"For many years, I have desired to own a decent shelter for myself. This is because I have been living in a small, grass-thatched house that was leaking and required frequent and costly maintenance. I spent the recent transfer to purchase the required building materials such as iron sheets, building poles and timber. At the moment, I am happy to reside in a nice house unlike before. In addition, I am planning to spend $80 to complete the dowry payment for my wife who had returned to her maternal home due to the pending dowry. I can not wait to see us reuniting again. Furthermore, I used $200 to restart goat rearing a reliable source of income by buying 4 goats. Three years ago, I was forced to stop livestock keeping after all my animals died due to chronic illness. Lastly, I used the remaining amount to purchase sufficient food for myself."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is the peace of mind that I had when I received the first transfer to the hospital with my wife. Even though we could not talk about it much, I was relieved that I had found a way to meet the bill with ease. Even though the death robbed me of my spouse, I was always hopeful and thankful that I had the support I needed and more to come in the future that I hope to use to realize my family's dream."

"In my opinion, GiveDirectly did well in giving cash as a form of aid instead of properties or material things. Through the cash transfer, we had the right to choose how we can utilize it to better our living standards. I feel that the processes went well and there is nothing they could change."

"I am involved in a small business within my compound, I own a shop where I sell household goods to make a living out of it. My business at the moment has hit headwinds, it is doing badly because the cost of living has gone up, and people do not have enough disposable income. Subsequently, this has affected my business too since I depend on them to buy from me. I used to make sales of up to $15 a day but of late I operate on a turnover of $5 per day. This has affected us from meeting our demands, and as a result, we struggle to raise school fees for our child who is in Emmaland primary school. I am afraid that if the situation persists we may not be able to cater to her school fees and other family needs."

"Life is hard and has so many struggles. We are faced with a myriad of unsurmountable challenges. Day after day we live from hand to mouth. I am a casual laborer who tends on other people's farms for a meager wage while my husband does motorcycle business for someone who pays him at an agreed price of $4.50 per day, then any other amount above that is his take-home. It is a very ambitious target and sometimes he cannot meet and that means he has to come home empty-handed after laboring out there. It is such a bad state of things. Food insecurity is what has pushed us to untold suffering. We have a small piece of land that can hardly sustain any meaningful agricultural produce and as such we have to purchase maize at the nearby Kapkwen market. The cost of the commodity has gone up as a result of the increased cost of living. A 2 kg packet of maize goes at $1.70 which is high for the people of little means like us. Sometimes we go to bed hungry when we are not able to afford it, at such circumstances my children bear the brunt of it all and it worries us a lot."

"Givedirectly is a good organization. Givedirectly send oir money in time and make us to have good shelter and live a decent life."

"It wss difficulty to pay my kids schools, but with my transfer things have improve."

"I bought zinc and paid someonevto cut stick for me."

"I paid my kids school fees and bought few medicine to treat myself."

"I was indeed happy when I received the alert from Lonestar. I felt that my problem was over because I needed money to take my sick husband to the hospital for treatment.upon receipt of the money, I immediately paid the bill for my husband"