"The biggest difference in my daily life is the beauty I see in my home since I was able to renovate my house and put chairs in it and build a personal pit latrine. I no longer have to go to my neighbors place to ease myself."

"My life has changed in a way that, I have bought construction materials that I intend to use for building my children's house. In addition, I am to settle the debt that I currently have which will enable me repossess my piece of land that is in the possession of the money lender. Previously I didn't have enough money to settle the debt and buy construction materials much as I needed to build a separate house for my children."

"I expect to have finished buying iron sheets and the construction of my new house will have commenced. This will bring joy in me as I have longed to move out of my father-in-law's compound."

"My life will soon change after completing to build my permanent house which is at ring beam level. I'm optimistic that, I will stop having sleepless night when it rains. Currently, I'm still sleeping in a leaking thatched house."

"In the next six months I expect my life to change in that I shall have bought the dairy cow and be able to engage in improved farming practices. The dairy cow shall definitely bring an end to the money being spent on buying milk and enable us to make other meaningful family investments that will bring about a rise in the living standards of our family."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have been able to settle all my school fees as at now. This has brought total peace of mind for me and my husband who has been struggling with blood pressure for a long time now. This has brought a lot of happiness in my family. We have done several fund raisers to raise money to pay school fees for our children and even sold a fair share of our properties for our children. We felt we were becoming a bother to the people by asking them to support us every other time. We are grateful that they did and we are even more grateful that GiveDirectly came in handy to assist us as well."

"On seeing my phone light up, I heard people making joyous noise and on checking my phone, I had also got my money. At that moment, I felt so happy. I had got much money! It would now help me solve some financial issues."

"I expect to have some changes in my life because for one I know that by that time, my business will be up and running effectively so I will be getting profits on a day to day basis. The number of sheep will have also increased and that means in case I run into a financial crisis, then I can easily sell out one or two of them and earn some cash in return."

"I am planning to buy a cow in the next six months in remembrance of Give Directly. I chose to buy a cow because as long as it is well taken care of it will serve you for the rest of your life. They usually give birth after a short period of time and the require little attention as long as they are healthy and have enough fees. Their feeds are locally available and can easily be grown in this area. This means that one cow will grow and reproduce and with this I will forever have to remember to Give Directly."

"Since my transfer came through at the time my children were sent home for fees, at that moment, I felt so happy that I was to send my children to school immediately and they were not going to do casual labor to raise their fee. They were not going staying home for long."