"The moment I saw the notification about my transfer, I felt so happy that I would then take back my children to school on time."

"I spent part of my transfer to pay school fees and used part of it to buy food for the family while the remaining amount was used to buy iron sheets for completing a house that had delayed in construction due to lack of enough money. For the first time we were able to pay school fees for our four children and be sure that for the entire term they were not going to be sent home for lack of school fees. Furthermore, a house that was left incomplete for months then was finally going to be put to completion after receiving the moeny from GiveDirectly. It was just the moment we had been waiting for to us as a family."

"I depended on casual jobs for income before I was enrolled in the program. These jobs were not easy to come by and I had a tough time providing for myself through the little income I earned. When I started receiving the transfers, I got the courage to purchase a motorcycle on credit for business because I know that the transfers would enable me to pay for the required instalments. Through the motorcycle business, I am now comfortably able to take care of needs without much struggle."

"My new goal for the transfers is to boost my cosmetic business by adding more stock to the business. Apart from adding more stock, I also plan to upgrade the business to a salon business where we will be offering hairdressing services. This will increase my profits and make the business more stable."

"My life will be different in the next six months in that I will be having money to pay for my fees. This has been my biggest worry because, in the past, I have considered dropping out of school since we did not have money to pay. With GD transfers, I know I will be having money on a monthly basis which I will use in paying my school fees arrears. I know I will never be sent home again as it was the case. I plan to pay my fees on a monthly basis as I receive my transfers."

"I spent my transfer on boosting my shoe and cloth businesses by adding more stock to the business. My desire is to have a stable business which will sustain my needs even in the future. The rest of the transfer I used on buying household items such as food for my family. The stock of food we had in the house had reduced and it was my desire to use the transfers on food than business resources for food. I am glad I got the money at the right time."

"In the next six months, I know I will never be struggling financially as it was the case before the transfers. My plan is to always save part of my monthly transfers so that I don't have to go borrowing from friends whenever I have any financial needs. That has been the case and I have been having very unnecessary debts which I plan to avoid so that I may develop financially and be independent."

"If I could not have received money from give directly I could not have managed to pay dowry to my spouse and sure she could still be at her biological home together with my children. I could not have managed to invest in sugarcane farming as I did."

"The biggest difference in my life is that I now have a stable reliable source of Income. I managed to buy a dairy cow and fortunately it has started producing milk. Of which l sell some milk in our local market and some for my family consumption. Since the milk has started getting me some income, my family has never gone to bed hungry. We are able to at least meet our daily needs."

"The biggest difference in my life is that l managed to plant sugarcane in two hectares of land that I have never done in my life. I am very sure once I started harvesting them, my life will definitely change because I am sure I will get enough money out of it and spend the money to catter for my family needs. I am now hopefull that this my starting point of doing large scale farming in sugarcane and I will not stop at this point since l would want to put up my own house from this and also do other investments such as livestock keeping."