"As my health continues to decline and prevents me from working on physically demanding jobs, I plan to invest my monthly stipend in starting a livestock business to generate income. This will help reduce the burden on my husband as the sole breadwinner. Additionally, I intend to use a portion of the transfer to provide my son with the best education possible, allowing him to have a better future than our current situation."

"I wish for the difficult days to end soon. It is my hope that before the year ends, I can pay off all my children's school fees debts so that they can continue their education uninterrupted and make up for the time lost at home. Furthermore, I aspire to provide my family with consistent meals to keep them motivated in their studies."

"RE " In my opinion, givedirectly did and is doing very well. Through this program some of us are bless and grateful ". Without givedirectly i don't know think i was going to reach this far."

"My plan for the coming year is to grow my little farm by purchasing more land, which will allow me to strengthen both my subsistence and animal farming operations. By doing so, I hope to raise the amount of food I produce while decreasing my dependency on purchasing additional food. In addition, I intend to start keeping cows on my farm, which will supply my family with a sustainable source of dairy products. To accomplish this goal, I will save from the short crop season and leasehold farming, as well as investigate financing options that would allow me to acquire the additional property I require. Finally, I hope that this expansion will enable me to become more self-sufficient and capable of providing all my family's needs."

"Prior to receiving the initial cash transfer from GiveDirectly, I depended on selling illicit alcohol to local customers as a source of income. This presented several challenges, and I often faced arrest and hefty fines. However, the cash transfer provided me with relief from the illegal business, and I am now dedicating my efforts towards improving my farming activities, which I anticipate will yield greater rewards. Additionally, I have chickens and a bullock that I expect will grow and be useful in the future. With the second transfer, I spent $280 on purchasing a large water tank, which I am currently setting it up to collect rainwater and store seasonal piped water delivered to my doorstep. I also spent $15 on transportation fees for the tank and $110 on food for my family of five. I am pleased that we still have sufficient food, and I hope to replenish our supplies when we receive the next transfer. I used the remaining funds to pay off a milk debt at a nearby shop, purchase household items, and buy a few clothes for my children. I am grateful to GiveDirectly for their support and look forward to accomplishing more in the future."

"I want to become a successful business man. I'm buying more cattle to raise on my farm so that people will travel from other places to purchase some from me. In the future, when I have many cattle, I want to build a better house to raise them properly."

"Currently it's dry season, and the rains are not much, we don't have major challenges. But when it starts to rain am worried because water comes from uphill and floods my entire compound . Also the seeds that we can use to plant are now so expensive due to scarcity. We buy a kilogram of beans for sowing at $2 yet initially we used not buy them."

"The second transfer is $450 came at a time that I had two of my children joining junior secondary school and secondary school at the same time. I therefore used at least $200 to pay their school fees in full and settled them in school. Had we not received this transfer then we would have been forced to go borrowing some money from a table banking group in which I am part of and later pay back the same in instalments. I then used another $120 to buy food and clothes for my family. We have been facing a serious prolonged drought over the recent past which has rendered our farms quite unproductive. Receiving this money and using it to buy food was such a great relief for me and my six children who look up to me to meet the basic household needs and other wants for them. It was also an opportunity for me to start up a business and we came together with my sister who also received a transfer and started a small business at a nearby center. We right now have a small business to run where we operate a shop and an Mpesa shop as well. Here we make up to $60 per month as profit which we are so much proud of. It is something I have never done in my life and which has even motivated me to dream more and achieve more."

"My husband was ill for four years before he passed away, and we visited many hospitals which depleted our livestock investment and forced us to sell a plot of land we owned in a nearby shopping center. Life has been difficult since his death, and as a single mother of seven, I've struggled to provide even one meal a day. Fortunately, I received a cash transfer from GiveDirectly, which allowed us to have enough food in our home. I used the most recent transfer of money to buy a $65 sack of maize for food, paid $146 in overdue tuition for my son who attends a technical polytechnic school and paid for my other son's remedial charges in primary school. In the past, I relied on selling seasonal mango fruits from my farm, but it wasn't enough to cover all of our expenses. I also used $30 of the remaining money to finish constructing a pit latrine. I started with the first transfer, and I paid $25 for labor to demolish and transport materials from the plot my husband and I had built on. I saved the rest of the money to buy food and household items."

"I'm hopeful to see myself and my spouse living in our new home a year to come.We want to establish our own cocoa plantations in the future to enable me to look after my family."