"Being able to buy a sewing machine for my husband is the biggest difference in my daily life. This is because he now does his own business and does not need to depend on other people to determine his income. He is now a happy man. Prior to getting this money, my husband had to go work for some other people that later stressed him and he would come home stressed. From the time he got his own machine, I have not seen him stressed."

"For a long time I have been struggling to pay my house rent because my income has always been meager hence with the varies family's needs I have always felt overwhelmed. Over the years ,I have been thing on the possible ways to relieved some of these burdens . Therefore, with the financial assistance from GiveDirectly I have come up with a new goal basically is to save and buy a piece of land and build my family home that would enable me evade the stress that come up with paying rent. At the moment I have already started acting on it by adopting the skill of saving on a monthly basis."

"I have been having the fish mongering business for two years now. Since I started it with a small capital, it has not been doing very well as I would want to. It has also been my main source of income which is another reason why I could not develop it to the extent I would have loved. This is because I used to take resources from the business to meet my personal and family needs and could not input more. When I received my first transfer, I used part of it to boost the business by adding more stock to the business. It is now doing well and I thank God for the transfers from GD. It has really eased my financial burden through the profits."

"I was around 5 am after waking up when I realized that GiveDirectly had made me rich that morning. I was immediately filled with happiness and I whispered a prayer to thank God for leading to GD to our village. I knew that I would be able to achieve a lot of things using this money."

"The biggest challenge I face today is being broke every now and again which forces me to take soft loans from people within the village, especially close family members. With the flow of cash from my tree selling project, I think I will become financially independent and free from debts like it has always been in the past."

"Life will change once I start getting a steady flow of income because for one I will not have to rely on my husband for financial assistance every now and then like I have been doing in the past. The good thing about this job is that I will be able to offer financial support to my husband which of course will be a positive gain for the family."

"I know that my life will change because I will have constructed a new house for my family so we will no longer have to squeeze in this small structure which can barely accommodate us. My kids will also have a spacious room of their own. Currently, my kids are forced to sleep in my mothers' house reason being that the house we have cannot accommodate us."

"In the next six months, I believe I would have bought a dairy cow and this would be the greatest achievement of my own. I believe that when I got more cows, I will have more milk for sale and this would earn us more income for supporting our children in school."

"For a long time I have been planning to build a new house but it has not been possible due to other priorities such as paying school fees.With Give Directly coming in, I can now build a house as well as pay school fees for my children.My current house is very small(one room)and the roof is rusty.It leaks during the rainy season.The house will cost me 300 USD while almost the same amount will go into school fees.I have two children in secondary school and paying school fees has been a challenge.I depend on casual jobs which don't earn me enough. "

"In the next six months, I would save a part of my next transfer after spending on food so that I would spend on buying a dairy goat. Goat milk is very nutritious and due to my old age, I believe when I got to drunk goat milk it will still give me more energy to live longer."