"GiveDirectly gives grants while other NGOs give loans."

"There is a big difference in that GD offers money while the other NGO only educated us on how to increase land productivity."

"GiveDirectly helps everyone who is willing in the village while other NGOs help just a few."

"We plan to spend my upcoming lump sum payment on paying University fee (parallel Program) and boosting my husband’s livestock business."

"The biggest hardship I face currently in my life is on making decisions with my husband since he never went to school and we mostly differ of most things as I find his ideas not appealing."

"The achievement I am proudest of is having been able to take our three children to secondary school even though the journey has not been easy but we thank God for this far He has brought us."

"I plan to buy ironsheet and use together with the timber we prepared, and build an iron roofed house. We should used to sell second hand clothes, but used the capital for paying school fees for our two children who joined secondary school. We therefore plan to use the transfer to restart the business so that we may have a source of income."

"The achievement I am proudest of is having been able to build my current house which is bigger and better,an improvement from the one I used to stay in."

"I'm planning to cement the floor of my house because at the moment it is earth. I'm also planning to buy a parcel of land which I can till because I have a small farming land.."

"My house is dusty, I plan to buy cement and cement the floor and walls of mny house to finish it."