"My life has improved and I feel more at peace because I managed to achieve my goals that I couldn't do on my own especially raising fee for my orphaned grandchildren and meeting their basic needs. I therefore don't strain so much to achieve them. This is the biggest difference in my daily life."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am able to pay school fees for my children."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am happy seeing my child through his education with a lot of ease as he hasn't been sent home more frequently due to school fees arrears as he used to .My husband and I are just causal labors who are underpaid hence the income we make is very little that can't sustain the household's basic needs."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now live in a spacious and stable house. The house I previously had was too small and was almost going down but could not establish a better due to financial challenges."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am happy and hopeful of having my own homestead since I have already bought the necessary building materials that will necessitate the commencement of building a decent three roomed house that I have been longing for in a long time. I can say that I feel honored since have stopped to be a laughing stack in my village.Thanks to GiveDirectly for changing my living standards."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is the restored hopes of ever acquiring a good house as my fellow villagers."

"My life is different than it would have been if I never received the transfer in that currently, I live in a better house-my former house was very pathetic-it was a grass-thatched house and it used to leak on us terribly and again, we light with solar panel. I don't need to rely on paraffin, which was emitting a lot of smoke and too expensive to afford, anymore."

"My life will change because I will be able to pay school fees with ease as compared to how I used to struggle."

"The biggest hardship I have faced is having my children stay out of school for almost a month due to school fees areas that I was unable to pay."

"My biggest hardship is paying school fees to my three children who are in secondary school, i have been doing that through toil as i said before that i am a peasant farmer, but through poor climatic change, the crop production has been low, and that has caused negative impact on my income."