"We solely depend on my husband's income as a family. Unfortunately, his income is very low and this at times cannot sustain our family in terms of basic needs like food. "

"The money I received my first cash transfer, I felt excited because my plan of completing the construction of my permanent house had come to fulfilment."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that, my self esteem is now high since I own a cow, a radio, a mattress and I will soon sleep in a permanent house hence better living standard."

"On receiving the money, happiness was all over. As I was still sleeping, I was wondering what would have woken up the neighbors so early since I could hear some voices and touches of laughter from the nearby households. On checking the phone intending to confirm what time it was, the message icon covering my screen met my eyes. To relieve my anxiety, I decided to open the message thinking that it's the normal random service provider messages I have been receiving. Fortunately, it wasn't, what I saw made me shout sending my husband to calm me down. He had to take the phone and also read it by himself and as advised by the GiveDirectly staff during enrollment, he reminded me to calm down. We informed my mother in law since she was part of our planning team. The long silence which had been in existence between my husband and I ended that day and nowadays we are talking, laughing and at least sharing even a seat in our house which had not been happening before."

"The biggest difference in my life is the water storage tank that I bought with GiveDirectly funds. It has a capacity of 5000 Litres. Our water problems will be no more. We are only waiting for the rains to come then we harvest it. I thank God for this. We are grateful!"

"The biggest difference in my life is the happiness I have, having paid college fee for my son. I used to do casual work so as to pay fee but the transfer made my burden light. I used to save little by little for up a month so as to get something meaningful for the fee. GiveDirectly transfer enabled me to clear the arrears that were there and I am happy about this."

"In the next six months, I will have bought the dairy goat. I will not be buying milk anymore and the money that I could have used on that could be channelled to other projects."

"In the next six months l expect to have started build my kitchen."

"In the next six month l will continue pay my rent without any problem."

"In the next six months l expect to have started buy furniture since l do not have anything to sit on."