"In the next six months, I expect my life to change. I will have peace of mind as my grandchildren's school fees shall have reduced with a significant amount. They will be able to spend more time at school studying and not home idling. This is the best thing that should happen to me, I am praying to God and asking GiveDirectly not to stop the support they are giving me and my family. They are my hope now."

"I expect my life to change a lot in the next six months because we shall be having sufficient milk for consumption and sale. The cow that I purchased sometimes back will be lactating. Subsequently, I shall be saving lots of money which could otherwise be used to buy milk (the most common food item in our meals). Still, I will be saving most of the transfers from GiveDirectly to finance a new business for the other son that failed to join secondary school due to inadequacy of funds in our family."

"In the next six months, I plan to buy building materials such as iron sheets, nails and timber which I will use in building a house for my firstborn son. He is still in secondary school but I want to build a house for him so that his siblings can also spend in his house and avoid going to my neighbour's house at night to find a place to sleep."

"After I got married four years ago, my ambition has been to build a second house to accommodate an inevitable expanding family. This has since not been possible because proceeds I get from my small maize vending business can only fend for our daily bread. With an increasing family almost every two years, my hut cannot accommodate the current family of four -even harder in a few years to come. But thanks to Give Directly I am about to rewrite the narrative. Receiving my first transfer puts me in a position to build another house that will reduce the congestion among my children, wife and I under the same roof. This is the life of dignity I have yearned to achieve. "

"Receiving this money is an assurance that my children will be able to continue with their education.I am a widow without any stable source of income and for a long period of time,I have really been struggling with getting money to educate My children.I am very passionate about education because I have seen how the educated children of my friends have thrived in life after completing school and getting good jobs and I want the same for my children.With this money, I plan to start a general shop within our local market to generate for me enough income so that I can afford paying for my sons driving course and my daughter's secondary education."

"When my daughter sat for her exams, I knew that she would pass, my worries was how she would continue with her education, since I had no adequate resources to support that. I managed to pay School fees for her for the three academic years. With the little savings I get from my business, I believe I will be able to raise money for her college and other children's education. My life has changed from desperation to hopefulness."

"As I indicated earlier, I was a pauper, with nothing to depend on. Being that I have got children to feed, clothe, educate, and provide shelter to, it could be difficult to meet all the demands and this forced me to go and work on sugarcane farm in order to get what we could eat. At the moment, that is a thing of the past and I have things which were just dream to me in my entire life."

"In the next six months, I am hopeful that my savings and family income shall have grown. This because of the extra hair clipper I have bought enabling me to serve more customers in my barbershop and even the goal of opening up the cereal business will make my life change for the better as I shall have expanded my markets."

"In the next six months, I plan to pay school fees for my children. I would not want my children to be sent home every now and again for school fees. I will use the transfers to pay their arrears bit by bit until I clear all the fees balances so that they can have humble time to study and get good grades."

"I want to become a full time poultry farmer because I know that this venture has a lot of profit. The reason why I say that is because I have tried it in the past and I am so sure that it works, it only needs dedication and patience. Having tried the business before, I know there is a ready market for the business and the buyers are always available, so long as the birds are mature and ready for sale. I am eager to get into this business because for one it does not require so much capital to kick-start, and the more birds I keep the more the profits I will be generating."