"So many NGOs are using corrupt criteria way to select people in the community while GD their criteria of choosing people is free and fair."

"Before I got the transfers my children were being sent back home so often due to lack of school fees and I was worried whether they would eventually complete schooling; but since I got the transfers they are consistently going to school and am very much relieved about this."

"My compound and my children are now smart and am going through a training that will help me fro the rest of my life."

"Other Ngos like Aphia Nyanza are more corrupt, less transparent and less direct than GD. Other Ngos help community members through other people in the community while GD is direct as its name."

"Sometimes other NGOs do not deliver whatever they stated they would deliver to community members due to corruption even in the way they select those who are to benefit from their program, while GD deals directly with individuals and they send the transfers as they had stated."

"We never see anything good out of other NGOs because most of it is taken by those connecting us to the top office but GiveDirectly is directly connected to the beneficiary."

"Other Ngos concentrate on a single wavelength of development e.g Aphia Nyanza concentrate on health while GD takes a multidimensional perspectives cutting across social, economic and political wavelength of development."

"The biggest different in my life is that I can now watch news all over the country, I no longer light with paraffin but a solar lamp. My sugarcane farm will also give income which will improve our living standards."

"It's been six years being rained living in a seriously leaking house but am no longer worried when it's about to rain as it used to be in the past."

"When I get my upcoming lumpsum payment, I will plaster my main house with sand and cement and fix on it steel windows and doors."