"My life has improved so much because i have build enough houses in my homestead. My heart is filled with joy to see that my family have enough rooms to use. I even have an extra house that I can use to house guest whenever they have to spent a night at my place.Home improvement would not have been possible without GiveDirectly because I get very little from my peasant farming practice."

"My life has really improved so much when I got two dairy cows that give me milk. I spent the money from selling milk on buying food for the household and on meeting personal needs. Additionally , I also get to feed my family using some of the milk I get. It is really a good way of life having dairy cows to rear. At the moment, there is plenty of grass due to the ongoing rains. I am so happy that I made this choice."

"The biggest difference in my life is the business that I am about to start in a shop that I have built on my farm. I would not have been able to build this without GiveDirectly. I am just struggling to complete it and start a better live back in my village. My business here in the city has become unprofitable. I need to settle beck on my village with an income activity. This has only been made possible by these transfers. I am hopeful that I will son complete the shop construction and start the business."

"The house I was living was too old and too small. My children had been asking me why I had not put up a proper house especially whenever it rained. My income from a small business and farming was not enough for our daily provisions as well as doing home improvement. When I received the money from GiveDirectly , I decided to end my misery by building a nice house. My children are now comfortable living in a house that does not leak even during this heavy rain season."

"In the next six months, I will have established a tea nursery . I intend to plant them on my farm. This has been informed by the construction of a factory in a nearby village. The factory has now been completed and is already processing tea. I want to be part of the people supplying the crop in order to also benefit. In the next six months, I will be having tea seedlings already in the next six months."

"The biggest difference in my life is that I boosted my farming with the transfers which I received from Give Directly. I now have two more cows added to my stock and this advancement has made me proud as a farmer and no longer depend on others as I can sell milk and have income which enables me to buy other family necessities."

"My children's education has always been my priority. Being a parent without a stable source of income, it had always been a problem for me to raise money to use in paying school fees and my son had been so devastated and demoralized. However, my life is currently different because I cleared his school fees and he was allowed back to school. Due to this, he is always in a jovial mood since he knows that he will never be sent back home again."

"At my age, I can't do much strenuous work and with the milk which I get from the cow which I bought with my transfers, I get to sell it and make some small income. Again, my son who operates the motorbike which I bought for him get to buy some food for us as he is now financially stable unlike before when he would only depend on us."

"Personally, I have achieved so many things in life which I wouldn't achieve in my entire life were it not for Give Directly. Presently I got two good cows which I bought as a result of the transfers. Now I know that once the cows start lactating I will generate income through the sale of milk. Again, I now wear good clothes which I couldn't afford before. Whenever I wore them I look smart in it and thank Give Directly for that. Lastly, I paid school fees for my child for the entire year and that gave me a peace of mind to focus on other things that which benefit my family."

"Having a daily income from sale of milk is going to be my most valuable achievement this years. After the corona virus outbreak, the business I used to run on selling second hand clothes in local markets here has been banned. This has made me go back to a point where I earn nothing at all. However milk production from the cow that I bought will cushion me. I am so grateful that I will still be making some money while staying at home for the next several months."