"My expectation in the near future is to have started a grain business that I have long dreamed of. Proceeds from the business will help me look after my family well. I will now be able to help my spouse on some household needs. The business will also keep me busy while being a source of income for my family. Right now I am only doing subsistence farming, so I want to like diversify."

"My expectation in the near future is to have grown both financially and even the status of our lifestyle. I want to improve my family buy doing more of dairy farming and I am even planning to have another cow soon. Dairy farming, from the sale of milk, will help me meet some of our household's needs. I want to be in a better position to look after my family as the head of the house."

"In the next six months l will have expanded the business and be able to serve the whole community and enjoy more profit out of it."

"I hope that in the next six months, I would have gotten my health back. Right now, I just sit around doing nothing because of my poor health. I hope I will get enough money to go back to the hospital for checkup. Once I am healthy, I can do simple home chores such as looking after my livestock."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that, I have bought 2 cows that I am intending to pay as dowry to my wife's parents. I am soon formalizing my marriage after I pay dowry to my in laws. Previously, I didn't have enough money to buy cows since whatever I got was spent for supporting my family."

"My life has greatly changed and it is currently different after receiving my transfers since I have built a decent spacious house. I now live in a decent iron-roofed house which has boosted my self-esteem in society and given better comfort. This is a dream that I could not have fulfilled at my own cost. I feel it dawned at an older age. I had for long wished to live in a decent house but my overwhelming family needs never gave me a chance to build one. I had struggled to provide for my family which I could manage to meet with my small business profits and selling of farm produce. My house got older and older thus started cracking and weak a situation that was becoming uncomfortable for me. With my age, I lost hope of building a decent house but I thank GiveDirectly since they made it possible for me."

"My life is now different because I currently own three cows which I would not have managed to buy at my own cost. One of my future goals was to have at least a good source of income. I feel GiveDirectly has fulfilled this since I will be selling milk as these cows reproduce. I had wished for long to buy more livestock but due to scarce resources and overwhelming family needs never balanced to give me a chance to buy one. I feel so happy to own these added assets courtesy of GiveDirectly."

"Looking at my life now, there is really a great difference with if I had never received the transfers. The subsistence and the livestock farming I have ventured in, the new house I constructed, and the cleared school fees for my children would not have happened without the support from the transfers we received. At least my children are now getting ample time to study in school and back home they are assured of a healthy hearty meal."

"My life is different than it would have been if I never received these transfer in that I have a gotten a new house that I always desired. My husband was has been our breadwinner for the last one year after getting a leg injury he couldn't go back to work and that met a hold on our developmental project. Personally , I feel honored that I now have a decent house that can host my family members comfortably. With the two acre of land that we had cultivated maize and other food crop with the money, its also an assurance of food security in my household."

"In my daily life, owning a cow that produces milk twice every day is indeed the biggest difference. Before receiving the first transfer, we would always buy milk from the neighboring shopping center. This was too expensive for us to manage since we never had a consistent source of income. On some days, we would go without milk and when we managed to buy, still it wasn't enough for the whole household. We are now grateful that we currently produce enough both for domestic use and surplus for sale."