"Currently, my life is different from how it was in that I am now hopeful and at peace. The transfer has enabled me to pay for my accommodation for the whole semester. I have been able to study well as a result of this. Previously, I was staying with a friend outside the college. The place was far and at times I had to miss lessons whenever I did not have transport to go to college. I have never missed lessons since I started living inside the college compound. Thanks to Give Directly."

"I felt very happy on receiving the transfer from GiveDirectly. I felt so happy that finally, I was going to be able to build a new house using the funds that I received from GiveDirectly. I kept thinking of how my whole life would change going forward considering the struggle that I had gone through for a long time living in a small grass-thatched house."

"I spent part of my transfer to boost my business. I normally distribute sweets to the local shops in our area and the nearby neighborhood. I have been depending on this business for a long time now and seeing it improve has made me happy. I also saved some amount hoping to join college. I dropped out of college because of lack of funds. I had to pay for myself because my parent doesn't work. I had to do odd jobs to take care of all my needs including paying school fees but it reached a point where it was overwhelming and I had to defer my studies."

"The transfer has enabled me to fulfil some of the things like having a decent house, that to me seemed impossible. I never thought that I would renovate my house which was in a terrible and pitiable state due to financial hardships. When I received the money, I purchased enough building materials like iron sheets and building poles to facilitate the renovation of my house, and this makes it to be the biggest difference in my daily life."

"Acquiring a motorcycle has been the biggest difference in my daily life. Since buying the motorcycle, we have been getting an income through the provision of taxi services in our locality. This income has enabled us to fulfil our families basic needs such as daily foodstuffs. Apart from this, I also use the motorbike to fetch water, since water shortage in our has affected us severely such that we have to travel for several kilometres. Thus it has relieved us of the stress of carrying water by ourselves over a long distance which is tiresome."

"I was woken up by a message very early in the morning and I was curious to know who could have sent a message at that hour. On checking to confirm, I could not contain the joy that I felt when I realized that I had received money from GiveDirectly. I thanked them for their financial support which would uplift my living standards."

"I was woken up by a message notification on my phone early in the morning and on checking to confirm who the sender was, I was greatly overjoyed and excited as I learnt the message was from GiveDirectly informing me that I had finally received my first transfer. I was even happier on the thought that I would soon join a college to get skills on hairdressing and start my salon."

"I shall have ventured into poultry farming to help in the generation of income for the family. I would not want to struggle as before to meet my family needs as before. I want to use the transfers to make a big difference for the future."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that bought a piece of land for farming. I did not inherit so much land for farming as I would want to. This is the reason why I have decided to buy a piece of land to expand my farming practice."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have built a new house. I would want to use my transfers to buy building materials such as iron sheets, timber, and nails which I will use in building a house in my own compound. Right now I am staying in my parent's compound and would want to have my own."