"The moment I received the transfer I was very happy. My husband checked my phone just to be sure and confirmed that indeed the cash transfer was with us. We sat down and planned on how to spend the money wisely."

"Having livestock of my won has become possible only because of the transfers from GiveDirectly. For a long time, I wanted to start keeping a cow but I could not personally afford a heifer. The business of livestock trading was not raising enough to meet our household needs including school fees and food. I needed to have an income from a dairy cow that will enable me to provide for the family while my husband's efforts in business to handle school fees. I am now glad to be a contributor to my household's income."

"My life is currently different because bought a water tank. I used to fetch water from a water pond about 3 kilometers away from home. The water was not safe for drinking and could easily affect the health of my children. I am sure the rainwater I collect in the tank is much safer in addition to the trouble it saved me from the hectic process of fetching from the community pond."

"With the current plans we have in our household, we are really hopeful that in the next six months we will have purchase the cow and also our plantation will be ready for harvest. We are hoping that the weather will be favourable enough to enable our far produce to perform."

"My life will be different in the next six months in that I will no longer be staying in a rental house. I want to use my next series of transfers on savings with a plan of buying building materials such as iron sheets, timber and nails for putting up a house. Currently, I am staying in a rental house and I feel life is much expensive especially on paying rent every month. I feel it is time I have my own house and use the money for paying rent on other family needs."

"My life is currently different than how it would have been had I not received the transfer because I have been able to build a house for my son. Due to this, he now sleeps at home unlike before and I no longer worry about his security at night. Also, I am now a proud owner of a dairy cow and some chicken. I will be using the income from these projects to cater for our daily needs. This will be my major source of income since I cannot engage myself in tedious work as I am disabled and I cannot even do some tasks like farming."

"I have been buying milk daily and it is always costly. My family is sometimes forced to take tea without milk and it cannot sustain one for an all-day without having any meal. With the coming of GiveDirectly, I am now a proud owner of a dairy cow. Due to this, I have been able to save the money I would otherwise use in buying milk. This is also an asset that I can lean by selling milk and using the income from milk sales to cater to our daily needs."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is the ability to purchase a cow. This to us became a great solution to any problems we had. We are no longer buying milk but instead we are selling which outcome has been sorting most of the household bills."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is the school fees payment. It had been a struggle ensuring that we complete the payment of school fees for all our children, we would always do the casual works in order to make a saving out of it. On receiving this money we felt a relief and to date we are still happy that we are part of this project."

"It was early in the morning when I received a message alert on my phone. Upon checking its contents, my heart was filled with happiness and I gave thanks to God for leading GiveDirectly to our village and specifically to my household. I knew that I would be able to achieve a lot of things using this money."