"My life will be different in the next six months in that I will be having money to pay for my fees. This has been my biggest worry because, in the past, I have considered dropping out of school since we did not have money to pay. With GD transfers, I know I will be having money on a monthly basis which I will use in paying my school fees arrears. I know I will never be sent home again as it was the case. I plan to pay my fees on a monthly basis as I receive my transfers."

"I spent my transfer on boosting my shoe and cloth businesses by adding more stock to the business. My desire is to have a stable business which will sustain my needs even in the future. The rest of the transfer I used on buying household items such as food for my family. The stock of food we had in the house had reduced and it was my desire to use the transfers on food than business resources for food. I am glad I got the money at the right time."

"In the next six months, I know I will never be struggling financially as it was the case before the transfers. My plan is to always save part of my monthly transfers so that I don't have to go borrowing from friends whenever I have any financial needs. That has been the case and I have been having very unnecessary debts which I plan to avoid so that I may develop financially and be independent."

"If I could not have received money from give directly I could not have managed to pay dowry to my spouse and sure she could still be at her biological home together with my children. I could not have managed to invest in sugarcane farming as I did."

"The biggest difference in my life is that I now have a stable reliable source of Income. I managed to buy a dairy cow and fortunately it has started producing milk. Of which l sell some milk in our local market and some for my family consumption. Since the milk has started getting me some income, my family has never gone to bed hungry. We are able to at least meet our daily needs."

"The biggest difference in my life is that l managed to plant sugarcane in two hectares of land that I have never done in my life. I am very sure once I started harvesting them, my life will definitely change because I am sure I will get enough money out of it and spend the money to catter for my family needs. I am now hopefull that this my starting point of doing large scale farming in sugarcane and I will not stop at this point since l would want to put up my own house from this and also do other investments such as livestock keeping."

"The biggest difference in my life is that l am now using solar to light my house which is very convenient to my family and of a great help to my children when they are studying as compared to before when they were using tin lump. Solar has also become like a source of income because I use it to charge phones for people and get money for my up keep, which was not the case before. The better part of it is that I no longer spend money to buy parrafin which was very costly."

"If I could not have received the transfer I could not have managed to invest in a lager scale farming as i did by hiring tractor to till my land using give directly's money, I could have just in used my own hand and till a very small portion. But now I am very happy I have managed to invest in a larger scale farming and sure of getting enough produce. I am very and proud because I now have my own television I do not need to go to the neighbour to watch news as I used to do before."

"My expectation in the near future is to have cleared the debt that I have from land subdivision. Once this is done, I would be able to pluck the tea leaves within the plot and even develop it by building some shops for rental. The transfers from GiveDirectly has and will continue being part of this journey."

"My expectation in the near future is to have bought a dairy cow for rearing. Apart from the source of milk that the cow will give, the sale of the extra milk will be a source of income and help us meet our daily needs. It will also help cut down the money spent on buying milk and instead invest in other projects."