"I spent my third transfer on enrolling my child onto a polytechnic who had stayed hopelessly home for a period of one year after completing high school with no chance of furthering his education due to lack of money. I am happy seeing him go to school despite the worries paying school fees for the days ahead.Thanks to GiveDirectly for the unexpected miracle it had done in my life."

"The biggest hardship which i face in our family is sickness caused by povety and sometimes we lack food especially during dry season."

"Receiving this money is going to help us to buy more gardens for farming ,buy household properties .and the balance for paying our children's school fees."

"The biggest hardship which i face is lack of enough money for paying school fees for my siblings. "

"I plan to spend this transfers in paying schools fees for my children studying at mbale secondary school, and mbale community polytechnic. They will quality in different fields and get jobs that will improve their wellbeing."

"Receiving this money means building a new iron roof house.This house will change the outlook of my compound since the old iron roof house that my late husband built, twenty years ago is collapsing."

"The biggest hardship i have faced is lack of money to buy land. I inherited my fathers land in sironko but common landslides in the land have made the area risky for settlement, burrying people almost every year, destroying houses and the few crops that we grow."

"I spent my third transfer on plastering my house which I had constructed using my second transfer. Additionally, I had not inserted windows and doors in the same house which I again accomplished with the last transfer. I am now so happy that my house is fully constructed and very attractive. Besides those, I paid school fee for my child in secondary school. In my entire life since marriage, I have always served as a house help in order to raise school fee for this child who have always shown much interest and dedication in academics."

"I spent my third transfer on paying school fees for my two secondary school going children who used to be sent home each and every time because of fee arrears. I now do not have stress on where to get money for paying their school fees."

"I spent my third on buying building materials that I used to build a new house. My previous house was so small and was constructed with only 14 iron sheets. I am now in a very spacious house. It is now three roomed. I also bought steel windows and doors. The remaining amount I spent on buying some livestock that reminds me of GiveDirectly. They are like my assets too."