"I started a tailoring business with the first transfer, the business has been prospering so far. The second transfer has helped me stock more products. I get $10 a day which helps me buy food and pay for my children's school fees."

"I am the breadwinner of the family. My husband is old and retired. I take care of the seven children alone. To get school fees and food I burn and sell charcoal for a living where I make $20 a week. As the breadwinner, I struggle a lot paying for school fees and at times, I am forced to take one meal a day to save some coin. Receiving this money has helped me pay debt and improve my house with new iron sheet."

"GiveDirectly staff are polite and ensure questions are asked. I also like receiving calls from them because they ensure that the money intended for us has been received with no problem."

"I am a stay-at-home mother, my husband has a piece of land that I farm for domestic purposes. I have eight children that are in school. School fees have been a struggle for the longest. My husband works in a butchery and has always managed to get the funds needed. Recently my husband was diagnosed with a kidney problem and was out of his job. Unfortunately, all my children are now out of school because I cannot manage to pay their fees. But I am thankful the money from GiveDirectly has helped me pay for the hospital bills, he is now at home recuperating."

"Before the transfer, my children would get sent away due to school fees arrears, which had accumulated to $200. I have a grocery shop and I get $5 a day that helps me buy food and water for my family. My husband does casual jobs and in a week he gets $30 which is mostly used to pay school fees and his transport fare. Previously, I lived in one room house that was not comfortable for the six of us. My children would put the mattress on the ground and sleep which made them have a cold most of the time. Receiving this transfer has enabled me to build a two-roomed house and bought two beds for $80 and paid school fees arrears at $200."

"Before the transfer, I was living in a house made of grass, rodents and snakes were always finding their way to the house. I sell porridge in the village. I get $1.5 as the profit in a day which helps me buy food for my family. My husband is a guard at a school nearby getting a wage of $5 a day which helps pay school fees for my two children. Receiving this money has enabled me to build a three-roomed house for which I spent $400, paid school fees for $10, and bought two goats for $60 that I would sell whenever I need money."

"I used $400 of the second transfer to complete the construction of a house I had built using the first transfer. I then used the remaining amount of $130 to purchase food, clothes and other basic household needs for my family. Before receiving this transfer, my family and I were living in a mud walled house. I had always desired to build a better house for my family but with the little income that I made from small scale farming and the huge demand to pay school fees could not allow me accomplish this. I am so happy that the house that we built is almost complete and we will be living in a timber walled hence forth."

"For a while now, I have had the plans to Invest in my farm especially by ensuring that I buy a couple of farm animals. I decided that I will be saving a portion of the money that I keep receiving so that I could eventually have enough to buy a couple of goats and poultry since purchasing cows is costly.Apart from that, I also intend to finish up with renovating my house because after I started receiving the transfers I began fixing it especially the roof since the iron sheets were old and worn out."

"It is a great feeling to know that I was able to build two new houses and purchase a lactating cow that has since provided enough milk for my family. I currently have a nineth-grade son whose school fees are proving difficult to pay. Since I was previously reliant on farming, I hope to increase the acreage under cultivation and ensure an increase in production that can be sold to pay my children's school fees."

"I purchased a plot in a nearby shopping center a year ago, which I intend to build and use to run my current maize-selling business. I was paying a lot in rent, and the idea of owning a shop will relieve me of that burden and save me a lot of money that would have gone to rent. I am saving money from my business and farming activities, which I believe will be useful in purchasing construction materials and paying labor charges in the coming months."