"I hope to do good farming and get good harvest"

"I have spent it on buying livestock and business"

"I spent most of it on buying livestock"

"I found great joy in how the unconditional cash assistance facilitated the achievement of my goals effortlessly. The enlightening sensitization meetings, particularly on MPesa security, were instrumental in broadening my understanding. The emphasis on using the money responsibly, in accordance with the laws of the land, was commendable. Furthermore, the organizers were highly respectable individuals. I encountered no issues that required correction during my interactions with them."

"Over the last 10 years since my husband passed away, I have been struggling to make ends meet in my household. The struggle has never been easy because I lack a reliable job that can support us at home. My hope has been in farming but again, this isn't reliable due to the unpredictable seasons. My children's education has been of high concern and the most recent one to be affected is my elder son who had to drop out of school due to lack of fees. The others are still in school but their performances are very low since they usually spend the better part of the term at home. As a mother, this has pained me most and I am always stressed. What a life to worry about!"

"Shamba, ukulima, usave pesa ya ukulima Inhave saved from my own work kibarua"

"food and building a house."

"When I received my most recent transfer of $450, I used $300 to purchase goats that I now keep in my farm. This was a top up from the other three that I had bought using the first transfer. It is an investment that I have always wanted to achieve because I was taking care of someone else's goats for a pay. I had always wanted to have my ownbut I had no capacity to raise enough funds to be able to do this. Receiving this money provided me with an opportunity to invest in this manner and I am so glad of my achievements so far. Initially, I used to own cows but they were not favoured by the hot weather that we experience in here and they ended up dying. This prompted me to have a second thought on the type of investment that we have or we could make. By December this year, I project that I will be having more goats and that I can finally take care of my own goats while I leave the ones that I have been taking care of to be taken care of by their owner."

"On receiving the 1st transfer, I allocated $300 of it to construct a comfortable and decent 2 roomed house to shelter me from the rain and cold during the rainy season. The existing house I had was small, leaking and on the verge of collapsing. As I am old and unemployed, I rely on my son to send me upkeep money which I utilize it to support myself and another son who I provide for and is mentally handicapped.Given his own financial responsibilities, I refrained from pressuring him to build me a house. Witnessing the completion of my new home fills me with profound satisfaction and I am immensely grateful to GiveDirectly for bestowing such a remarkable blessing upon me. Subsequently, I used $100 of the remaining transfer to buy 2 female goats, with hopes that they will reproduce and contribute to the family's livelihood through the sale of their offsprings. Lastly I used the remaining portion of the transfer to buy food because our farm yielded very little harvest, barely sufficient for sustenance."

"Repairing the condition of my house is my primary focus at the moment. It looks worn-out, with its walls crumbled away, leaving only the support poles standing with gaps in between. The roof has rusted and decayed over time, exposing the inside of the house to the elements such as rainwater. My husband and I each save $20 from the transfers to reinstate the state of the house using new poles and iron sheets. The transfers are our only hope of achieving this desire because, being old, we are unable to work to raise the necessary funds for the exercise."