""Coming from a very poor background and not having anything to begin your life with is not a easy thing. I wish to see myself in college by next year. With my recent and last transfer received from GiveDirectly and others funding that I have been keeping, I know I can accomplish my dream of being a university graduate.""

""Receiving this huge amount of money free was one of the happiest moment of my life. I was sleeping when the heavy noises from the community woke me up and I heard them shouting about the money, I too jumped up from my bed and checked my phone and behold my transfer was there. The first thing that came to mind when I saw the message was helping my Mother to built a new house because the one we are presently staying in a is not really conducive for living. This had been our dreams all along.""

"My most recent transfer has not been spent because I do not have chance to go and withdraw it, but I already make my foundation bricks fron the first transfer I received, so I am planning to start my building construction process very soon as I withdraw my recent transfer."

"Givedirectly is really doing well, by taking us from hardship. I have been planning to build a house but because of financial constrain I have not been able. But from the cash transfer from Givedirectly I am coming to build my house so I highly appreciate GiveDirectly. I recommend that GiveDirectly please try to get to our brothers and sisters in the neighbouring towns and villages that they have not yet reached."

"My most recent transfer was spent on buying bags of cement to plaster the inside and the outside parts of my house."

""The joyed and excitement I felt that day I received my first transfer cannot be explained. It was early in the morning when I saw the message on my phone. To admit when I saw the message it was life a dream to me because I know the struggles one had to go through to raise such a huge amount of money. So getting it free was a miracle to me. After going through my transfer message over and over with so much joyed, the first thing that came to mind was how to plaster my house. This project seen live forever to complete due to financial constraints.""

"As a woman selling local brew for survival was a big challenge for me. Men could come and drink then fail to pay and I could not do anything. They bullied me but since I had no way out, I just found myself pleading on their legs so that they could pay for what they had already consumed. Life was tougher for me. Thanks to GiveDirectly for the transfer. Through it, I managed to pay school fees for my children who were lamenting at home about not being able to continue with their studies. Their lamentation gave me sleepless nights but now I feel relieved since they are back to school because of GiveDirectly."

""When I withdraw my transfer, I intend to use a portion of it to pay my children's tuition and save the remaining amount to wait for the second transfer to buy materials and start my house project. My family does not own a house, the house we live in belongs to my father"."

""I hope to complete my house project in the coming year, because the house that I am living in currently belong to my father in law"."

"I used the funds from the transfer to purchase six goats up until November of last year. After selling six goats, I used the money to buy a dairy cow. I'm going to harvest the cow's milk in a few months and sell it. My objective is to keep spending the money I will be paid on additional goat purchases so that I can eventually turn the goats into cows. When I have a sizable herd of cows, I will be able to sell the milk that the cows produce as a secondary source of income."