"My desire has been to construct a decent house for my family. After separating with my husband 5 years ago, I was forced to return to my maternal home since then and I have not been able to construct my own house due to inadequate financial resources. Currently, I am living with my children in the same room with my mother. Receiving this money means building my own house since I am planning to spend 200 dollars to build a one-roomed iron-roofed house for my family. I will also use the remaining amount to educate my firstborn who completed primary and is about to join secondary school next year."

"My life is currently different from how it was in that, I managed to start a business. I currently run my own saloon which I started with the first transfer. The income is way better than the low wages I used to get as an employee in one of the saloons in our village. The money I used to get wasn't enough to cater for all my needs. It was even difficult to make future plans with my salary. The nature of payment depended on clients whom one couldn't predict when they could come by."

"My life is different from how it was in that, I was able to achieve most of my needs. Today, I have hens, cows, and sheep. I have already started selling eggs and some are normally for family consumption. This could have been different if I could not have gotten the money in that, I would still be buying eggs."

"Through this financial support, I was in position to pay dowary to my in laws that has made me very happy because I have being staying with my wife for more than 3 years but I had failed to raise the needed dowary for my parents in law. "

"Before I received these transfers, from GiveDirectly, I had a challenge of ploughing my farm land I used to dig a small portion of land because used hand tools which gave me very little yields. Having received money from GiveDirectly, I was in position to acquire oxen that are helping me with ploughing. I can now plough a larger portion of land and I expecting increased yields for supporting my family. In addition, I bought a grinding mill which generates daily income that I save for my child's education and feeding."

"Before receiving these transfers, I didn't have a personal piece of land, I hired land to cultivate inorder to support my child being a single mother. However, after getting money from GiveDirectly I was able to get a piece of land that I am going to cultivate until my money is paid, I expect the harvest to help me support myself and child. Secondly, I had a very old small mattress and old bed sheets but I have acquired new mattress and bed sheets that have made me very happy because I am now having comfortable nigh sleep."

"The biggest hardship faced is inadequate money to to help me build an iron sheet roofed house and meet the cost of feeding, including hospital bills when the children go ill. "

"My life is different from how it was in that, my business has grown after boosting it with part of the first and the second transfer which I got from GiveDirectly. The future is also bright for my children's education. I no longer strain like before because my income has since increased. I also have a few dairy cows and I can decide to sell milk so as to get money or even the young ones later in order to settle their high school fees."

"My life has improved because I paid off the debt which was burdening me thus I have repossessed my farm land. I will cultivate next season because the person I owed has not yet harvested his crops. In addition, I can afford to sleep well on a better mattress as opposed when I slept on torn mattress and never had farm land."

"My life has changed because through these cash transfers, I was able to add capital to my local brew business and it is now booming. On a daily basis I can get over fifty customers and get a profit of sixty thousand shillings compared to previously when I could brew only twice a week because I could only satisfy a few customers. In addition, I have bought all building materials and I will start to build on Friday this week. I plan to use part of the profits from the local brew business to pay for the construction labour."