After receiving my three transfers from GiveDirectly, been that my boyfriend and I were not doing anything that could bring forth income to sustain us, I used all my three transfers and bought a brand new motorbike for business purpose. Now that the bike is in traffic and running on commercial basis and is now a source of income for us, my new goal now is to built a two bed room house for us. Therefore, I used half of my money and bought two bundles of zinc as a start up material. And the balance money was used to pay debts owed from the saving club. I am very excited about the happenings in my life right now. This is all happening because of GiveDirectly financial assistance. Thanks to GiveDirectly for this life changing opportunity brought to us.

Firstly, I am grateful to GiveDirectly for this great financial favour done for me. For years we couldn't handle such a huge amount of money. Our survival was depended solely on hand out. Gracefully, GiveDirectly came to our rescue with this financial freedom and now our lives are changing gradually for the better. GiveDirectly did everything well from the start of the program until now. Therefore, I have not seen anything wrong done by GiveDirectly. I remain forever thankful for their kind gestures.

Before I started receiving payment from GiveDirectly, my life was empty financially, my brother and I had nothing doing. Affording even a daily meal was something hard to do. For this reason, since I started receiving transfers from GiveDirectly, I saved up my three transfers and bought a motorbike for business purpose. Now that we have a source of income, my new goal now is to built our own two bedrooms house. With that said, I used half of my transfer and bought two bundles of zinc as a start up material. The remaining money was used to pay my debts owed the saving club. Now with income for the bike I will be able to continue with my building project. Thanks to GiveDirectly for adding meaning to our lives. I am very fortunate to be part of this unique program.

I have had previous goals. These goals were to build a house and to invest into business and pay my tuition. Due to the difficulties caused by poverty, I could not afford to accomplish these goals. My decision of building a house is based on my living conditions. I am living with my boyfriend's brother alone with my boyfriend. We do not have any privacy in the home. I believe that investing in business is going to help me in the future a lot if the money from Givedirectly stops coming.

My expectations in life was never for anyone to give me such amount of money. But GiveDirectly have blown my mind by giving me such huge amount of money to develop my life. I have not seen anything wrong about GiveDirectly whole program because I have noticed that they reach out to every deserving households in various communities.

I was able to use portion of my first transfer to buy one motorbike for business purpose. While my boyfriend is running the motorbike to save more money for our our future, I am also doing some sale of my goods that I bought with the transfer. For the purpose of my plans, my second and third transfer have not been taken from my account because I need it to start my house project and purchase more goods again for my business.

I have planned to buy zinc and build a house. I have also been wanting to live in my own house with my family but unfortunately for me I have no solution for my plans. I am living in my husband brother's house. I also planned to invest into business to extend my hands just incase I am broke and have no where to take money from. I have not been able to achieve those plans because I have no money to do anything. Right now, I am very much happy and satisfy because of the transfer from Givedirectly. It has helped me so greatly to empower myself and get a brighter future.

In my opinion, GiveDirectly have been able to reach out to all deserving people who are eligible for it's program. There have been no favourite recipients on the program because everyone on the program are treated equally. The employees does well by reaching out to every deserving households. For me, I have not been able to see anything wrong about GiveDirectly.

I am so glad for my life as of now. My plans are being achieve gradually. I was able to divide my transfer into three quarters. Portion of my transfer was used on my business, the other portion was used on my house project, the other portion was used on tuitions. I was curious to see myself back to school because I want to secure a better future for myself.

"I was with my friends sitting when I received the message. When I went through it; I noticed that was GiveDirectly money. I was so happy about this because it was my very first time to receive such amount of money from anyone. When I got the money I began to think weather this was really true or not, but when I realised that this was fact, I began to planned how to use this money and brighten my future and the future of my family".

"I am well improve in life now than when I have not received GiveDirectly cash transfer. I am stress free now because I am no more worrying about where to get money from to build myself a decent house and send my children to school. My family and I are happy for such opportunity that we have never expected and is making our lives more better and decent than our previous lives; we can now have better meals everyday from our transfer, it has really made me very happy".

"I have planned to invest into business that will help me and my family whenever my financial strength is going low. I will build myself a decent house that is far better than what I have here before, a house that will accommodate me and my family. I have also planned to go to school to secure myself a better future".