"My life will be different in the next six months in that I will be having a new house. I would not be staying in the house with a leaking roof anymore. I believe in the next six months, I would have bought all the required building materials for putting up a new house. Thanks to GD for the transfers."

"It was around 6 am after waking up when I realized that I had an unread message. After reading its content, I became so happy and I immediately informed my spouse about the good news. I knew that I would be able to build a spacious house for my family."

"With all the plans in place, we have a good feeling that things are transforming in our lives as a household. The biggest difference in our daily life at the moment is the great feeling of hope over the projects we are starting. Among them, poultry project is what has brought a lot of hopes since it is one of the easiest and productive project we have seen it starting at the moment."

"Currently, we have really not had much difference in our daily life but the happiness and the atmosphere within our household since we received the transfers have been amazing. We are now optimistic that in the next few weeks, changes will have been many, among them is the cow which we'll be buying and also restocking of the shop."

"I have been working part-time as a water vendor and always idle most of the time that I am not working because we work in shifts to allow more youth an opportunity to get some little money, according to my employer. With a lot of time in my hands, I feel that I should engage in something else to generate extra income and it needs to be something I am passionate about such as video gaming. I have thought of opening a video gaming station around my area of residence because most residents here who are mostly idle like passing time in such kinds of places, but the only challenge is raising the amount required to buy the necessary equipment. I have however started saving some little money each month and I hope that I will manage to buy some of them before the end of this project."

"Hunger. My husband and I do not have formal employment except for casual jobs like weeding people's corn in the village. At most times it becomes difficult to get food enough to feed my five children. The maximum we can come home with everyday is an average of $2. This amount can barely feed our family of 7 for that day making us live from hand to mouth. This is replicated everyday for the rest of the year. This is the biggest hardship I have faced in my life. "

"One month down the line I would have built a kitchen worth $160 and spend another $100 towards completion of my main house. I am also planning to revive a shop business that collapsed thanks to over dependency. This is going to cost $200 while an investment in a dairy cow will cost me another $300. These are income generating activities that will supplement my wife's teaching salary to sustain our household needs. This is also going to secure a good academic foundation for our children."

"When my employer's wife passed on due to kidney failure, I assumed her responsibility to take care of their children. My employer says that I should buy a piece of land worth $400 and spend another $200 to build a house. Receiving this money is the beginning of freedom, independence thanks to land ownership rights. "

"Iam very happy upon being enrolled into Give Directly program. My desire has been to buy our own motorcycle which would carry people for a fee. My husband currently is riding someones motorcycle and we get little money to cater for our basic needs."

"Since the year 2009, we have been unable to harvest enough maize for both consumption and commercial purpose due to an infestation by unknown disease. Initially, we used to harvest around 10 sacks of maize in our 1.5 acre of land which was sufficient to sustain us both for domestic use and to meet School expenses. The 10 sacks of maize which we used to harvest was reduced to only 2 sacks which is hardly enough for consumption leave alone meeting the School expenses. Therefore, the biggest hardship has been lack of enough School fees to cater for our two school going children which costs us around 1,000 USD a year."