"I have a challange of having no source of income and as a result I have failed to pay school fees for all my children, the feeding is poor because our gardens were affected negatively by flash floods."

"The prospect of soon relocating to a new home with a better roof, which will alleviate the frustrations I have been experiencing with my two children during rainy seasons, has made the most significant difference in my daily life. This will also provide an opportunity to fully utilize the old structure as a kitchen in order to create more space in the new house."

"Lack of reliable sources of income and poor agricultural practices. We do not have better ways of generating income and because we largely depend on subsistence farming, I would say our crude agricultural practices also contribute in low yield that puts us all in constant poverty. Currently I'm hawking roasted peanuts through the villages and sometimes at Matanomanne trading center. It's somehow slow and can only generate around $3 daily. This much can only buy food."

"Lack of reliable source of income. My husband is a plumber based in Mombasa town, but he gets jobs from a lot of different places within the country. I don't know for a fact how much he makes, he normally sends me between $5 to $7 weekly. Myself I used to take up casual jobs around Matanomanne trading center, but since I delivered my forth born two months ago, I haven't been able to do so for the obvious reasons. The much I get from him isn't enough to pay all family bills and therefore right now my eldest child is out of school for fees areas. She pays $17 per academic term."

"LANDSLIDES SWEEP OUR CROPS AND THIS HAS LED TO CONSTANT LACK OF FOOD"

"LANDSLIDES HAPPEN WHENEVER IT RAINS WE ALWAYS SLEEP IN PANIC, THEY SWEEP OUR COFFEE PLANTATIONS AND THIS HAS BEEN DIFFICULT FOR US TO TAKE OUR CHILDREN TO SCHOOL DUE TO LACK OF MONEY"

"When I planted my vegetables (cabbage, onions) and the did not work out well in october. The rain was too much that it eroded away most of the fertilisers that we had put in gardens. The out put was so bad and we did not gain any profit. Also a challenge of lack of enough food as I have to struggle to get food for my three children and there grandmother. My children also do not go to school as they were sent away from school(St. Mary's primary school). There friends started exams today and they did not do the papers because I had not paid their fees."

"What GiveDirectly does well is empowering people in the society to become financially independent through giving them unconditional cash and leaving them at liberty of choosing how to spend the money. Continue doing the great work, as I have not seen anything that you need to improve on."

"With my second transfer, I was able to pay a down payment of ksh 15000, for a motorbike that I was planning to use it for transport business, Unfortunately my son hit someone with it and it was taken back by the dealers, luckily enough, I had already bought cows with the first transfer so I added two more with the remaining money and also bought some animals feed."

"Previously, I was living in a single room which could not accommodate both of us( parents) and our children something which made us to make the kitchen a bedroom for our children. It was a very risky environment for them because fire would easily break out burning the house thus also burning them and therefore, I would pour water on the fireplace where we used to prepare our meals everyday before going to bed. We could not afford to build a bigger house to accommodate all of us due to financial incapability as I am a peasant farmer and my husband who is the bread winner earns an average of $3 per day from operating a motorbike taxi. Being enrolled in the program was a great opportunity for us to build a big and better house. The first transfer of $550 enabled us to build a two bedroom structure and we were able to put up a roof with $350 of my second transfer. I spend $10 of the balance to buy two goats and the remaining to buy food for my family."