"After I am done clearing the loan, I will save the remaining bits of the transfers so that I can buy a goat that will be a long term investment of these tranfers."

"My goal this year is to take my children to see their grandparents and bond with other members of the family. To be able to do that I have to finish the construction of my rural house. So this year most of my income together with that of my husband will be geared towards construction."

"My life has changed in that I now have peace of mind having acquired a piece of land for me to stay. I was staying in my parent's home and my brothers were not happy with me because I came back when the marriage broke. In my culture it is not right for a girl to leave the marital home regardless of the conditions of marriage."

"My life has changed because I have married a wife. My wife takes good care of me and I 'm happy. Before I married I had a challenge because cooking was not easy and I could sleep without food some days."

"My life is different now because I sleep in an iron roofed house. Before I got the transfer, termites could destroy the thatch and the wall of my hut and I could replace grass thatch yearly. Now that am aging and getting weaker, GiveDirectly has saved me from this struggle."

"My life is different in that I now own a cow, got farm land on mortgage. I will also cultivate a variety of crops come the rainy season unlike before when I had only one acre of land ."

"My life has changed, I now have enough kitchen utensils and cooking is easy. I and my husband also got treatment that we were not able to get due to lack of money. I had a complication in the uterus while my husband has Hepatitis B I had one sauspan and cooking was not easy . I could first make sauce, pour in the dish when it got ready and use the same sauspan to mingle bread."

"My life is different because I own my livestock and I dress well. Before, I did not have cows of my own."

"I am planning to buy twenty goats from the transfers and add the tally that I have.This will help me venture more to livestock farming and do away with more physical jobs since I feel that my body is becoming weaker.For the remaining transfers ,I will buy two beds for my children who have never had the priviledge of using one."

"My life has greatly changed because this transfer has made it posdible for me to own a bigger bed and a mattress. Futher more, I'm in the process of constructing a permanent house for my family members. Before, I used to sleep on a smaller mattress for 13 years of our marriage. I had a challenge of looking for scare thatch yearly to renovate my hurt."