"My life is now different because the transfers have enabled me built a modern timber walled house within the shortest time possible. I had desired to built a modern for long but couldn't because the school fees burden was quite demanding. With this house, my wife's workload of smearing a muddy wall in order to improve it's appearance is no more because we are ageing."

"I have been lacking farm inputs such as fertilizer. This slows farm production."

"The money will be helpful. I will but livestocks. My house is also small and i intend to build a big one. I will also start a business."

"Receiving this money really means alot to me apparently we are legit farmers so the first thing i will do with the transfer is to buy farm inputs such as fertiliser,seeds etc i will also be able to pay for my siblings education since i solely take care of them"

"My biggest hardship in my life is lack of money to support the family. As someone who does not have a husband, life has always been hard financially."

"Had I not received the money I would not be having a decent house. The previous house I had was leaking in the roof and the walls too had holes all over. When I received the first transfer I spent it on the building materials which I used to construct a new house. Through the first transfer I was able to construct a better house that does not leak."

"I feel so proud and relieved to have bought goats that are investment for my children's future school fee. Had I not received the transfers, I would not have bought any of them. Instead, I would still be struggling to meet the most basic needs like food and shelter. I do not have a reliable income and meeting the basic needs was a real challenge let alone investing for my children's future school fee."

"Had I not received the transfers my children would have dropped out of school. They owed the school such a huge balance and had GiveDirectly not intervened they would be staying back at home. I could barely afford a whole day's meal for my family so raising the fee balance would not have been easy."

"My life is currently different from the way it would have been had I not received the money because of the great step I have made. I now have an ox which will not only earn me income from ploughing people's farms but I will not also spend on ploughing labour. I have so saved enough money for starting up a business which I would not have saved if I did not receive the transfer. I currently do not have any source of income and raising the money would have been a great challenge."

"Give directly warned us about fraudsters and they gave us flyers that were written all the amount of money agents were going to deduct it was very easy for us to know hpw much money we will receive"