"My life is different from how it was because I have been able to pay school fees for my children for this year and also bought for them all the school requirements that were needed. Due this, I now have enough time to look for next years school fees. I am also glad since they will not miss their classes this year as a result of being sent back home to collect school fees. Also, I have been able to start building a decent house for my family. Currently, we are living in a house that is almost collapsing and leaks during rainy seasons."

"The biggest difference in my life is that I have been able to pay school fees for my children. One of them had been forced to discontinue his studies for one year due to a lack of school fees. He had always lived a stressful life and always reminding me that I had failed them in life. Due to this, I always felt that I was a terrible mother who could not afford to give her children the education they require. Seeing my children continue with their studies and being happy all the time has given me peace. I believe that I would not have been able to pay their school fees at my own cost and I thank GiveDirectly for enabling me to achieve this."

"My life is now different because I now own goats in my homestead. I didn't have any livestock in my compound and I never had the plans of owning them anytime soon. These assets which I know own will help me in meeting my future financial goals with ease without much straining. Had it not been GiveDirectly, then I would not be owning them for now."

"My life is now different because I managed to purchase some heifers from financial help. This is what I have been praying to own for so kong because I always depend on farming activities. I feel there is a big relief now because I will no longer be hiring those of my neighbor like I used to do. This will make me save the money and sort some other expenses. I will also be hiring them to my neighbors and generate an income that will boost my living standard. If it were not for GiveDirectly, I wold not have achieved all these."

"To me owning a dairy cow in my homestead gives me the biggest difference in my daily life. This is because it's the only asset that I can lean on in case of financial needs. Within a short period of time, it will reproduce, I will have offsprings which I can sell them just in case of any emergency. I will also enjoy the milk for both household consumption and commercial purposes to earn an income to support other family needs. It it was not for GD coming to my life, I would not have achieved all these."

"I was previously sheltering in a small grass-thatched hut that would leak badly during the rainy season. However, my life has greatly changed because after receiving the money, I managed to build a decent and spacious iron-roofed house to live in with my family. I would still be living in my hut had it not been the coming of GiveDirectly since I lacked the financial resources to buy any of the building materials."

"In the next six months, I expect to have completed all the construction, both my kitchen and also my mother's kitchen. On y side, it is clear that I am soon completing it and the only remaining task which won't take us more than three months will be my other's kitchen."

"I have always thought of investing in livestock which to us are assets of value. I couldn't have purchased any considering that I do not have a source of income. However, through the coming of GiveDirectly, I am now boasting of owning two heifers, a pair of oxen and I have recently begun a poultry project. These are assets that I can readily rely on whenever I need to raise some money."

"My life is so different for after now after purchasing the cows and goats which I never owned before. IIn the next few months I am assured that this livestock will reproduce and multiply aba high rate. I will be able to sell the milk from the cow and sell the offsprings of the goats and educate my children who are still young. I will no longer be struggling like I used to do previously."

"Having my own goats that I am currently rearing in my compound has brought the biggest difference in my life. I did not have any hopes of owning them any time soon because they were expensive and he little money used to earn on the casual jobs were only for my family's basic needs My plan is when they multiply, I will be selling the matured offsprings and buy a dairy cow. This will make me wealthier because I will start to be getting milk."