Despite the fact that I am a single mother, I would like to give her good support. By the time she will be ready to be enrolled in school, I shall have ways of raising school fees for her. I hope that will help in reducing my burden."

"As a family, we have limited investment options. Because there are not many thriving businesses in our neighborhood, it's vulnerable to this kind of circumstance. Therefore, as I continue to receive my transfer, my main goal is to increase my goat flock. Raising livestock seems more feasible to us, and we hope they will be of better return to my family. Goats grow faster and can help fetch much in case they do not succumb to the periodic drought situations that we have been experiencing in our areas. Since I only have a son who is six months old, this type of investment will go a long way in helping him."