"The moment I got the money, I became so happy. I thanked God and prayed for all those who donated their monies for the poor."

"I felt good when I received UGX 1,700,000 on my phone at once. It was the first thing of it's kind to happen to me ever since I was born."

"The moment I received the money I felt so excited because the money was much. I appriciate the work of GiveDirectly because they have helped us a lot."

"I felt so happy when I received the transfer, that is the time I realised that God is really good."

"Ever since I got the money, my life has got a big difference, I am now settled at home to take care of my livestock and other assets that I bought with the GiveDirectly transfer. I feel respected because of what I have. Previously, I could not settle at home because I was always on move trying to look for money for survival and it was not easy."

"My life will have improved a lot in the next six months. I will be a livestock owner. I believe that my sheep will have multiplied already. This will then be a source of income. I really desire to achieve this before the transfers end in the next few months. The reason why I want to keep sheep is that I can utilize the small space I have on my land to raise them and earn from the venture."

"In the next six months, I will be having vibrant farming activities. I will be using more and more of the transfers to buy farm inputs and generate more income. In the of six months, I will have comfortably started off my son who is joining a secondary school in January. I hope to be living a better life where I can easily meet my children's daily needs."

"I expect to have improved my life because I will be getting income from farming activities that I am using the transfers to establish. By this time my child will be in school and will be studying well because my investments in farming and chickens keeping will be helping me to meet the educational needs."

"My new goals are; to restock my business and to open a shop. Having the two businesses will guarantee me more income which will help me to carter to my needs easily. I plan to employ a trusted friend to run the shop as I continue hawking because I am used to this one."

"I spent a larger potion of my most recent transfer to boost my shoes vending business the I had started with my first transfer my aim is to expand this business since it sustains me more compared to the casual job such as riding a carts which were unreliable and could not guarantee me a daily income hence I am determined to have this business up and running. I also bought food and household expenditures with the remaining amount ."