My life as changed ever since I received transfers from GiveDirectly. We now eat healthy meals. We hardly miss any meal because I bought food in bulk which will sustain us for a long period of time. I look healthier and more energetic because I don't engage in several casual jobs in order to put food in my table. I do casual jobs to supplement what I already have and meet my other needs. I also look decent now that I was able to buy new clothes and shoes. Clearly, there is an impact of GiveDirectly money in my life.

The fact that Give Directly visits each household is a clear indication that they are not biased and they give everybody in the village a chance to benefit from the project. I feel its a good gesture since I don't have to know someone or making friends with the village elder so as to increase my chances of getting help from Give Directly.

I spent my recent transfers to pay schools fees. I had a school fee arrears and my children used to be sent home more often. I am glad I was able to clear the fees and my children will now be able to study peacefully without being distracted. To add on that I decided to buy maize in bulk since it was a harvesting season the maize was cheaper and the amount I bought would last us up to the next season. I am also proud of my self because I don't think I would achieve all these by myself without the help of Give Directly.

Ever since I have been having some school fees arrears being carried forward to the next year. This was the opposite last year as I was able to clear my children's school fees using the money I received from GD. This really changed my daily life since I no longer have so many thoughts on where to get money to use in paying the lump sum arrears of school fees. The thought of my children not being sent back home to fetch school fees also makes me a happier parent.

It was around 4 am when I suddenly woke up after having a nightmare of having received a lump sum amount of money from an unknown person asking me to use the money to pay for my children's school fees. I immediately prayed and asked God to bless me so that I could get a way of solving my problems. After the prayer, I decided to check what time it was and it is then that I realized that I had some unread messages and upon checking them, my heart was filled with happiness as one of the messages indicated that I had received money from Givedirectly. I then started singing loudly not caring if I was disturbing my neighbors who were still sleeping and I also prayed to thank God for his blessings in my life on that particular day.

I am a single mother and paying school fees for my three children in school was a great challenge to me. This had led to me having a lot of arrears which had accumulated over time. When I received my first transfers, I decided to use part of it to pay school fees for them so as to reduce the amount of arrears I had. For the last two seasons, maize has not been doing so well in our place due to infestation by diseases and lack of enough rains. This has led to the shortage of food in our area. After paying my children's school fees, I used the remaining amount in the purchase of two sacks of maize so that it would last us for some time.