"I believe it is GiveDirectly that has enabled me have a business premise. My dream of owning a shop would have had to wait a little longer to be a reality. I am so indebted to GiveDirectly."

"In the next six months, my life will have changed in that I will have improved my homestead. I intend to fence my compound to keep it decent. The will prevent cows from trampling on my efforts to grow trees for shade and even flowers. It will also give me privacy within the compounds as opposed to the way it is very open at this moment."

"It was early in the morning when I heard my phone vibrate and upon checking the message I was amazed to see that I had received money from GiveDirectly. I shared the news with my spouse, and she was happy too."

"My expectation in the next few months is that my poultry project would be smoothly running and expect that I will have some good returns from it. This will enable be manage the resources required in the nursing school and that of my school going children. I also expect to have an improved the lifestyle of my family, that I am able to provide adequate and healthy food my children and even extra to save."

"When I woke up I went straight to check on my phone as usual but on this day I was surprised to see two messages blinking on the phone. I got curious, opened the message and to my surprise I had received money from GiveDirectly. It was such an amazing moment, and I was so grateful."

"In the next six months I have a plan to continue with my agriculture and at least diversify the plantations ranging from maize, beans and also potatoes. This will ensure cconstsnt supply of foodtuff for my household. We havee been depending on other farmers too much on their cultivation since we have been buying almost every food yet we have a good and wide piece of land. it being a new year we have decided as a family that we will be doing new things with new style. as we do all these, We only pray that God will give us good health and give GiveDirectly more effort to reach out to other villages."

"GiveDirectly has enabled me to initiate self-employment through horticultural farming. I never feel desperate and hopeless as before. I have a program for each day's activities that starts from morning to evening. The farm gives me hope for each day as I know that sooner, I will start harvesting and earning from the sales of vegetables. I could be so much frustrated without GiveDirectly transfers. I would be the the gossip of the community."

"GiveDirectly has delivered us from the bondage of poverty that was very obvious in my household. I can now walk with confidence and Interact with others with dignity as I no longer walk in rags that was the gossip in the village. I can as well provide for more meals for my children, unlike the previous case when we had only a meal in a day. My children are in school because their fee arrears are well settled and are never sent home more often as before. They have full time concentration in their studies and this has resulted into improved performance. Without GiveDirectly, I would be desperate and hopeless."

"Putting my previous life and present life in comparison, I may like to say that my life has really changed. I was having a Small house that could not accommodate the number of family members. Sometimes, I used to look for chairs from neighbourhood when having visitors, this could lower my dignity, but now, my house is well furnished with comfortable chairs."

"I had a dream of living in a permanently built house and this was just a dream to me. Today, I am proud that I now live in the house of my dream. I used to spend a lot of money in repair, but now it is a thing of the past. I will be able to divert such resources into a more productive projects like sugarcane farming and dairy farming which I have already started."