"It was 4:00 am in the morning I was wakened up by a message alert on my phone and upon looking at it. I found that GiveDirectly had sent me money. I felt very happy because I knew most of my financial problems will be solved and having thought GiveDirectly's programme was blackmail and this act disapproved my ideology. The funniest thing I was able to sleep up to later during the day."

"I was woken by a message notification on my phone early in the morning. On checking to confirm, it was from GiveDirectly informing me that I had received my first transfer. I was overwhelmed with joy because the transfer would enable me to fulfil the only desire I had even before GiveDirectly came to our village; to get a source of income by offering catering services to meet my family basic needs and other financial needs."

"My life has changed because I own my piece of land for Agriculture which I'm planning to cultivate my food crops when the rainy season starts. Before, I had to rent which was expensive and at times the piece of land would be far away from home."

"Before I was a part-time dobby despite the meagre income, I could pay my school fees with this and it was so challenging. It reached a point in time that I felt I would drop out of college because missing to attend classes most often, affected my grades that made me a weak student hence it demotivated me a lot. Currently, my life different than it would have been if I never receive this transfer in that I have started two small retail business and the income I am getting I pay my college fees with ease. Thanks to GiveDirectly for enabling me to achieve my goal of pursuing my education."

"I have no new goal but to save for my college education. I believe through completing college I will be able to get employed and provide for my family with ease. The challenge I am facing which includes exempting classes to work on odd jobs to pay my college fees and I feel its a distraction to the success of my education"

"My life is different now, my dreams and plans have come to pass. I am happy and my mind is settled because I have constructed a two bedroomed iron roofed house and I am hopefull of marrying a wife. I used to gamble with life and completely had no hope."

"In the next six months, I expect to have fully engaged in potato farming. I already have a piece of land ready for this activity. It is an activity that I hope will change my life since the business in this sector is currently booming. My plan is also to sell sheep and have my next step -to buy a young cow and I hope to have accomplished this by the end of the six months."

"Receiving this money means that I shall spend it to build iron-roofed house for better acommdation. The current house I sleep leaks a lot and whenever it rains ,we have to fold our beddings. This is so much irritating."

"When I receive this money, I will enroll to school and pursue a course in journalism so that I can attain a brighter future."

"The biggest hardship I face is lack of enough money for buying a plot ,that I will build rentals to let out for money. This money which can be realised out of rentals will help in paying school fees for my children. "