"I have been selling ice cream for close to three years now, but having only one cooler has always made it hard for me to make a good amount during the hot seasons when the business booms which is a limitation for the business. My new plan is to save as much as I can during this cold season to enable me to buy an extra cooler. This is my way of preparing for the hot season ahead when I hope that I will fully benefit from the business as I will be able to make more ice cream."

"At the moment, I am comfortably able to take care of my needs, pay my bills on time and still make some little savings. This is because the money I receive monthly supplements my little income to make all these possible. Other than the monthly transfers, I also get some little extra income from the clothes business that I recently started which has made my life a lot better compared to what it was before."

"In the next six months, I will have gotten married that means I will no longer make decisions as a bachelor anymore. Most of the plans that I have will have to go through a ''sieving machine'' before it is materialized. The thought of getting married has left me with mixed feelings. Kind of scared but excited at the same time. I hoping for the best. Besides that, my tea business will have grown as well and the revenue gap will have increased. This translates to financial freedom and generally a happy family."

"Apart from the shoe business, I am currently running, I have plans of starting a new business on motorcycle taxi operation which will also assist me in delivering the shoes to my online customers. I know that I may not be able to save enough money to buy the motorcycle due to low income, so I will buy it on credit then use most of my daily earnings to clear the loan. I have the confidence to do this because the monthly transfers will be helping in taking care of most of my personal and household needs which will give me an easy time paying for the motorcycle."

"I still remember that day very well, it was around 6 am when my son broke the news that GiveDirectly had debited my first transfer into my account. At first, I thought he was kidding. We joke a lot with him and I couldn't just believe him at that moment. When he insisted, I decided to take the phone and confirmed that the message was indeed true. I was so excited. I just wish you could see how elated I was. May they continue changing other people's because whatever they are doing revives hope to desperate families like ours."

"Having more cows will guarantee us to buy a piece of land very soon. With the sale of milk and the young ones, we can easily raise enough money to buy a good size of land. We are currently living on an inherited piece of land. We haven't been able to do much development in this land due to constant conflict with in-laws. We are thinking of buying land in a place further from here where we can rarely cross paths with our in-laws"

"In the next six months, I believe that my child will have received treatment and will be well like other normal children. This will make me happy as a parent because she will never feel isolated from her peers. I normally get hurt when I see other children avoiding her. They usually don't want to play with her and it breaks me to the core. It had started affecting her self esteem which was not a good thing at all. For her to regain her posture is the greatest difference in my life"

"If I could not have received the transfer I could not have managed to pay for my children school fee and they could even drop out of school. But I am now happy because they in school. "

"If I could not have received the money from give directly I could not have managed to plant rice in one hectare 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. "

"If I would not receive money from Give directly I could not have managed to buy motorcycle and I could still be operating somebody else motorcycle which was not profitable. But now I am happy I have my own motorcycle that I operate the way I want and getting enough money to take care of my family."