"Receiving this money means building iron roofed house and being able to marry.the woman of my dream."

"My ambition in life is to be a national team player since I love football so much. This will improve my life as I will have some income and also have a stable life that I can also support other needy children and mentor them to join football. "

"I prioritize like that because currently am doing catering course and I have started but in small quantities because I don't have enough equipments for baking so with this transfer I will buy all necessary equipment so that I can bake more and increase my clientele and also have more stable income to sustain myself children. Secondly, I will pay school fees for my children as currently with my hairdressing business sometimes I don't get enough for school fees so this money will help me much and lastly, I will use part of this transfer to buy some household items and also do shopping for the family."

"I would love to be a cosmestologist/ beautician. I have passion in hairdressing and it's my joy to make ladies look smart, feel beautiful and confident about themselves and know that its all my effort. By achieving this dream, I will be able to change the mentality of people in my community about hairdressing job. To help them realise that, it is a worthy course and they shouldn't look down upon the job for one can make a living out of it and be successful."

"When i receive this money, i will buy cows that will help in Agriculture and the balance i will built a house."

"Receiving this money means i will build a permanent house for my children because am really doing badly in terms of shelter."

"After the enrollment process, people from other villages were discouraging us that GiveDirectly will not honor their promise of sending us a lump sum amount of money at once and that we should not acceapt to be enrolled but I did not believe them. When I received my transfers, I was overwhelmed with happiness since I knew that those people who had been discouraging us from taking part in the program had been shamed."

"The first biggest difference in my life is that we now eat a well balanced diet compared to the past when our feeding was very poor. We all look happy and healthy. Secondly, I was very sick but when I received the cash transfer, I spent part of it to treat myself."

"I was woken by the sound of the phone at around 4.am and on checking the phone it was a message from GiveDirectly indicating that I had received money. I couldn't believe it, so I woke my spouse to give her the good news. She was so happy about the news and to her, it was a miracle. We prayed and later called my mum to check if she too got the message and to my surprise, she received the call while laughing, and she didn't seem as if she was sleeping. She could feel the joy we had, so she advised us to get back to sleep and wait until morning so that we could talk on the way forward."

"GD has improved my standards of living for example I can feed my family properly and I am soon starting to construct my house."