"I was around 5 am after waking up when I realized that GiveDirectly had made me rich that morning. I was immediately filled with happiness and I whispered a prayer to thank God for leading to GD to our village. I knew that I would be able to achieve a lot of things using this money."

"The biggest challenge I face today is being broke every now and again which forces me to take soft loans from people within the village, especially close family members. With the flow of cash from my tree selling project, I think I will become financially independent and free from debts like it has always been in the past."

"Life will change once I start getting a steady flow of income because for one I will not have to rely on my husband for financial assistance every now and then like I have been doing in the past. The good thing about this job is that I will be able to offer financial support to my husband which of course will be a positive gain for the family."

"I know that my life will change because I will have constructed a new house for my family so we will no longer have to squeeze in this small structure which can barely accommodate us. My kids will also have a spacious room of their own. Currently, my kids are forced to sleep in my mothers' house reason being that the house we have cannot accommodate us."

"In the next six months, I believe I would have bought a dairy cow and this would be the greatest achievement of my own. I believe that when I got more cows, I will have more milk for sale and this would earn us more income for supporting our children in school."

"I depend on casual labour to make a living.I get 2 USD in a day .This is barely enough to provide the basic needs for my 8 children.With the 2 USD I am required to buy food and save a little for school fees.My husband does casual jobs too and sometimes both of us are lucky to get work to do. Casual labour is very tiresome and you are never assured of getting the job.I have 11 children in total and raising them up has been my biggest hardship."

"In the next six months, I would save a part of my next transfer after spending on food so that I would spend on buying a dairy goat. Goat milk is very nutritious and due to my old age, I believe when I got to drunk goat milk it will still give me more energy to live longer."

"In the next six months, I expect my life to have changed in that I will have built a house for my children and my poultry farming will have fully picked up. I see myself earning more income which in turn eases my family access to basic needs and other financial needs. I expect the new house will give my children more comfortable spacious rooms to study and live in."

"Despite my husband diagnosed with kidney problems and has not fully recovered, he is still forced to do charcoal burning activities in order to sustain our family's basic needs like food. This job is tiresome and requires a lot of energy but due financial instability he has to do it in order to put food on the table. I have wished to restart livestock rearing but this has not been accomplished. Therefore, the lack of adequate finance to fulfill this wish has been the biggest hardship in my life."

"Being a housewife I depend on my husband who is selling charcoal as the only source of income. This job has been sustaining us since 2014 but recently the government illegalized it due to its negative impact on the environment. This has forced my husband to have constant clashes with the police when in his duty. I have wished to start livestock rearing as an alternative source of income but this has never come through due to inadequate finances. Receiving this money means the accomplishment of my desire. I am planning to spend my transfer in purchasing 10 indigenous goats for $ 30 each, which will act as my longterm investment for the family. The remaining amount will assist me to extend another room since the one I currently live is small."