""I was home when my phone rang; it was a message from GiveDirectly that I have received $35,625. Wow! I was very excited to receive this amount. The first thing I thought of was to buy vegetable seeds to make a garden because this had been my dream"."

""My family does not own a house. Our greatest prayer has been building a house of our own, but we could not afford it. However, our lives have changed since the day we received the money from GiveDirecty. My family is extremely grateful to GiveDirectly for the great things they have done in our lives"."

""When I withdraw my transfer, I intend to use a portion of it to start building a house in zwedru for my children, and also pay my children school fees with the remaining cash"."

"I am a business man. I have been making my business for some time now. Sometimes, business is slow. I can hardly get customers. My daughter have been staying with her aunt for a while. Since she moved back, things have not been okay. Sometimes getting our daily needs gets a bit difficult. I was overwhelmed when I started receiving payments from GiveDirectly. I used my last transfer to buy more goods for my business. I am so thankful for this opportunity."

"In my opinion, GiveDirectly does not do anything wrongly. It's program has changed our lives for the best. We are so grateful for this opportunity. One of our major problems is cashing out our transfer. We travel over eight(8) hours on motorcycle to and fro just cash out. Due to the bad road condition in our country, we spend a lot of money on transportation and most times we get sick by the time we are back. One major thing GiveDirectly could do for the next village to make the process better is to include in its partnership with the GSM company, if possible, that every time transfer goes out the company can send an agent to our village to assist us in cashing out our money."

"My most recent transfer was spent on buying assorted building materials such as zinc, cement and planks to renovate my house."

"I was really worried about how to finish my house. And I was finding it very difficult because of financial constrain. But now that I have started received transfer from GiveDirectly, I am going to finish my house. For now I know and believe that my life has started changing from GiveDirectly transfer."

"Although I have not yet withdraw my money, but I am thinking about my plans and the transfer I have started receiving from Givedirectly, I know that my life has changed completely because I am about to build my house and sponsor my children in school."

"I am a business minded person, and really want to establish a sustainable business but because of financial deficiency, I am unable to do so. But now that I have started receiving money from GiveDirectly, I am going to build my house and start a business to support my children in school. For this great help that Givedirectly has brought to my family and I, I am so happy and appreciative to Givedirectly for they have changed my entire family and I lives."

"I bought five bags of cement to plaster my old house. I was also able to pay the contractor who did the work."