"The biggest difference in my daily life is that the transfer has enabled me to pay for my children's school fees who are in high school. The arrears had accumulated to a point that I had to seek loans from my neighbours in order for them to stay in school. I am now at peace because of the financial assistance from GiveDirectly."

"The biggest difference is that I was once jobless and now at least earning income from the taxi business for through the transfer, I was able to acquire a motorbike to provide taxi services which is now a source of income to me."

"There has been a tremendous change in my life in that, I have paid my children's school fees without a struggle and I can afford a balance diet for my family. Previously, I didn't have the money to do all this which in turn led to worry and no peace of mind."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I shall be able to buy the necessary building materials with the savings from the transfers hence the construction of my own house will be underway."

"I expect my life to be good in terms of economic income, and management of the projects. I plan to buy dairy cow for milk. The demand for milk keeps on increasing and may like to take that opportunity to make money."

"In the next six months,I expect to lead a very soft life without financial stress. I plan also to start banana farming, and expect to have 300 plants, but since I cannot engage myself directly, I will employ other worker, but this requires resources."

"My life is better compared to how I was in the past. Before that, I was focusing on one economic source, that is casual jobs which is not enough for my family needs."

"Improved lifestyle, be respected in the villages, financially stable."

"Not having a stable job to generate sufficient income that will enable me to sustain the needs of my large family of ten is the biggest hardship that I face in life. I am a casual worker and the jobs that I get hardly fetch much to enable me educate, feed and even provide decent shelter for my children. Currently five of us are forced to squeeze in our small house when night falls as the other five seek shelter in their elder brother's house. Since I am not able to get enough,paying school fees for all my children has also proven to be an uphill task. Most of the time they are chased away from school due to fee arrears and this has forced them to really lag behind in their studies. Most of them have been forced to repeat classes even more than one's. This makes them to be the laughing stock of the school because they end up being overage in the classes that they are forced to repeat to cover all sessions.As a result,they end up being so demoralised to an extent that as we speak,two opted to drop out when they were faced with the possibility of repeating the same class again. This really hurts me as a father because to a larger extent, I feel like I am failing them as a parent in helping them achieve their goals in life."

"In the next six months, I shall be having a kitchen a spacious kitchen of which can be partly used as a bedroom for my children. I shall never be begging for sleeping spaces in the neighborhood who could later gossip."