"Upon receiving my first transfer, I spent KES 30000 to buy a dairy cow. I resolved to buy this cow because through it I will be getting milk which I am planning to sell. I already had a herd in my homestead and I am happy that I have been able to add to my cowshed. I am also expecting that it will reproduce and have many of them. Even when I am faced with a financial problem, I will be able to sell the offspring and raise more finance. My husband is also operating a shop business which has been our main source of income. Thus I invested KES 15000 to add stock to it so as to enable him operate profitably. Apart from this, I also spent KES 8000 to clear school fees for my child in high school."

"When I received my transfers, I bought livestock for rearing. All my life I have wished to own livestock but this dream was next to impossible since I was not certain where I was going to get such an amount of money. Give directly has bridged the wide gap between me and my dreams. Besides that, I also paid school fees arrears for my children and went ahead and stocked foodstuff. This has improved my living standards and I am a happy parent."

"I love investing my children as I know they will one day give back to us in better away. I value my children education thus I do any kind of casual jobs to see them in school. Raising their school fees has not been easy with the scarce resources in our family. The biggest difference in my daily life ever since I received transfer from GiveDirectly is seeing my children study without interruption in school after paying their school fees with part of it. I feel so happy and thankful when I see them in school knowing that they have good grades to take to next level of education and later on have good jobs."

"My greatest desire has been to extend a one room for my big boys who are currently spending their nights in the same room in which my daughters do sleep. I have wished to separate them but due to financial crisis, I have never managed to do this. My first plan once I receive the transfers from GiveDirectly is to spend the initial disbursement to buy blocks and construct one room. The other transfer will aid in paying my children's school fees since I have big arrears."

"I have been in position to pay my children's school fees with ease and on time with the transfers and because of this, I constructed an iron roofed house with the money I got from the harvest. I would have not construted the house if I had not got the GiveDirectly money because priority would be to pay the fees."

"It has become easy for me to provide for my family since I received the money, my children are happy because I can afford food and pay their school fees. Before, I could involve all my family members including children to do casual labour for survival."

"I spent my first transfer for paying school fees of UGX 1,000,000 and UGX 700,000 for completing the construction of a poultry house."

"Before the transfers, I used to really struggle to meet my needs especially paying school fees for my children. I would really struggle since I only depended on income from farming as my main source of income. In most cases, my children would be sent home for fees arrears and would stay at home for as long as a week as I was still looking for the money to pay. Ever since I started receiving my monthly transfers, I have been using them on a daily basis to pay for fees arrears for my children. In the last one year, they have never been sent home for fees arrears again."

"Through this cash transfer, I was in position to rent farm land in preparation for the planting season. I am hopeful of food security in my home because I intend to cultivate grand nuts and other food crops. Previously, I suffered from food shortage because I could not even just hire farm land. Secondly, I also now rear sheep for future purposes like generating income for my children's school fees and paying medical bills."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is the advancement in education on my side. I never thought that I would accumulate enough money from my odd casual jobs that would allow me pursue my studies further. Receiving this money has seen me clear my secondary school fees arrears and be able to pursue my dream course of CPA. This will enable me keep an edge with other graduates in my field of Cooperative management-Accounts and be able to get a job that will change my life all together."