"Before GiveDirectly sent the transfer,I had stress since I didn't have money to pay school fees for my children. I have not been able to get menial jobs in the month of January and my husband also had no job hence entirely everyone was relying on me. This had been a burden to me bearing in mind my income is very minimal to provide for my family.My life has been different after I received my transfers since I have regained happiness and peace out of paying school fees for my children on time. Although, their are arrears left , it not that overwhelming as before. On the other hand, I bought goats that serves as my financial security in future."

"A few months I got employed in a nearby primary school where I am teaching class one pupils. The income has been very little which only serves on meeting my family's daily needs only. Therefore GiveDirectly has changed my life since I am self employed after stocking the motorcycle spare part business and it more stable. The profits that I get from the business, I am saving with the intention of expanding it to be a wholesale business. I also appreciate the fact that I have created employment as well the person who is looking after the business."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is sickness. I am a single parent who also has to provide for the family just like others do. In sickness or health, it is only me that my children look up to. I am not in position to work as much as I would wish but life has to move on. It is just a struggle."

"Receiving this money means I will be able to build an iron roofed house that my family can sleep comfortably. I also hope to buy a cow that can provide milk for my family hence better health."

"When I received the money from GiveDirectly and settled the issue of school fees that had become a huge bother for me I felt relieved. I could still be struggling to pay for their previous terms school fees because I could not keep up with it. I was at one point considering to sell my farm in order to raise the amount needed. But after GiveDirectly came, I am now able to pay and keep them settled in school without stressing me up like before. I am a better parent now that they are well catered for."

"My life is currently different in that I have stopped working on people's farms like I used to do before. Before receiving this money, I could spend a whole day doing menial jobs in people's farms that earned me hardly enough to meet the daily needs of my family. The money that I got from these menial jobs was too little to buy food for the family and pay school fees at the same time. I have since concentrated on taking care of my livestock which has reduced the stress levels and strain that came with doing menial jobs. This has led to an improvement in my health status which had deteriorated a lot. I have even been able to dress and look better than I was before. Were it not for GiveDirectly, I would not have gotten the livestock that has so far changed my life to a great extent."

"My life is currently different because of home improvements that I achieved by making a concrete floor. My home is really decent and clean. It is easy to clean because I only mob in the evening and in the morning without having to go through the ordeal of smearing. My life has become a lot better."

"Receiving this money means ploughing of gardens will be made simpler because I intend to buy oxen that will be to used to increase quantity of food crops grown during rainy season."

"Recieving this money means I can pay school fees for my children, buy livestock and seeds for planting. Currently, my family suffers from hunger because I can't afford the agricultural inputs."

"In my life, I had never been able to own livestock that is much-needed for a young family where there is a large demand for milk for my young children. My children are going to grow well and have healthy lives because I am able to provide milk and other foodstuffs that I can buy using the money from selling the farm products. This changed my life completely because I had been struggling to buy and keep a dairy cow without any such success for a really long time. I am better off after receiving the transfers than if I haad never received it."