"Getting enough food to feed for my family of two children has been a challenge I have always overcome through a collaborative effort since I began receiving transfers from GiveDirectly. I spent KES 4000 on a sack of dry maize grains, which will feed my family for more than a month. My two children also needed new clothes, so I had to spend KES 3000 to keep the promise I made to them at the start of the project. They were delighted to receive a new pair each and thanked GiveDirectly for the generous support. I also finished paying for a piece of land with KES 30000 which I had bought with my first transfer but I wasn't able to clear the whole amount. Since I ran a small business of selling vegetables and other household stuff, I added some more stock to it of KES 10000."

"I separated with my wife though I'm staying with my one child at home. I am also a farmer, I grow various kinds of vegetables and bananas as well for sale. I wanted to be able to take my produce to the market and also supply to other markets in various villages. To enable this, I bought a motor bike worth KES 40000. My house was also in a bad state and so I renovated it which costed me KES 10000 and also bought us beddings for KES 3000. I am happy that we have a nice shelter with my child. I am grateful that everything went as planned, and confident that all the projects I began will continue to improve our living conditions."

"Our dependency on both livestock and subsistence farming has also been a source of income as well has always pushed us to heavily invest in since it's the only art that we have mastered the steps and seasons to labor with. The second transfer I received was not an exception when I spent KES 40000 on bringing in a dairy cow that has proven its worth in the past three months of plentiful production of milk both for the household use and also surplus to sale with the products from the preexisting cows. I am glad that I have so far registered an increased daily income since I am a widow. I used the remaining amount on obtaining new pairs of school uniforms for my four kids and beddings to replace the tattered ones we had been using for the past couple of years. I am glad that we are enjoying warm bedding in this cold season that I am certain has kept my children safe from the cold. I also bought foodstuffs for the family."

"I am glad that I was able to accomplish most of the plans that I had before receiving the transfer. I now intend to expand my malimali shop and possibly make it a wholesale shop. With this I will be able to support my family alongside my husband's income."

"What you have done best is to give us the two transfers to improve our lives. Indeed, this has changed our lives to the fullest being that before we had nothing. Due to these transfers, I managed to finish building my house by fixing the three doors and roof, I also bought two goats and treated my mother up to the moment she died. I do not have any complaints but I do thank GiveDirectly and request additional transfers if possible."

"GiveDirectly is doing well by providing assistance to the less fortunate people within our town that's impacting lot of people now. I want the money that is given at the second and other levels should be higher than what is given at first transfer."

"Like I mentioned earlier on, my main source of income and sustainability is local beer selling at a small scale of course. I sell what we call "kachasu" to the locals here. Unfortunately, I have been forced to close my business due to the high cost of the needed materials for production, specifically sugar. It has been 3 months now since my closure. I was unable to afford a packet of sugar at $1.8. Due to this pause in my business I am currently unable to afford food, since I rely on buying, thus $3 a bucket. Additionally, as you can see my kitchen is grass thatched and I also have to buy that grass. Now, the rainy season is here and the kitchen roof needs repairing but I have no idea how I am to achieve that since I have no money. This worries me day in day out for I fear my kitchen might collapse with the rains."

"At present we only have two hurdles that distress us as a household. The first one being poor housing, thus, leaking roof in particular. Whenever it rains our roof leaks and we are stranded because we have nowhere else to seek shelter when this happens. This has been our challenge for years and as if this not enough, to exacerbate the situation we are currently facing a hunger crisis in this family. With the erratic rains, that we got in these parts last farming season, we only managed to harvest 3 bags of maize for food from our 1 acre farm land where we normally get 20 bags from on a good year. These 3 bags of maize sustained the 7 of us from April to June and since then we've had to depend on pieceworks for our daily sustainance."