"Receiving this money to me means being given an opportunity to improve my household standard,the most thing i would love to improve on firstly is shelter,as you can see i live in a very pathetic house and i want to build a new house possibly with my first transfer."

"Receiving this money really means so much to me i feel like I'm really poor thats why i have been given this opportunity to benefit from this programme,this is a big thing for me and when i look at the amount I'm receiving i always think of my pathetic house and I would really love to build another one a good shelter is all that matters to me right now."

"I will have a well finished house which i could not have managed to do on my own. I will have a house with iron sheets."

"I now have food and i am now eating three times a day. This was something that was impossible because i did not harvest enough maize to afford such meals."

"When i recieved the money, i was quite happy and greatful."

"I have had struggles in raising school fees for my children as I am a single mother and I don't have any stable source of finance"

"Falling sick now and then is the biggest hardship i have faced in my life because when iam sick i do not do casual labour that brings money to buy food for my family."

"At my age receiving such an amount of is very unbelievable. My husband and i are old people and we had never imagined of receiving such an amount of money. We are very grateful to Givedirectly. We are dying to own a sofa in our house. We feel embarrassed when we receive visitors and they have to sit on the floor."

"After I received my cash transfer from Give Directly I managed to buy 6 bags of cement at K7500 each, 1 goat at 24,000kwacha , 1 mattress at K42,000 and 1 blanket at K21,000. This was so as the house I used to live in was not in a good condition and with the cement I bought have managed to improve it's condition and am very thankful for being in this programme."

"I was very thankful. I felt blessed to be included in this program. So many programs come and go without being included. This one is different, and i am thankful."