"I do subsistence farming for a living. In the coming year and beyond, I am planning to hire a piece of land as the one I have is smaller in size. I will be hiring labour so as to save on the time wastage. I have been doing it with my two sons who are still schooling and it could take us a whole month to complete a piece of land. In addition to this, I will be opening up a new business of groceries to be operated by my wife. The business will specifically be taking care of the family's basic needs like food and clothing."

"We value cattle so much in my community. At times people pity you when you do not own even a cow. They could not imagine how your children survive without milk. This makes me feel bad now that I am part of those people without cattle. I am working hard to see that I buy my family a dairy cow. This will enable me to produce plenty of milk for my family."

"According to my opinion, what Give Directly does so well is that they give out unconditional transfers, different people have different needs, and we have the freedom how to spend the transfers so long as it is something that does not harm us together with community members. The transfers are given in lump sum amounts and this helps in planning purposes in terms of the developments that we would wish to engage in at a personal level. Unlike other projects where it is given in small amounts. To avoid household conflict, what needs to be done differently is enrolling all the individuals in the household. During enrollment, those individuals who did not have responsibilities by then were left out of the program yet these are the same people who steal from their old and vulnerable parents. Another thing that needs to be done differently is enrolling all the communities in a specific village for uniformity purposes and this will prevent too many complaints coming from the communities that are left out during the registration to the programs"

"I'm a teacher by profession at Kietamer Primary School. I teach the little angels in the nursery, earning $160 per month in salary. As for my husband, he works as a driver at the Treasury, earning $500 per month in salary. The funds from GiveDirectly allowed us to finally have some disposable income to help us achieve those things we had kept putting on the back burner due to other responsibilities. As such, I undertook the purchase of a cow. Both for milk and for breeding, it seemed like a good idea! Considering we have a 1 acre farm on which we grow maize, I didn't see the need to buy food, so I chose to cater for the kids' fees with the transfers from GiveDirectly. We have three kids. Our eldest recently graduated from high school and plans to attend university to study nursing. The second born is in class 8 at Sigor Primary Boarding School, for whom we pay $280 per year. The third born is in PP2 at St. Francis Academy, and we pay $50 per term for her tuition. GiveDirectly was a blessing to my partner and me. We finally had the privilege of having more cash than we normally make, allowing us to do so many things that we had previously only dreamed of one day doing."

"I am a carpenter by profession. I am planning to expand my business of carpentry so as to cater for my young children who are still in Primary school. I will be doing this by taking a loan from the Sacco which I will be paying monthly from the profits collected. In addition, I will be doing subsistence farming to help boost my stock of carpentry."

"Before the transfer, I never had a modern house, I owned a small grass-thatched house which was leaking during the rainy season. I thank Give Directly for the transfers as I managed to build a two-bedroom modern house for kshs 30,000 Initially, I never had peace of mind as it was so tiresome moving some of my valuable items during the rainy season, my young boys too never had adequate space to spend their nights and this was so stressful as they could sleep in a neighbour's house. My peace of mind is finally restored since I built a house. I am a University student, a third-year student studying Education. I used the remaining part of the transfers of kshs 23,000 to pay for my tuition fees"

"I am very grateful to GiveDirectly for giving me hope and restoring my faith in that good people still exist. The majority of my villagers have achieved the majority of the things they never dreamed they would because of what GiveDirectly has done for us. Thank you so much for the unconditional transfers that you have given us. We are really grateful for that."

"We are experiencing short and delayed rains in our region. This makes vegetables and short-seasoned crops expensive. I plan to venture into this farming in the future and tap more income for my family."

"GiveDirectly has excelled at brightening up our lives. Because of the abundance of transfers provided by GiveDirectly, my husband and I find ourselves laughing and smiling more. They allowed me to expand my business, and I only pray they will find it in their hearts to come back yet again and continue to support our projects."

"I do subsistence farming for a living. I am planning to start up a small business supplying maize to boarding schools. I usually do it although to homesteads on order. In the near future, I will be expanding and mostly the deliveries will be done by the motorcyclist as they will be in large quantities. The profits from the business will be taking care of my kids' school fees."