"I was very thankful and grateful. Give Directly has done something which we never saw coming."

"My greatest desire for the last two years has been to build a two-roomed iron-roofed house since I currently live in a small one-roomed hut with my 3 children. My firstborn son is a teenager and culture has it that a teenage boy has to sleep in a separate house from his parents for privacy reasons, but lack of resources has forced us to share one room with him. I will therefore spend $300 of my transfer to erect another house where one of the rooms will be his. I will then use $300 to buy a milk producing cow who's earnings from selling milk will supplement my daily earnings from my casual jobs."

"Being a mother of three, the biggest hardship I face is limited resources to sustain my family's needs. I work in people's farms for pay within the neighborhood and getting such jobs is never a guarantee. My children and I have slept without food on several occasions. Skipping meals is our daily norm and this pains me alot."

"I was very happy and grateful. It's a huge amount of money And i will be forever grateful."

"Receiving this money is of great benefit to me as it will enable me to pay fees for my 6 children who are in colleges"

"I lack money for food as well as for fertilizers since I am am old woman and cannot manage to do some casual labour to earn some money"

"I spend part of the money I received from GiveDirectly to settle the debts. I bought a piece of land from my neighbor using the first transfer and I had not completed paying all the total cost. I used part of the second transfer to clear it. I am so happy because I no longer feel stressed up on how to clear the debts The remaining amount I used it to buy a dairy cow. I used to buy milk and it was so costly for me since I do not have a continuous source of income. Currently this cost had been cut off because I have enough milk for my family."

"In my opinion GiveDirectly does well by giving money to the poor in the community to build better houses and to buy dairy cows. I do not find anything that GiveDirectly did not do well."

"My ambition has to own a good vending business. I am a carpenter by profession but with my old age it's not a job I can count on for income. In 2013 before my wife left me I had opened a small hotel where she helped in cooking and the profit was $5 each day, but the business didn't do well when she decided to leave. It takes me 4 days to finish a simple table or chairs and I only get a profit of about $3 on good days. This is very little and can not help my household sustain sour basic needs such as food and clothing. That is why I prefer using give Directly transfer on opening a hotel because the profit is better."

"In my opinion, GiveDirectly does well by offering the transfer as a lump sum. This allows us to attain our big and relatively costly dreams that could not be sufficed by meager income. From my view, there is nothing that GiveDirectly is not doing well."