"First transfer was spent to pay school fees and household items like a bed, bedsheets, jerry cans. I bought a bicycle, hired cultivation land, and paid labour for constructing a pit latrine."

"Receiving this money means acquiring all the necessary household items that have not been adequate like utensils, beddings, curtains, to mention. I have some of those items but they are not enough. It also means paying school fees for my children. I have been having challenges paying tuition for my children because the little salary that my spouse gets is not enough hence their school attendance has been irregular."

"The biggest hardship I have faced is lack of money to fully cater for my family's needs. I have hardship in paying school fees, medical bills and other basic needs of the children."

"My life is currently different from how it was four months ago in I used to spent almost all my day time in doing casual jobs, picking tea at my neighbor's farm and the payment was so small, Currently, I do have time for my work farm. I spent some time checking on my poultry projects because I earn an income through this. I'm so happy because I no longer beg or struggle with casual jobs. My children also are no longer sent home to collect school fees because I pay on time."

"The biggest difference is that I was able to pay mt children's school fees. I am now a stress free person with no worries. Previoisly, I was sleeping on a floor. However, I acquired nice beautiful bedding which are lore comfortable."

"The biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer is that I used to save some amount of money in merry go round group that we have started in our village. When it was my turn, I used all the saving from the group to buy a heifer. I'm so happy because of this achievement. I will no longer buy milk. When the cow reproduced I will be in a position to sell the milk at the market center home. This will enable me to cut the cost of buying milk which is so costly for me, my family will also have enough milk for consumption. I will use the income to pay school fees for my children in various school. I'm so happy with the support because I see the hope at the end of the tunnel. My children will be no longer sent home to collect school fees and their performance will improve greatly."

"My expectation in the next six months is to have saved some good amount of money for my school fees and hopefully, I would have enrolled and continue with schooling. This will be a step towards achieving my life's dream of going to college so that I can later have a good and fulfilling life ahead."

"Before I started receiving the transfer from Give DIrectly, I used to solely depend on menial jobs in order to earn and help my spouse with our children's school fees. I used to spend so much time on other people's farms doing this such that I barely had any time to work on my own farm. My life is currently different from how it was in that I no longer go around looking for casual work to do but instead, I now concentrate on my own farm. This has greatly improved the farm's productivity and I am now happy about it. I am also less tired nowadays as compared to before when I used to really overwork myself."

"I spent my first transfer Ugx 600000 to pay up my four children school fees. I hired farm land at Ugx 600000. I then bought two metalic doors, four metalic windows that I plan to put on my already existing house at Ugx 500000."

"Hard labor was always the only choice I had in order to provide for my family. I had been trekking for long distances to a nearby town where I would work on loading and offloading cargo form lories at a wage of about kes 300 per day. This being the only sourcce of income made it difficult to even imagim how Iwould pay school fees fo rmny children next yesr. These transfers have changed my life because I have another income from livestock and poultry keeping. My family is now very stable."