"Previously, I was stressed because I had no oxen for ploughing and my house was leaking. When I received the cash transfer, I embacked on rennovating the house and acquiring an ox. I look forward to hiring a piece of farm land so as to increase my food security at home."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is the relief I feel for having spent my money to build myself a permanent house. This is because the grass to yearly renovate my former grass thatched house has become very expensive and scarce. In addition to this, I am delighted to see and live to witness that there are organizations such as GiveDirectly that have surely shown a lot of transparency and fully fulfilled the promises they make to the community. Prior to GiveDirectly coming to my community, most organizations just came it to robe us of the little we had and left us in the more poor states."

"My life is different than it would have been if I never received the transfer in that I have a decent and spacious house. I used to live in a small grass-thatched house that was leaking from the inside and the same house could not host all of us comfortably. Its a taboo in our culture to sleep in our house with grown-up children and this was giving me stress because I could take them to my neighbor's house to spend a night there which was so risky. When I received the money from GiveDirectly I built two good and spacious houses that host all of us comfortably. My children are no longers expose to cold at night. I no longer fear to welcome visitors to my house because I have a place to host them."

"The moment I received my money, I really felt so happy. This was because I have never had or received this amount of money."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I would have started horticulture farming. This will enable us to have enough food and sell the surplus to earn an income to meet additional needs."

"I felt so happy the moment I received my money. This is because I had as well hoped to get this money after hearing that people were getting this kind of financial help."

"I am happy because at my advanced age, I do not have strenght to do casual labour for a living. I depend on my daughter who takes care of me single handedly. I am also happy that I constructed a permanent house with the cash transfer."

"I used to struggle through casual construction jobs before I started receiving the transfers. My father is a construction worker and he introduced all of my brothers and I into the job as a way of earning a living. The scrumble amongst the four of us for any available jobs was too much and only the aggressive ones benefited. I was never able to make enough money even for my needs through the jobs so I had to look for alternative casual jobs which were equally tough. Receiving the transfers allowed me to set up a clothes business where I now earn a decent amount each day without struggling too much. I am now able to support myself and my family through the business and the transfers."

"My life is different than it would have been if nevI er received the transfer in that I have built two new houses which were not possible before."

"My life is different than it would have been if I never received the transfer in that I could not have paid the school fees for my daughter on time. I depend on casual jobs in the village and the money I could get was so small and could not gather for all the basic needs."