"The biggest difference is that I now have enough milk after I bought a dairy cow. No one would ever imagine I would one day own a cow. I was among the very poor households in our community and most of the time the community would donate food and other household items due to my condition. I am proud to have chosen to buy the cow because it does not only provide food for my family, but also a source of income and assets that can be relied on in times of need."

".The biggest difference in my daily life is the ability to pay for my children's school fees without selling my livestock. I feel good I never sold any of my cows. This could be a big blow to my family since it is my main source of income. In order to ensure my children go through school successfully, I must have a constant source of income but this was being threatened. It seemed as if I was going to lose it. I am just glad that GD came to help me out of the situation."

"I felt very excited because the promise which was made to me of cash transfer fulfilled. This was a big shock to me."

"I feel grateful because I would not have gotten away from starting my dairy project. The transfers enabled me to buy a heifer that is almost calving. It dawned to me that I would soon be having a daily income despite the fact that I don't work because of my disability. The money I will be getting from the sale of milk is enough to sustain me. I am no longer worried about my future because from this project I can achieve both short and long term goals."

"I expect to get a bumper harvest this season. This gives me hope of having enough food for the year and also have enough bags left to sell. I also expect to have planted more beans in a small piece of land that I leased from a neighbor. Proceeds from all these will help me improve myself by doing more projects and plan for a better future."

"I do not expect any change yet because I am in the process of achieving my goal of buying a piece of land using my Give DIrectly transfers. I am saving part of my monthly transfer towards buying land since this is my major dream in my life. I am grateful because I am already seeing progress since I started receiving money from Give Directly."

"Before the transfers, I used to reside at my parent's house. I had come of age to rent my own house and due to low income from casual work, I was not able to. I would feel ashamed of myself since most of my agemates have rented their houses yet I was still staying in my parent's house. This is why I chose to rent my own house so that I could finally grow in life. I felt I was stagnant in my father's house. Right now, I pay my own rent and live in my own house just like my friends. It makes me happy and feels so proud of the step I have made in life."

"I spent my transfer on paying house rent. By the time I received the transfer, I had not paid rent because the little money I had saved, I used to take my children to school by buying school requirements such as books, paying school fees and buying school uniform. The rest of the transfers I have used on boosting my shoe business by adding more stock to the business. The business was going down because I had used what I had in the business for my personal needs."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is the newly built house that I never thought I would build anytime soon. We had the desire of building a new and better house for our family but the little income that we received from GiveDirectly was hardly enough to enable us build this house."

"In the next six months I expect my life to change in that we shall be more financially independent as a family as well as having better living standards of our family. The poultry keeping project shall have hopefully stabilized and earning us quite high income that would enable us meet the cost of basic household needs without much struggle. We shall also be in a position to make more profits and save up on it to invest in other meaningful family businesses."