"The biggest difference in my daily life is that my family now lives happily. This is because they now get some milk for their consumption courtesy of GiveDirectly unlike before. I would only afford to buy milk for use in making tea alone previously and my children would at times wish to drink milk but it was never possible. I am now glad since I believe that their health will improve since apart from taking milk, I will be able to provide them with a balanced diet."

"The biggest hardship I face is lack of money for educating my children. My children are in university and secondary but because of no income genreatin g activity , most of them get disturbance at shool. They are sent home and this is affecting their academic performance."

"The biggest hardship I face is lack of money for educating my children. My spouse is jobless and it's me who struggles in all corners but this has not been easy. My children delay reporting to school and others have dropped out. This is putting thier future lives in a mess."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have bought a dairy cow. I used to buy milk from my neighbors and it was so costly for me. I do casual jobs in the village and the small amount of money that I get was not enough to enable me to buy a dairly cow. I also have a small retail shop that I operate the center and the income from this business would only gather for school fees for my daughter who is in secondary school. I am so happy for the support because I no longer buy milk and this has reduced the cost that I was incurring on a daily basis. My family has enough milk and we no longer miss breakfast like sometimes before. I sell the surplus milk to ean an income to buy other additional needs for my household. I am so happy because GiveDirectly has changed our standard of living."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is that I am very old and I can not work. I am now week. I try to do some cultivation but because of my age, I can not plant much. This has always caused food shortage in my household."

"The biggest hardship I face in my life is lack of a spacious house. I have a small iron roofed house with a low roof and small rooms which can not accommodate me and my household members. We squeeze ourselves in a small house with no privacy because of its small size. "

"The biggest hardship I have continued to face is raising school fees for my children.Being a single parent of five and the sole breadwinner,all the weight of ensuring that my family feeds,is clothed and educated is all on me.This is often difficult bearing in mind that I do not have formal employment where am guaranteed an income hence I fully depend on my maize farm to produce enough to eat as well as sell.This has not been the case for some years now where we have faced prolonged dry seasons and crop diseases that have hindered good harvests."

"In the next six months, I expect my life to change in that I shall have registered with an organization that gives farmers inputs on credit (One Acre Fund). By being part of this organization I will enjoy the services of being given fertilizers and hybrid seeds to be paid back at a later date. This will be a great step towards improving crop production that will enable me to have enough food for the family and even practice agribusiness."

"I expect my life is to change in that I will be having a business to help me boost my income. The business will be my main source of income which will help me handle my issues well and in time. I would not want to depend on others after this life-changing opportunity."

"Receiving this money means I will complete building a semi permanent house for my children to sleep in. Currently, my children stay with their Fran mother due to poor accomodation. I will then connect power to my house in order to provide light at night. The light will help my children revise at night in order to attain good grades at school. They are forced to forego revising at night due to lack of light to enable them read."