"The moment I received my money, I was over whelmed my joy because I knew I would buy a new mattress for my self and pay my children's fees."

"I do not have a house back in the rural home and this has restricted my visits home because I feel ashamed. People know that I have a stable job in the city and they expect me to not only build a house but do other several developments that a working class person is expected to do. Since I also don't like bothering my in-laws by asking them to accommodate me I end up staying in the city. I miss home but I know with the help from GiveDirectly I will be able to build a house and I will never be experiencing the restriction I am going through at the moment."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have leased a farm and planted maize and beans. I will use the money I will get from our merry go round group to achieve this. This will lead to increased farm production hence my family will have enough food to last till the next harvesting season."

"I have bough most of the required materials to construct an iron roofed house. When this house is complete, I am going to be relieved from the burden of renovating my hut annually. Previously, I didn't have enough money to buy materials since the money I got from agricultural produce I used for paying my school fees."

"Being a single mother,it is always a struggle raise school fees for my children.I have two children in Secondary school and one in the University.I have had to sell all the livestock I had to pay for their education and currently I do not have any to provide milk both for consumption and sale.Receiving this money means that I will be able to buy two dairy cows that will provide a source of income for my family"

"Receiving this money means I will be able to build a better house.The house that I currently live in is very old and during rainy seasons water flows in hence the wooden poles that support it have become weak.I have always been afraid that one day the house will collapse on me.With this money I will buy building materials and begin building a new house in a better site on my farm."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months since I will have started the tree plantation project. This is a future investment for my family. I like this idea because the kind of species I grew to take time to grow but grows back again even after they have been cut. This will be my small contribution to the conservation of the environment and also earn a living by selling them. This will help me live peacefully knowing my grand children's' future is covered."

"I am a farmer who earns a living through agriculture but I have been having a challenge with agricultural equipments like the ox-plough. I have been hiring these servivices and attimes using hand hoes which is abit slow. So, when I receive this money, I am going to buy 2 heathy and high quality bulls and an ox-plough to help in agriculture. This is going to save me from spending on hiring and the use of hand hence raising my agricultural outputs and yields."

"When I receive this money, I will build an ironsheets house for myself and grandchildren because currently the one we are living in is so small to comfortably accommodate us. I will also use part of the money for agriculture. In this I will rent agricultural land because I have limited land for agriculture, I will also buy inputs like seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and labour. I thought about commercialized agriculture sometime back but I just didn't have the financial capacity. So with the GD transfers, it is an opportunity to change life."

"The biggest hardship I'm facing currently is sickness. Two of my children are sickly and they have missed school for sometime. I don't have money to take them for treatment. "