"GiveDirectly did well for coming with the unconditional cash program in the village. Through the aid, there is a lot of development in our society since we spend the transfer wisely."

"In my opinion, GiveDirectly did well in enrolling every eligible households in the village. In addition, the cash transfer was non refundable something that has never happened in the past. In my opinion, everything went well during the enrollment processes and even follow-up stages."

"The biggest hardship I've been facing has been not having enough food in my household. It makes me sad when my kids go hungry and I can't do anything about it."

"Receiving this money will be means to end most of my financial problems. I need to buy iron sheets and roof my house. I need to buy blankets for my family and have enough food for every day consumption and not depend on piece work to put food on my table"

"My biggest hardship have always been not having enough food for my children. This has promote me and my husband to be working long hours in other people's maize field and ignoring ours."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is lack of education. When I was a young boy, I always wanted to excel in my education but I could not due to distance from my village to school. For me to reach at school in time, I was suppose to start off at 5am and to walk few kilometers, to reach at school at 7am or 7:30. Since I was young, my mother could not permit me to go to school alone. She tried her best to mobilise other kids at the village but she could found that most of the parents their had no interest of sending their children at school. She wanted to move to live at the near by village but she could not because that time, she was taking care of her sick mother who later died. Due to disappointments she stopped me from going to school. So the only thing that I would do was helping her with house chores until I grew up. Had it been schools were near, I would have worked hard to reach Form 4 and I to fulfill my dreams of becaming a doctor."

"Hunger has been a challenge. My harvest is not enough to carry me throughout the year. Our sleeping place is also not comfortable because our beddings are torn."

"I am so grateful for considering me in this program. As you can see, the roof of my house got carried away because of wind. I have been looking forward to have money so that I can renovate my house. I will also use the money to buy fertilizer, cooking utensils and beddings."

"My life is different now in that I am self-employed because I bought a Motorbike with my transfer which I believe will be a reliable source of income, I also started a goat rearing business which I am hopeful that I will get good returns in future. I am a graduate of the national youth service but unemployed, I believe that with this support my living standards will improve. I am so grateful for the support."

"The biggest difference is that I now own my motorcycle meaning that I have a reliable source of income unlike before where I had to divide my profit by paying back the cost of renting a bike daily, a time I would be left with little or worse nothing because of the cost of fuel that had risen. I am so grateful that The organisation has changed my life for a better one."