"Previously, I was used to living in the house that we had built in the early '90s. Truly speaking it was too old as one would take a glance at it, he or she would empathize with us. The roof was leaking and its foundation had already weak. The biggest difference in my daily life is the joy and peace that has been driven after building a modern three-bedroom house that has an extension. All my gratitude goes to GiveDirectly for the massive change it has brought in my life."

"I spent my second transfer on building a house. A descent iron-roofed house has many benefits. It is good to live in, descent when having visitors and good in harvesting rainwater for domestic use. For the first time in a long time, I hosted my friends from my village on the new year's day of the year 2020. We made merry and set out our targets to work on as a group of friends. I was comfortable hosting the meeting here because I had completed the house. I then build a restaurant in a nearby shopping center. It is generating a good income per day that goes a long way in our daily household expanditure."

"I expect to have a stable business that will give me a good income. The money I get from my business, I am planning to use part of to renovate our house, the roof is leaking because the iron sheets are too old and have holes when it rains we are rained on. This is my biggest dream once I fulfill it, I will be a happy person."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is the new household improvements that I have using the money that I received. I have managed to put up a house that is better than the thatched-roofed one. It was dilapidated. The one I build is made of iron sheets. I am so glad that my son too has a nice house. Having this means that he is going to be under my watch as he grows up. I am guaranteed my role in parenting him, unlike the time when he had to sleep with many others in a neighbor's house."

"I was previously sheltering in a very small house that was in a bad condition, its roof was dilapidated and whenever it rained, then I would be in trouble since it was leaking everywhere. Currently, I live in a spacious, decent and iron-roofed house unlike before GiveDirectly came. I feel this is the biggest difference that this money has brought into my life. Through this money, I managed to buy enough stock of building materials which include building poles, iron sheets and paid for the mason for his job. I could not have managed to build this house on my own had it not been this financial help."

"I really want to thank Give Directly because it gave me an opportunity to get access to a new iron-roofed house which I was longing to have but I could not because of financial constraints, thus this is the biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer. I have been saving in our merry go, round group until I managed to raise enough amount of money to enable me to put up a new house. I am now staying a happy life with fewer worries of being rained on once it rains."

"In the next four months, I plan to buy building materials such as iron sheets, nails and timber which I want to use in building a house. Currently, the one I have is grass thatched which is not in good condition. The roof is leaking and I am also tired of repairing the roof on a monthly basis. Grass too is hard to find nowadays. I would want to handle the issue once and for all by putting up an iron-roofed house. This will save me the resources I use on a monthly basis to repair the house."

"My new goal for the next four months is to aim higher and get to my goal of replacing my grassed thatched roof into an iron sheet one. This means I intend to be discipline with the finances I get from GiveDirectly through buying the required building materials on a monthly basis."

"I thank Give Directly I am now staying in an iron-roofed house, I am no longer rained on together with my family members hence this is the biggest difference in my daily life since I started receiving money from Give Directly. I used to live in a grass-thatched house that leaked a lot during the rainy season. I used to spend sleepless nights during these seasons because my bedding could get wet due to the leaking roof. Through the transfers, I was able to afford to buy building materials and managed to build a spacious iron-roofed house. Nowadays I sleep in peace without being distracted by the rains"

"I spent part of my first transfer on buying an ox. Initially, I used to own one, and it could not work own it's own, they had to be two. I used to hire the other ox from a friend and it was relatively expensive. I am now a happy farmer because it's now a complete pair. I will no longer strain whenever I want to prepare my farm. I later bought some iron sheets and timber to renovate my house. It has a leaking roof, which was giving me sleepless nights when it rains. I then cleared the huge school fees balances for my children, to avoid the disruptions. Sometimes they could stay home for weeks because of the huge fees arrears. The remaining amount of money I bought some new clothes for my children and enough foodstuffs."