"I expect my life to change for better in the next six months because I will be having more income from the milk sale. I will therefore be able to provide enough food and save some money for my daughter's education."

"I received the money while I was attending to one of my customers in my barbershop. I read the message that bore the good news so carefully just to make sure that It was genuine. On realizing that the money from GiveDirectly had come, I continued with my work but could not hide my joy from the clients I was very excited the whole day as I kept planning on how to change my life using the transfers."

"In the next six months I hope I will have cleared my child fee who will be finishing his secondary education. This will relieve me some the of burden and allow me to invest the money on buying a dairy cow."

"In the next six months, I expect a positive change in my life. I am anticipating to buy a calf which I shall add to the sheep I am currently keeping. With the increase in the number of my livestock, I shall feel happy and being respected in my village because livestock owners are highly regarded by my community members."

"I expect my life to change for the better because a I believe the income from my tailoring business will be sustaining my family needs. I also believe that I will be saving the monthly transfers to invest on another income generating project such as poultry farming."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is lack of money to take care of the needs of my household. "

"I used my most recent transfer to pay rent. I have been depending on the little income from casual jobs to pay rent. At times it was a challenge to pay rent since the casual jobs are not constant. I also used part of transfer to buy a sofa set since I did not have one and at times I feel ashamed to welcome my friends to my house."

"When I receive this money, I will build a house and buy some cows for diary and agriculture."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is lack of money to take care of my household needs."

"The biggest hardship I have faced is lack of enough resources to take care of the many children I have."