"The biggest difference in daily life is that, we are now happy in our family. Happiness came in because I was able to build a permanent house and treated of my spouse who had a problem in the uterus with GiveDirectly money. We did not have enough money to take care of treatment before."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that, with the degree of poverty that had stricken my family, it had given ulcers due to a lot of worry over how to acquire basic needs for life."

"The biggest hardship in my life is lack of enough support for sustaining my family welfare especially feeding since am a widowed mother. "

"Receiving this money is a means of helping me to get capital for starting up a business of selling second hand clothes to generate more household income."

"The biggest hardship which I face in my life is frequent sickness of my children caused by mosquitoes since we don't have mosquitoes nets."

"The biggest hardship I have faced is lack of enough money to buy even food."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is lack of money to meet our family basic needs like school fees and medical care."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is the problem of school fees. We 4 school going children and our income is insufficient to provide quality education for all the children."

"The moment I received my first cash transfer, I felt so happy because I had produced out of wedlock and my children did not have any land that belonged to them. Receiving this money meant that my major problem of a plot had been solved."

"My life is different than it would have been if i never recieved the transfer in that I also have money in my possession that i had never thought of having. It gives me a sence of peace and belonging."