"Completing the payment of a piece of land I had bought earlier on is the biggest difference in my daily life. This is because the landowner has been pushing me so much to complete the payment. I had been prioritizing to pay school fees for my children leaving the issue of land unattended to. It has been giving me a lot of stress but when I called the payment after the transfers, my life has become peaceful once again."

"I expect my life to change tremendously in the next six months. I am looking forward to practicing large scale agricultural farming that will see me have enough money at my disposal and which I can use to improve the standards of living for my family and I."

"We have been buying milk for home consumption which is costly for us since my husband's job is unstable. We solely depend on my husband to put food on the table and his job is to buy and sell livestock which is low at the moment. My ambition now is to buy a cow to supplement from what we get from my husband. "

"My life is different in that I now own a dairy cow and have new houses. I never thought we could build two houses anytime soon than we have done now. My husband's carpentry business had collapsed following the lack of enough money to keep it running and money to buy raw materials. When we got the transfers, we were able to join a merry go round and through the contributions, my husband has been able to buy a smoothing machine, timber and other carpentry materials that has since helped him revive the business. We now get support from him from his carpentry proceeds and this has raised the standards of living for the family."

"Having enough food to feed my family is the biggest difference in my daily life. For the past 5 years, we have not been able to harvest our maize plant. This is because it was affected by a certain disease and drought. Because of this, we have been forced to be doing a lot of casual jobs at least to get some money to buy food. But getting the transfer has gone a long way in helpng to feed my family."

"The GiveDirectly cash transfers enabled me to purchase house hold items like bed, mattress, utensils, clothes. I can now proudly change into nice clothes and go visiting my friends. The cash transfers also enabled me to pay off my debts. In addition to these, we purchased a motorcycle that has improved our transportation. At times, the motorcycle is used as a boda-boda which generates additional income. Before then, I used to travel long distances to access medical care due to lack of transport means. More so, I could not afford better medical services due to lack of money."

"The moment I received the transfer, I felt happy. I knelt down and prayed for those God has given the grace to give to the poor and I asked him to continue blessing them."

"My life is different in that I now have a new house that I never thought I will ever be able to build anytime sooner. We have also been able to have a dairy cow for the family. We had sold all the livestock we had for the family just so that we could be able to raise enough money to pay school fees for our children. We had gone to extent of borrowing a neighbors cow that could only get us hardly enough milk for household consumption. This often felt demeaning and I had always desired to have our own dairy cow. I am now a proud parent that I have been able to buy a dairy cow that is going to provide us with enough milk for consumption and the surplus for sale to meet other household needs. The livestock shall also help us meet other unforeseen financial challenges that could come our way unlike the neighbors which would be a criminal offense to sell at the event of any unforeseen financial emergencies."

"The moment I received my money, I became very happy and ululated as sign of joy . I thanked God because GiveDirectly had truly fulfilled their promise."

"My life is better now in that, I have a lot of joy because I can afford to buy food using this transfers. Furthermore, I have a lot of happiness seeing my house under construction because I never I imagined I could construct a permanent building on my own if it wasn't of GiveDirectly's cash transfers."