"There is a change in my life because I now sleep in an iron roofed house that I constructed with the transfers. I have also recovered the farm land after paying the loan. Before, I was sleeping in a grass thatched house that could leak and not spacious enough. I had only an acre of land which limited my farming potential."

"My life is different now because GiveDirectly gave me an opportunity to hold money that I thought I would never get in life. With this cash, I have purchased my cow and food. I have some money that I am still planning for. Keeping money in my house is such a good feeling and I am able to buy any thing I want. Before I received this cash, I never had peace of mind because all I could think of is how to get what to eat."

"The difference that I have seen in my life is that, I now have an iron roofed house that I constructed with the transfers. I will be moving into it soon. Having stocked food, I feel food secure. Prior to receiving the transfers I used to sell my harvest inorder to meet the family basic needs and nothing was left for consumption."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will be having my own cow. I would not want to go back to being sent home for the same. I would want change my life for the better with the opportunity given to me by GD."

"I expect that my life will have changed in the next six months in that I will have started a poultry keeping project. I will be using my transfers to achieve this slowly by buying at least two chicken every month. Also, I will have planted some tea cuttings in my nursery. This is an everlasting investment which will not only profit me but also grandchildren."

"Receiving this money means I will be able to build an iron roofed house, buy oxen that will support in farming, take care of the education needs of my children and provide food for the family. I believe this will make my home a better place."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is lack of money. I sleep in an incomplete house because I don't have money to complete the construction. I sold all the livestock that my late husband left me with but still the money raised was not enough. Now I am left with nothing. I depend on agriculture for survival. "

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is lack of money. I don't have any income generating activity. I would have loved to do business but I don't have capital to start it. At some point, I started a business of selling petrol but it failed. The capital was too little to support it."

"My biggest hardship is poor hygiene and sanitation. I do not have a complete pit latrine which comes with diseases that are affecting household members frequently. I desire to complete constructing a descent pit latrine but due to my old age and disability, I can not do it on my own. My source of income is from farming which is not reliable due to floods and drought which come intermittently. "

"Receiving this money means owning a business which will empower me to buy cows that I will use for paying bride price. In my culture, a boy is expected to give cows to the girl's family as an appreciation for the proper up bringing of their daughter. I will continue with the same business in order to support my family or household."