"I felt so happy the moment I received money from GiveDirectly. I read the message at around 6:45 am that day and I could not keep my cool. I called the other memebers of my village to find out if they had received the money as well and they were equally happy to report to me that they had received their portion. I later on in the day withdrew my money as I settled down on how I was going to put the money into the best use."

"My life has changed as compared to how it was before. This is because I am now able to purchase new clothes for my family, we have never lacked what to eat as we did before the transfers were sent, I have managed to finance the construction of our family house and with the balance that remained, I revived my donut business which I hope will be a source of revenue to our household."

"My life is now so different because I managed to clear school fees for my sons. This has been my greatest worry and problem because I did not get a chance to go to school and My wish was to see my children getting a good education. It is now my pleasure that they are all in school and they are studying without any disturbances. I am so assured that their future shall be bright and their coming generation. Had it not Givedirectly coming to my village, I would not have cleared their fees anytime soon. I am so thankful to GiveDirectly."

"My ambition has been to build a spacious house but due to financial constraints, this dream has never come true. This has forced me to live in a structure that is leaking and the walls are incomplete. It has been a challenge to me during the rainy season and I am always seeking shelter from my grandchild's house and this has lowered my dignity. I am planning to spend $400 to build a good house. I will use the remaining amount to take my grandchild to mechanical college whom I will depend on."

"My biggest hardship in life is the lack of a good source of income. This has really been a challenge to me because I depend on charcoal burning as my job, a work that is tedious and it earns me very little say, in a week $60.This is not enough to cater for my daily basic needs."

"It is very difficult to engage in an income generating activity because there is no start up capital. This has been a challenge for a long period of time and I relied on crop farming which is unpredictable because some times the yields are poor due to drought or floods. '"

"My biggest hardship is diffiulty in cultivating crops on time. This is due to the lack of oxen for ploughing since oxen are available for hire late in the season."

"Receiving this money means my children will receive quality education. It has been a problem paying school fees for my children which affected their school attendance. I will sleep in a better house as well because, so will be abel to construct a better iron roofed house."

"Having my own dairy cows and goats has made my life to be so different in various ways. First I will be getting milk for free which will be for my family consumption, this will make them be healthier unlike before whereby they were malnutrition because they could not get enough proteins. Apart from that the remaining liters I will be supplying to my neighbors and the local markets and I believe this will improve my living standard. Before the coming of GiveDirectly, In used to buy milk from my neighbors which were costly and sometimes I could not afford it. With the goats, I will start a business of selling the offsprings once they mature and through that I will no longer struggle like before in paying school fees for my children. If it were not for GD coming to my life I would not have achieved all this."

"Before the transfers, I did not have any kind of livestock in my compound neither did I own any. I would have loved to have some but I could not. I just used to admire my neighbours' livestock. This is why I decided to buy at least two goats to start with as I work on getting more livestock. When these reproduce, I will have a number and use them to exchange for a cow and I will have fulfilled my dream. Without the transfers, I would not have managed to have my own livestock by now."