"My long-term goal is to pay school fees for my children until they complete high school. My other short-term goal is to start taking produce from my farm to the market to get money to pay school fees."

"I started my business just before Covid 19 hit the country, I was selling new clothes at the market near my house. During the pandemic, the business went down, somedays I would not sell a penny. I have three children that depend on me and most nights we would sleep hungry hoping for a better day. I also could not afford to pay school fees for my children and some days they were sent away. Life was tough, I would cry out at night. After a year of struggling, I received GiveDirectly transfer which I spent on my business, I added stock and after a month, the business blossomed. I now get $30 a day which I save for school fees and food without strain."

"GiveDirectly does not ask for bribes, they are not tribal. Whenever I call their toll-free number they speak to us politely and all my problems are solved."

"My short-term goal is to add more stock to my business, add cows and sell them at the market. The business has profits that can help me pay school fees for my children without strain."

"I used part of it $470 to buy timber for constructing our house. and used the remaining amount to buy food for my family.. For a long time, I have lived in a mud walled house that was hard to maintain especially me as a person who is yet to get married. I would ask my mother to help in maintaining the house something that I did not feel so comfortable with. I feel so happy that the money has improved our living standards by a great deal."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is the things I have invested in. Looking at the furniture that I now own in my house added to the fact that I have completed the construction of my own house makes me so happy. I feel my firstborn child now has a place to call home."

"The challenge i am facing is poverty and lack of food.The good crops are not yielding anymore like them because the gardens have been washed away.My Wife and I are now doing casual labour for survival but even the pay is not much.I M struggling to see that I take my children back to school as the term opens.My only worry is where I will get the money to facilitate them and yet I want to see them better in school."

"I came from the farm in the evening and heard that other people received their money from Give Directly. I immediately gave my phone to my son to check and he found out that mine was there as well. I was so excited and overjoyed. I immediately thought of starting my own small business and plastering my house."

"My house was a stick house and falling at the same time. My wife and i are too old to get sticks from the bush and couldn't afford to pay someone to help. But with the help of Give Directly, i used the money paid workers to build my brakes house. Because the brakes was already available from the first transfer."

"I am hoping that before the end of this year, my family and i will be living in a decent house with zinc where raining season will no longer be a problem for us."