"My life is different now because I live peaceful in that I managed to complete the dowry of my spouse therefore I'm so proud of it since im no longer a laughing stock in the community. Nowadays I can plough with my own oxen and farm anytime I wish unlike before whereby I could beg for people to plough for me. These transfers have greatly impacted my life positively economically, socially and physologically. Prior to getting transfers my life was so difficult whereby I solely depended on causal work to take care of my family."

"I do not expect my life to change very much in the next six months because I still want to establish my business which I started recently. I have decided to save my monthly transfers for the coming months hoping to boost my business because I know that this is what will help me to achieve my goals."

"I will have completed my tailoring course in the next six months, and I hope that I will have opened my own tailoring shop where I can earn my own money. Having my own source of income will be such a great thing to my husband and to my entire family because we will be sharing the family expenses which will greatly reduce the strain my husband is currently facing."

"In the next six months I expect to have produced up to 10000 bricks and sell them. The money got from the brick business shall help me build a new house and pay school fees much more easily than I can now."

"I hope that in the next six months, I will have constructed the new iron-roofed house that I am planning to construct. This will definitely give me relief of paying monthly house rent and I will no longer have quarrels and disagreements with my landlord due to late payments."

"I expect my life to change in that I shall have taken my two children to their various colleges and successfully settle them as they try to make their own future bright. This is definitely a priority to me since there is nothing that could make me more happier than to give the best in terms of education to my children. I am looking forward to doing this."

"Due to lack of employment, i have been forced to work as a casual labourer miles away from home in someone's farm. This has been a great challenge since i got married two months ago and my wish has always been to live under the same roof with my wife in order to avoid loneliness. I usually come home one weekend in a month which i feel it aint enough time to spend with my wife and child. I however hope things will change upon receiving this money since i plan to open a shop in the nearby shopping centre and operate in it myself."

"My life is different than it would have been because we built an iron sheet roofed house and sleep without the inconvenience of a leaking grass thatched house, having acquired livestock, future money problems can be solved when these are sold. Before, we used to sleep under a leaky grass thatched house causing children to cry when it rains at night, and there was nothing to look after as an asset in the home like we now have cows."

"Life is different in that I now sleep in an iron sheet roofed house, and GiveDirectly has enabled acquire a cow that will reproduce to give me money if sold. Before, I used to sleep under a leaking grass thatched house which would be an inconvenience when it rains and didn't have any asset of my own."

"My life is different than it would have been because I am happy to have cultivation land to grow food crops, livestock, better sleeping on a bed with a mattress, better feeding on time, and my ailing children received better treatment from hospital, all thanks to these transfers. Before, I used to sleep on the floor with a mat where black ants would bite, feeding was irregular at home, and I could have lost one of the children to ailment if I had not received this money, and I wouldn't get that opportunity to have a mobile phone in my home in a life time. "