""I plan to buy a lot of land and built a new home for my family.""

"I spent my recent transfer to furnish my house and feed my family."

"I felt very happy and excited when I received the money. I have been planning to build a house but no finance to start my building project, this money helped me a lot to buy building materials."

""The lack of a permanent source of income is the greatest challenge I am currently facing. A permanent source of income is a major challenge because I am a farmer and the income generated from farming is so small to take care of my family. Some times the land becomes so unproductive that I have to engage into palm harvesting just to sustain the family but it doesn't help"."

"Over the years the I have been faced with so many challenges and some of hardest is housing. My is gradually breaking down on me and as such repairing my house is the most important thing right now, follow by making my business bigger."

"I have my first child at an early age, l am worried about how to sustain her and educate her because I am now unable to go back to school. I will feel very bad if I can not educate this girl because she is my future. Therefore, my main challenge now is my inability to start a business because of finance."

"Since I moved in this town in 2013, I have been living in my uncle's house because I don't have the financial means to rent or build a place for my family and me. It is so embarrassing to live in another man's house with your family as a grown up man. When I receive any grant from Give Directly, I will use portion of the money to build a house for my family and use the remaining balance to send my children to school. Right now my children are at risk of being thrown out of school because I have not paid their tuition yet"."

"Through the transfer that I received, I was able to pay my children's school fees. I was also able to buy zinc for my house roof. Since I received my transfer, there has been a lot of changes in my daily life. I feel relieved from school fees payment and no more worry about the rainy season because my house is now going to be covered with zinc. Thank God for GiveDirectly. I really do appreciate GiveDirectly coming to this community."

"The biggest difference in my daily life since I started recieving payments from GiveDirectly is that, with the transfer, I was able to pay my son's balance school fees. The school's administration no longer put my son out for balance fees. As seen this my house is in deplorable condition and due to my age I am unable now to always travel longer distance to cut thatch to replace the old ones. Now with the zinc, I will not have to cut thatch everytime for my house. I am so so happy for this one time life changing opportunity and I am going to make a better use of it for my household."

"I haven't cash out my money yet because, I am waiting for the rest of my cash transfer to buy one lot of land."