"The biggest hardship I have faced in life has been financial constraints. I retired a few years a go and my wife is a stay at home mother. We now depend on subsistence farming and motorcycle business. I only earn about $40 per day from the motorcycle and that is not enough to Carter for our basic needs such as buying a water tank or paying school fees."

"My dream is to provide quality education to my children. Our family income amount to about $140 per month, which is not enough to pay school fees each school term. A number of times my children get sent to school and they are always demoralized when they miss classes. Sometimes I work on weekends just to earn an extra income and ensure they get quality education. I will use $400 to pay their school fees for a whole year, $100 for clothes and my second transfer of about $500 will aid in finishing our house and furniture."

"I never went to school since my parents could not afford to pay school fees for me and my siblings and I believe that education would have given me many options in life. The biggest hardship has therefore been having to live with minimal options to earn income."

"Job security. I do not have a job now and the casual labor that I offer is tedious because I hurt my leg and this restricts my movement. I am in the process of searching for less tedious and secure jobs that can help me fend for my family."

"It means a lot. I have a mini shop in my village and would love to use $100 of the first transfer to add more items to it and use the remaining to add a cow since I have a large family and the cow that I have does not produce enough milk for us. I will also use $100 to stock enough maize for my family."

"I spent $200 of the transfer to make a partial payment of the dowry that my husband owes my parent. This is a necessity with our tradition for any married man to fulfill. I also purchased enough clothes for I and my child and acquired a new mattress for $60, the one I had worn out and not comfortable to use. The remaining amount assisted me in purchasing adequate food for the family."

"I spent $400 of my second transfer to boost my husband's small business of buying and selling livestock. We are now able to meet our family's needs without struggling much. In addition, I was able to improve my goats rearing job by purchasing 3 more goats. With the remaining amount, I bought enough food for the family."

"Choosing our village out of the many by GiveDirectly gave everyone in our village nothing but hope. I can't tell how this was done but I have been thankful for the great work that has been happening in the neighborhood. We were given the freedom to spend the money on anything we saw fit since everyone's needs always vary. From the first point of interaction in the initial meeting with the officers to the last transfer I received, I have never seen anything wrong with the whole project, and how it was carried out. All gratitude goes to the officers who were so friendly and always ready to help especially to the elderly who would have been way vulnerable to the theft."

"The biggest difference in my daily life after receiving the transfer is the great transformation in my personal life. I had been working on casual work for such a long time but the transfer I received has proven to be changing the way things were. I am currently working on my own piece of farm, weeding the beans I planted a month ago. The instant switch from the casual labor I used to wake up to every morning to the current subsistence farming on my own farm is an amazing difference in my life. I am grateful for this opportunity to finally embark on developing my own unlike in the past when I was fully dependent on casual labor."

"In my opinion, all that GiveDirecvtly did in our village was great. After the meeting that was held to enlighten us on the program's knowledge, enrollment was done fairly. Everyone was satisfied with the process as no one was left out at all. On receiving it, we were not limited in expenses as we were given the freedom to choose how best we can use the money for our own good. Currently, there is much improvement in every household as others invested in livestock and construction, while others used in paying school fees for their kids."