"I feel so happy and empowerd to approach life with much dignity and self-esteem. I bought a dairy cow that is soon calving and hopefully will provide me with milk and ghee. This will improve on my food security and nutrition. I intend to sell the surplus which will add on my cash flow. This will enable me pay timely school fees with ease. My children will no longer be sent home as before when they used to miss lessons and exams due to lack of school fees. I also bought a water tank that I would like to harvest and store rain water. I hope this will save me from the daily budget for water during dry season and instead divert the money to buy food for my family members. As a subsistence farmer, I managed to plough a piece of land that I have already planted maize and beans, this will improve on my food security and the money I initially used to buy food can be saved and channelled to future plan of constructing a better house. Thanks to GiveDirectly that has enabled me to meet the goals of my life which I really longed for but could not manage any due to lack of steady and reliable income."

"My life is currently different from how it was in that, I am healthy and strong. I am able to perfectly do domestic chores on my own. Previously, I could not afford a balanced diet because of the meagre earnings from casual jobs. I could at times survive on water alone and this forced me to sleep under the tree as I recharge myself and then get up when I get the energy to start doing the domestic chores. Most of the times, I completely lack food. I nowadays eat three meals a day and I feel strong and healthy. This allows me to finish my house chores quickly leaving ample time to look for casual jobs."

"The biggest difference in my daily life over the last four months is that I have been able to improve our home into a more comfortable one and one that the family can take pride in. I have been able to buy cushions that has enabled us sit comfortably in our home. We also are proud to welcome visitors in our home unlike before when we could often shy off from them to stay away from embarrassments. We also have a water container. This has reduced the number of trips that my wife and my children made to the river in search of water."

"I woke up in the morning on that day and I went to fetch water for my house, before I even checked my phone. When I got there, I found some members from other groups who were discussing about the transfers and how they had received the transfers on that day. I went back home hurriedly to check my phone and I saw the message. I was very happy and excited and I immediately started to plan how I would open up a fruit business."

"I spent Ugx 760000 of my second transfer to buy cement, sand, water and paying labor that I used in plastering my already existing house. I also used some of my second transfer to buy iron sheets at Ugx 350000 that I plan to use to build for my grandchildren their own house. I then bought two goats at Ugx 130000 as a means of investment. I used the balance of my transfer to treat myself and cater for some household items such as utensils and feeding."

"I spent my first cash transfer worth UGX 700,000 as court fees over a case of land. I paid school fees for my children worth UGX 730,000. I then repaired a bicycle to facilitate my household in fetching water and transport. I bought saucepans, clothes and a mattress worth 194,000 in order to improve on our living conditions."

"I want to buy a new water tank with a capacity of 9000 Liters that I will use to store water during dry season so that I do not run out of water like what i am currently experiencing. Right now I use water from the borehole but the problem is that the water produced is what we call hard water that can only be used for limited purposes. For instance we cannot drink water from the borehole because of its hard nature."

"Two months ago, I managed to buy a water tank. Before we would walk for a long distance to fetch water for domestic use. Again I didn't even had an appropriate storage container which would sustain us for days. After I bought the tank I harvested rainwater and am happy now we got water for use. The time which I would have wasted fetching water I can spend to do other household chores."

"My life is different than it would have been because when I go out of home, I come back and find food and water readily available, thanks to a wife I married. In addition, I sleep on a bed and mattress comfortably. Before, I used to come back after labouring, start looking for water and cook for myself, then sleep on very uncomfortable floor with a mat. "

"I spent my entire Ugx 1600000 second transfer on buying and transporting more building materials such bricks, nails, timber, ironsheets, sand, water and paying labor that is currently helping me in construction of my permanent house."