"In the next six months, I expect to have plastered my house. I know I will have raised enough money to buy all the requirements to plaster my house including labor money for the masons. This will make me proud and in addition to that, I won't be spending much time to look for clay to smear the house as it has been the case."

"I felt very excited when I received the transfer. This was my first time to receive such an enormous amount of money in history."

"My life has changed because I have cultivated g-nuts for sell on farm land I rented. I hope to use the proceeds for supporting my children like buying food and treatment. Previously, I used to share with my father his farm land."

"Receiving this money means I will be in position to marry a wife. Since my parents passed on way back, I have never got the opportunity to marry and yet living alone as an individual is not easy. I have no one to help me do all that I have to do. I am I hopping to buy some cows that I can pay as bride price to my parents-in-law before I can finally settle."

"Lack of farm land is the biggest hardship that I am faced with. I do not have where to cultivate and yet this could have been the best way for me to support my family. I do casual labour to get food and some money to take care of other household needs in order to keep moving. Whatever I am able to earn is either spent or eatten. I have not had an oppotunity to save anything because of the way I live."

"The biggest hardship I have faced is lack of money to take care of the family's basic needs such as Education, proper feeding, medical care and clothings."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is inadequacy of farm land. While my husband was alive, he sold the biggest part of the land that we had and now I am left with only one garden that is not enough to support me well. I do casual labour most of the time just to try to find something that can suppliment the little that I harvest in order to survive."

"The biggest hardship I have faced is poverty. I left my ancestral home in Katakwi district 5 years ago after Karamojongs raided our land. My sister took me up here but I don't have all the liberty to do something to develop my self."

"The moment I received money from GiveDirectly, I felt very happy because I was going to have change in myself example sleeping in permanent house."

"The moment I received my money, I felt so happy because I have never received such an amount of money that will change my livelihood soon."