"I have kept my money to buy furniture for my house after plastering. I've decided to buy living room chair set, one mattress along with a bed. The rest of my money will be kept for food and health challenges in the near future. I am using my money this way because I want to have a good place to stay; I also want to be comfortable in my house and sleep well and peaceful at night."

"I hope to continue making my farm."

"I hope to start doing a business and continue making my farm that will help me in the future."

"I spend my recent money on building my house and I also paid my children's school fees."

"I felt so happy the moment I received money from GiveDirectly. I heard my phone ring and I asked one of my children called Sokome to confirm for me whether I had indeed received money from GiveDirectly. She is the only person who knows my Mpesa pin and whom I trust with my phone. When she confirmed that indeed I had been sent the money then I asked her to help me in purchasing some of the things that I already had in mind. I also had one of my children who was in college and I had really struggled to raise money to pay her school fees. This was such a huge relief for me."

"When I received my most recent transfer I used part of it-$50 to buy new clothes for my grandchildren who normally stay with me and help me with house chores and company. I felt that they had a right to feel happy too because of this blessing that we received as a family. I then used another $50 to buy my own clothes. I then used the remaining amount to buy food and other basic household needs that lasted me a couple of days before it got depleted. Getting enough money to buy all these things at a go was just a dream for me for all those days. GiveDirectly brought smiles to my entire family and I cannot thank them enough. I intend to use the second transfer to buy a water tank that will help me have access to clean drinking water and safe me from the danger of drinking dirty water and the shortages that we normally undergo especially during periods like these of long dry spells."

"I hope to complete my house before this year end"

"GiveDirectly does well by giving money without conditions on how to use the money. The unconditionallity on how to use. Looking at what it has done to me and my family can only be grateful."

"In the next one year and beyond I hope to accomplish a lot with help of GiveDirectly funds and other income from secondary sources such as business. Though there is a lot of competition when it comes to the honey business I expect that with the boost that I received from GiveDirectly transfers I will be able to reach out to more customers and definitely make more profits that will change my life and that of my family for the better. I also look forward to planting drought resistant crops such as mangoes and bananas that will turn around our living standards and that of my family."

"Being a widow, am the only person that my three children (one is in junior high school, one in grade eight, and the other one in grade six) count on for provision. I want to be capable of supporting their basic needs like food and education but am afraid my practice of making charcoal may not go a long way. That is why, I wish to use the cash transfers to secure goats to grow my wealth as they reproduce. In the future, I will sell them to cater to my children’s needs. As I save to buy the goats, I also wish to spend part of the money on constructing an extra room in my house. The current one-room space is quite small to accommodate the four of us. "