"Receiving this money means that I will spend it for buying land and oxen. I separate with my spouse and thereafter returned home. My parents gave me one small garden which has been deplited due to constants usage hence low production. I will be ploughing this land with oxen to realise enough produce for maintaining my family member's needs. This produce I can also be consumed as food by my family members."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is paying school fees for my children. My children are in higher levels of learning which also requires high amounts of money. I am a police officer but my salary is always not enough to take care of the need. I try to do cultivation and actually sell off part of the harvest in order to raise money but still money is not enough considering the fact that other household needs have to be taken care of as well. "

"Receiving this money means that I will be able to buy oxen for ploughing. My oxen were sold for Educating the children, so currently I do not have any oxen to facilitate ploughing. This has resulted in to low crop produce hence poor economic base. The oxen once bought will help my house to regnite crop farming hence increase in crop production. The produce I will be selling some for educating my other young children."

"It was around 4 am when I received a message notification on my phone. When I read its content, I became so happy upon seeing that GiveDirectly had finally honored their promise. When they informed us during the enrollment of the good news, I never believed it as I thought that maybe they would not fulfill it but receiving this money made me believe in them."

"Having my own dairy cow and the goats has made my life to be very different. I am always ambitious and happy. The hope that I will soon start getting milk from my livestock makes me happy. My children will be healthier and also I will earn more by selling remaining liters to the local markets. Initially, it was hard for me to take milk since it was costly and very rare to get since there were few people owning dairy cows in my village. I plan to sell offsprings of the goats since they reproduce faster. This will help me to pay school fees for my children who had dropped out of school due to a huge school fee balance. To add to that, the money that I will be getting from the sale of milk will boost my standards of living. This will be my additional income making me wealthier. From that point, I believe my life will now be the same again."

"It was still very early in the morning when I received a message notification on my phone. Since I was awake at that time, I decided to read it and know who would have sent me a message at that time. I became so happy after realizing that GiveDirectly had sent us the promised money. I woke up my spouse and informed him of the good news that had just come in."

"I expect my life will be much better in the next six months because, with the extension of the shop, I will be generating more income and so will no longer strain much working on the farm because my income sources will also increase. Already, With the additional income, I plan to enroll one of the children in college come next year as she will be completing her O-level. Generally, the wellbeing of my entire household will improve and that is my joy"

"In the next six months, I am planning to purchase materials for raising tea seedlings with part of my transfers. This would enable me to manage the seedlings in the most appropriate way hence guaranteeing me the best quality tea plantations comes next year. I will then transplant the seedlings on a piece of land which I have already set aside for it. To me, this will be a long term investment in that when it matures it would earn me income through the sale of fresh green leaves every month."

"In the next six months, I believe that I will have saved enough money through all my income-generating activities. I intend to save a lot so that I don't get stuck when it comes to paying school fees for my children. I don't have a stable job therefore saving will help me a lot in supporting my children through their education."

"My life is currently different from how it was in that, I am able to offset some bills like paying rent and electricity bills with ease. Before then, we used to sleep hungry a lot as compared to nowadays where I do not only depend on selling water using a cart."