"I have a big difference in my daily life since I have been eating well; I have been taking a balance diet since I started receiving these transfers which has given me a total piece of mind and healthy life."

"GD gives cash to all the poor irrespective of their age while other NGOs only sponsors students in school."

"I got transfers when we never had food and I thank GD for making my children stronger. Since then they have been getting sufficient food and balanced diet, the biggest difference in my daily life."

"Other organizations only use the poor and vulnerable to benefit their officers, unlike GiveDirectly that acts with lots of tranparency."

"I had a small house but i afforded to expand it and now i am happy living in it because i now have my own room away from the children. I will revive my saloon business from which i can earn a daily income."

"Initially, I lived in an old iron roof, that could pour water on us, making us terribly cold, affecting us with malaria. The biggest difference is that we are now living warmly and healthy in under the new roof."

"The achievement we're proudest of is having been able build our current house,through table banking with other women in my village I was able to save money and bought building materials."

"The biggest hardship we face currently is on paying school fees for our child in secondary school, I'm a casual labourer and this means the job opportunities are rare and not permanent making it hard to have a steady income. "

"The biggest hardship I'm facing currently is on making ends meet,we fully relay on farming which in some cases does not do well due to drought. "

"The biggest hardship I am facing in my life is lack of money to cater for household necessities, because almost all my earnings as a teacher goes towards paying fees for the children. "