"My greatest goal was to have something that would be of great help to my family in terms of income generation. Therefore, with the transfers, I had planned to purchase a motorbike that my husband would be using in conducting business believing that the income would be of help in terms of providing necessities to my family."

"The transfers that I received from GiveDirectly had been of great help to my family and I. I had lived in a house that was in a dilapidated state for quite some time because I did not have the financial resources to enable me to renovate or build a new one, but GiveDirectly finally came to my rescue. Of the transfers that I have been receiving, a greater portion of it had been channeled towards my new house construction with the most recent one being of help in terms of buying roofing sheets where I spent $105 and so far I am so grateful. I also had two of my children in secondary school and I was required also to settle their school fees arrears that had pilled up for several months which I paid $200. I also wanted to start a livestock rearing project and therefore bought a cow at $180 believing that it will be of help in the future and lastly bought food for my family with the remaining amount of $45. No words would express how happy and grateful I was to GiveDirectly for bringing me this far."

"GiveDirectly is doing great in terms of providing financial support to the needy like us in the society and the support had so far enabled us to accomplish some of the dreams that we had. Everything GiveDirectly does well and there is nothing to improve on."

"We immensely thank Givedirectly for the financial support.It was our first time to receive a donation.We are now a happy family because we own a crop land and I was able to buy food for my family ."

"I can't imagine the life I will be living in, I was able to buy land and food for my family. We are now a happy family we couldn't afford to take three meals per day but now we are to buy food and eat three meals in day."

"I bought tiles for 125k because my roof was half covered."

"Most of the money was spent on buying livestocks , we bought two goats and one pig . The total cost for it was 150k."

"My life is becoming better because of the financial support from Givedirectly , I was able to pay back the loan I took and the rest of the money I am planning to renovate the wallls and the roof of my house.Moreover, I was able to buy food for my family."

"The money from Givedirectly came as solution , I had no hope where I will find money to renew my house but now I was able to renovate it. We had no food at home we were hungry but I was able to take care of my family by buying them food and clothes."

"I was home in the morning around 8am in my bedrom then my child came told me the news that I have received the first transfer from Givedirectly. I was full of joy. One thing I thought, I was going to change my standards of living."