"The first biggest difference in my life is that we now eat a well balanced diet compared to the past when our feeding was very poor. We all look happy and healthy. Secondly, I was very sick but when I received the cash transfer, I spent part of it to treat myself."

"I was woken by the sound of the phone at around 4.am and on checking the phone it was a message from GiveDirectly indicating that I had received money. I couldn't believe it, so I woke my spouse to give her the good news. She was so happy about the news and to her, it was a miracle. We prayed and later called my mum to check if she too got the message and to my surprise, she received the call while laughing, and she didn't seem as if she was sleeping. She could feel the joy we had, so she advised us to get back to sleep and wait until morning so that we could talk on the way forward."

"GD has improved my standards of living for example I can feed my family properly and I am soon starting to construct my house."

"I was able to acquire a piece of land, I have started a new business which has helped me earn some income at the end of the day."

"The difference I have got in my life is that I have acquired a plot of land that helped me to spare my savings that I was going to use for buying a plot of land."

"The biggest hardship I have faced is lack of enough food for my family. My family depends on daily earnings from weeding peoples farms yet sometimes after weeding we are promised pay for the following day. "

"The biggest hardship I faced was the surgery that was done on my arm. I was pricked by a poisonous wood while working in the farm, this led to my arm swelling and I had to be operated to remove the puss in the swollen arm."

"I expect to have build my new and spacious house because that is my greatest dream. In the next six I months I will be staying in a more decent house. I also have plan of buying a new sofa set once I finish building my house I surely will be the proudest man in my village due to Give directly transfers after accomplishing all these."

"The biggest hardship I am facing currently is lack of money to buy building materials like iron sheets, timber, nails and to pay labor for building my house. My house was destroyed by the heavy rains in May this year. My children do suffer from cold which make them sick for most of the time. This has affected their performance in school since they miss their classes due to ill health. I also spend a lot of money on their medical care. "

"Receiving this money means that my desire of buying my own cow will be fulfilled. Over the years, I have been relying on purchased milk for my household use - practice that is unreliable because it requires continued presence of money yet I do not have a reliable source of income. Besides, owning a cow will give me a sense of prestige and respect from my neighbors."