"It was in the morning when I had just woke up when I received my money. At that moment, I became so happy since I knew that this money would help me accomplish my dream of starting a saloon."

"It was in the morning as I was preparing breakfast for my family when my daughter came in and informed me that I had received some money from GiveDirectly. At that time I started singinng happily thanking God for His blessings. This money gave me hope that my child would be able to sit for her examinations."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now own five sheep unlike before. Since their gestation period is shorter, they will increase in number within a shorter period of time. Whenever I have an emergency, I can easily sort it out because they can be sold easily at any time since it is not costly like a cow and their market is always readily available."

"In the next six months, I intend to increase poultry farming activity and hire more land to grow my vegetables and tomatoes. This will increase my profits which will enable me to buy more livestock for rearing. This is some kind of investment which means I have future financial stability."

"In the next six months, I will have begun a business which will earn me some income to help me contribute to merry-go-round contribution. It is from here where I will buy iron sheets which will be used in building my new house. I will have peace of mind living in my own house as compared to currently where I am living in father-in-law's homestead."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am now happy. I have been able to enroll in a college where I am pursuing a hairdressing course. I believe that after I am through with my studies, I will have perfected the art of hairdressing and I will open my saloon. From this, I will be able to get money for my daily upkeep."

"I believe through education I will be a greater person in my society, hence in the next six months, I shall have saved enough money to enroll in college and pursue my goal of furthering my education."

"When I received my transfers, I decided to use half of the amount to add the stock to my business of selling second-hand clothes. It was during the December holiday when most people buy new clothes and by adding new stock, my sales volume would increase. There is a time I had been arrested and my friends bailed me out. When I received this money, I decided to show them an appreciation for what they once did to me by sending them some amount. For a long time, I have been sleeping on the floor since I did not have a bed. I would at a time stay awake the whole night when it is too cold and I always feared to be sick due to pneumonia. This made me use the remaining amount to buy a bed so that I can reduce the risk of becoming sick."

"Being homeless for a period of two years was by far the biggest hardship that I have faced in my life.After my house collapsed due to heavy rainfall, I was forced to live with my mother in law in her one room house which was too small to fit all of us comfortably. Our privacy and freedom to interact and move around was greatly affected,I could not even invest in buying some of the household items that I desired to own because we lacked room for storage.To make it worse, anytime my husband used to return to the village from town,we were forced to go seek for accommodation elsewhere and this was very embarrassing for us."

"Receiving this money means that I will be able to educate my two elderly children up to college level.Once they are done,I believe that they will be in a better position to get better jobs to sustain themselves and also help in educating the rest of their siblings who are still in primary level. In order to achieve this,I plan to spend my transfer in reviving my charcoal selling business so that the income generated can provide me with sufficient funds to educate them."