"My goals have been to run a business, grow animals, and pay my children's education expenses. Due to our meager income, I have been finding it difficult to work on these tasks. As I continue to receive such transfers, my main goal is to divert a portion of my transfers to fee payment. I shall also be using a portion to buy goats for livestock keeping since most of my children are in primary school, and by the time they will join secondary school, the program shall have come to a close. Lastly, I would want to have a diversified source of income hence my plan to invest in the business."

"My goal is to buy more goats this year so that I can venture into livestock keeping. Livestock keeping is a feasible venture and I always envy my husband who has eight goats. I am hopeful that when I begin the project, it will be beneficial to me post the end of the transfer period. In addition, I also target to be spending a portion to pay school fees for my school-going children. Seeing them succeed in their academic pursuit will be my delight."

"The main challenge we are facing is hunger, we don't have enough food at home. Food deficit is mainly caused by the fact that we don't have land for agriculture. In order to get some food stuffs such as beans, cassava and sweet potatoes, we have to go to cultivate for others. Sometimes my kid go at school with an empty stomach and when I have not yet paid lunch for him school it becomes a big issue for us."

"Paying for our insurance is very hard for our family, we have a big family of 7 people and to get money to pay for it is very challenging and up to now one of our family member doesn't have an insurance. Our house is very small and it rains inside and we can't sit in the living room when it happens. Our land is very small and to be able to provide for our family we have to rent a land and that makes us do casual labour daily to be able to get the money to pay for the rent. Being able to access enough fertilisers is very expensive. We buy as little as possible to use, and we can't afford to put it in the whole land at once to help us have enough harvest."

"Because I do not have any alternative sources of funds to support my children's education, my goal with this year's transfer is to build my savings. I aim to be spending those savings on paying school fees so that they do not miss any classes. Their success in academics will be my pride as a mother because, through that, they will be able to later on be responsible people without having to rely on external support. In addition, I shall also be buying a few hens in order to run a small-scale poultry project."

"I still believe there is much to be done to improve my poultry farming, even though it appears to be performing well. So long as I keep getting my monthly transfers, my main objective is to concentrate on growing my poultry farming. I aim to raise additional fowls, which I will then sell to acquire goats. The fact that we have come this far has encouraged me since I never thought I could get do poultry farming. I also aim to start a shop business and raise money from it as well. Giving my family financial support for their education and nutrition needs will not be a burden anymore with a shop and other streams of income."

"In the near future and beyond. I am planning to hire a piece of land for farming as I own a smaller one. I will as well hire a tractor for farming instead of doing it with the help of casual labourers. This is cost-effective as compared to when it is done by the labourers. In addition, I have plans of starting up a groceries business to be run in the evenings. Groceries business has high demand as food is consumed on a daily basis. The profits earned will be enough for my young family's basic needs like food, clothing and school fees."

"Receiving these transfers from GiveDirectly has been of great help to me and my family. I am still single and never got married because I still considered myself not to be fit since I only had grass thatched and timber houses, and also had an unstable job. I feared that no woman would accept me. I struggled every day to save from the casual work I do on a construction site but I never got enough money to start building. Thank you so much GiveDirectly, from the second transfer I received, I was able to complete building my permanent house. I am now a proud iron-roofed two-roomed house owner. I also managed to buy good and healthy food for my family. What they had lacked for some time, leading to poor health."

"My primary goal is to save for my college education. It will help open job opportunities for me so that I can be a self-reliant lady in the future. I carefully considered this goal since my mother is a peasant farmer and my father is a retired teacher. They are not able to adequately support the family by meeting its endless needs. Secondly, I would wish to boost the poultry farming that my mother and I initiated last year. Currently, we have 30 fowls though we aim to raise more."

"I am a parent of three boys who are still in Primary school, they are in classes two, four and five. Before the GiveDirectly transfers, I never had any stable source of income and providing for my family had been the most difficult task I have ever faced. I used part of the transfers of kshs 30,000 to build an extension to my house as the one I had was small in size and could not accommodate our farm produce. Before the transfers, thieves could take advantage of this and most of the farm produce was stolen during the night as I could hide them behind our main house. I used the rest of the transfers of kshs 20,000 to buy more stock for my business of second-hand clothes. While the rest of the transfers of kshs 3,150 catered for basic needs like food and clothing. I thank GiveDirectly for the transfers."