"We shall use the money to reduce the poverty in my household. This means the house will be roofed with iron sheets, good window frames and cement floor. The rest will go towards some expenditures to beautify the inside the house such as good plates,pots clothes and beddings."

"My first priority when I receive the money is building a one bedroom house. My current house is very small and the roof is grass thatched. During the rainy season I am usually forced to seek shelter in my brother's house. The house will cost me around 300 USD. I will also buy a bed and a mattress so that I can sleep comfortably. I will then budget another 300 USD to buy 10 goats. Goat rearing will ensure that I have something to sell when I require emergency funds."

"For a long time my biggest desire has been to provide a good shelter for my family. However, this dream has never come true because it requires enough finances to facilitate the project. This has therefore reduced us to living in a single roomed house that serves as the kitchen too. To make it worse, the structure is a delicacy to termites because of its grass thatched roof. This causes it to leak during rainy seasons thus eroding the mud walls. Receiving this money therefore means, building a better house for us."

"She used the cash to purchase iron sheets which she used to improve the roof of her house, cement,chairs and window flames"

"For me and my family, receiving this money is a huge relief as it will enable me to buy enough food for my household as we have been starving for far too long. It will also help us to renovate the house and put up an iron roof since it is grass thatched"

"Receiving this money will help me renovate my house as it is old and is grass thatched. I intend to put up an iron roof so that it stops leaking. I also intend to buy enough food so that I do not starve"

"Receiving this money really means so much to me the biggest problem i have is my house it leaks too much especially this rain season and i want to renovate the roof."

"Through the GiveDirectly transfers, I have bought my own dairy cow hence reducing milk purchasing costs for the past seven years. I have also improved my house from a tiny old grass thatched house to a more spacious Iron roofed house.The transfers have also enabled me access clean water and this has helped save the time that would be used for fetching water on farming. All these would be possible were it not for GiveDirectly."

"I spent most of my second transfer on completion of my two roomed timberwalled house which I had started building using the first transfer.This because the previous one was a three roomed mud walled house built over 30years ago. The Iron roof was also old and tattered and I had desired to build one but couldn't afford."

"Had I not received the money I would not be having a decent house. The previous house I had was leaking in the roof and the walls too had holes all over. When I received the first transfer I spent it on the building materials which I used to construct a new house. Through the first transfer I was able to construct a better house that does not leak."