"The biggest hardship I face is not having enough food to eat with my family. My husband is a fisherman and it's not easy for him to make enough to buy food everyday."

"The biggest hardship I face is the losses I make in my business. I sell tomatoes and sometimes they rot before I find customers that's when I make the losses. As a result my business has not been growing."

"I have spent my transfer from GD start building my house. I am building a house because I have no house. I have six children but we all sleep in a kitchen. The reason I have not been able to build a house is because I have no source of money. I have no job. I have also used the money to buy a mattress so that I have a more comfortable place to sleep on and not on a mat . And lastly I have used my money to buy bags of maize so that my family has enough food to eat."

"I felt very happy when I received my money from GD. I was very happy because I knew that with the money I was going to be able to buy a mattress meaning that I would have a better place to sleep on since I used to sleep on a mat because I had no money to buy a mattress. The money is also helping me build a bigger house of three bedrooms so that my family is more comfortable and have more space in the house. Receiving this more made me so happy ."

"This recipient said he is already in his old age, if he received this cash, he will buy cement and plaster his house to make it look decent."

"In my opinion GiveDirectly does really well by giving people money without telling us how to handle the money. I can not judge on the things that GiveDirectly does not do well because I am just a person looking in from the outside what you are doing works well for me because I have never been helped like the way GiveDirectly is helping me. So to me I dont see anything that you could be doing to be better everything you do is fine."

"when I received my transfer I used it in building a decent house for my family, I always had a dream of living in an iron-roofed house but I never had enough finances due to my little income from the carpentry job, therefore I used 30,000 in buying building materials, I saved part of the remaining transfer so that it can cater for other expenses involved while doing the finishing touches, I am happy and grateful that I was able to accomplish my dream."

"Right now, we are not in our own house and we don't even have money to renovate the house we are in as it leaks most of the time."

"The moment I received the transfer I felt so happy. I remember it like yesterday. It was around 8am when I heard a ringtone message from my phone. I was doing my daily household chores. I didn't expected any messages from anyone. So I reluctantly check it thinking it was just messages from friends. I couldn't believe my eyes, it was message confirming that I have received money from GiveDirectly. I felt so overwhelmed, I immediately inform my spouse and he was so happy too. We knew we would be able to buy a dairy cow and cut the daily cost of buying milk. We planed everything and went to withdrew the money the same day. We are so grateful for the support."

"To me, GiveDirectly does everything well, I can't point out what it doesn't do well. GiveDirectly has helped me and my family so it does well by giving us money."