"I am proud to own some livestock which include three heifers and two goats. These are to me living assets that I am keeping. I believe that through them, the future of my children's education is sorted. They are a saving that will enable me meet my future financial goals since the livestock will reproduce and increase in number. I will be able to sell the offsprings to raise more cash. Owning the livestock makes the biggest difference in my daily life."

"It was early in the morning when I decided to check my phones inbox and as I read through the messages, I came across the one message I have been anxiously waiting for, a message from GiveDirectly informing me that I had received my first transfer. I felt happy for this financial support and thanked them."

"In the next six months, I am expecting to have completed the payment of the pending bill and will be ready to Start a small business in the nearby shopping center which will be checking and replenishing the household goods. "

"The biggest difference is that I now have livestock that I would not have owned if it were not to GD's transfers. I count this as a milestone in my life that has taken the support of GD. Besides that, I have been able to keep my children in school with zero fee balances. I would not have managed because my casual job does not get me enough money for all that I was able to do with GD's unconditional transfers. My life has been elevated and we are a happy family."

"I had been a business man for long but I had never received such an amount of money before. I am happy for the support that GiveDirectly has given me. My wife and I are growing and less energetic for active daily chores. The biggest difference in my daily is the efforts that GiveDirectly has given me to buy a water tank at my age. I currently enjoy clean water my doorstep and we are relaxed no hardwork for aging wife to go fetch water. I feel so proud and GiveDirectly for the financial support."

"I love investing my children as I know they will one day give back to us in better away. I value my children education thus I do any kind of casual jobs to see them in school. Raising their school fees has not been easy with the scarce resources in our family. The biggest difference in my daily life ever since I received transfer from GiveDirectly is seeing my children study without interruption in school after paying their school fees with part of it. I feel so happy and thankful when I see them in school knowing that they have good grades to take to next level of education and later on have good jobs."

"As an household head with all the family needs rely on, meeting them all is a challenge. I ventured into timber business as a source of income to help me support my family. I love it and I had always looked on possible ways of improving it to earn better. This a dream that I never realised due to overwhelming daily household needs. When I received my transfer, I took some amount to buy a power saw. This has brought the biggest difference in my daily life now that I enjoy all profits alone. I feel so happy I earn more than I did thus meeting my family needs is easier. Thank you GiveDirectly."

"The biggest hardship I have faced is having to spend every little income we get in buying food.We have been experiencing prolonged periods of drought in this area and have not had a harvest in a long time.We are therefore forced to buy from maize traders even though we have a small piece of land which would otherwise sustain us."

"My spouse and I struggled to raise our seven children despite the challenges we often faced like lack of money to pay their fees.With this struggle ,only four of them completed secondary school.We used up all our resources especially livestock in educating them and while this was already hard enough,I fell sick .This meant that whatever little resource that was left had to be sold so I could get treatment.Eventually everything was depleted leaving us in total poverty."

"In the next six months I expect to have paid a good part of the hospital debt. We are working hard with my wife on the casual labor trying to make ends meet and also looking forward to other new options since we are much eager to see the bill cleared."