"My life has improved now, the transfer has enabled me buy a piece of land where I am going to construct my home. Before, I was staying in a rentle, stressed and hopeless of getting any money that would enable me get this big a chievement. I thank GiveDirectly for the transfers."

"My life is better now, I am able to have at least two meals a day since there is money for me to buy any thing I want to eat . My body is heathier unlike before when I could eat once in a day and my health was deteriorating with no medical attention."

"My life is different in that I have constructed a spacious iron roofed house to accomodate me and my children. Before, we were sleeping in a small grass thatched house with a leaky roof."

"The greatest achievement is that I constructed a permanent house with the cash transfers. In my entire life I had no hopes of ever constructing a permanent house. Not withstanding this, GiveDirectly has empowered me fulfil this dream."

"I am glad that the cash transfers empowered me financially to pay the children's school fees. The second cash transfers completed the construction of a permanent house. Unfortunately,in the month of May, my house was destroyed by heavy rains. I was miserable because my dreams of living under a permanent house were shuttered."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have built a better house for my family. We used to live in small mud house before which could not host all my family members comfortably. I have grown up children and its a taboo in our culture to sleep in one house with them. I always feared to welcome visitors to my house because I did not have a decent house and no space for them. Whenever I had an emergency I would prefer to pitch a tent outside the house for the meetings. My children used to walk during the night to spend a night at their grandmother's house and this was so risky for them in terms of security. Sometimes they could fail to complete their school assignments because of the movement during the night after taking their supper. Their performance in school was going down because of that. Currently, I have a decent house and my children have their own decent room to sleep and do their assignment on time and this has led to performance improvement at school because they no longer miss studying while at home. I no longer fear to welcome visitors to my home because I have enough space to host them. I am so grateful for the support from GiveDirectly that has changed our living standards a great deal."

"My life is different now than before in that I was able to get back my land that I will be cultivating on to increase the food production that will later serve as an investment when I sell off the harvest to cater for my family needs. Prior to getting this transfer, I had less farm land and ended up at times hiring farm land."

"My life is different now because I was able to use my transfer to further my studies at a Primary Teachers College given that I was a senior four drop up. This will now help me to have a career of my own. Prior to getting this transfer, I had no hope of ever going back to school because my parents had given up on me after I had got pregnant while at school."

"Although it was the use of my first transfer, my life is truely different in that, I am happy and relieved having managed to pay up a debt (bank loan) worth Ugx 2000000 that my husband and I had got to open up our general merchandise shop. Prior to getting this money, I always doubted if we would ever get that money paid and our last resort was to sell off some assests we had to clear that loan. Secondly, I am delighted to see that I was able to start up another business (saloon) and at the same time, boost my existing one (general merchandise shop). This will now be a source of income to my family. However, before getting this transfer, my general merchandise shop was at a verge of collapsing and I had no where to look to get money to boost it."

"In the next six months, I hope that we will have bought all the required materials with the transfers we have been saving over the last seven months and built a new decent house. This shall relieve me from the struggles I face on a daily basis like having a leaky and rotten grass thatch roof that makes our current house to be infested with insects."