"I expect that my life will be improved in the next six months. I will be owning a cow and rearing chickens. From the two ventures, I will be able to get money to feed the family. I will be harvesting maize that I have to grow. I have a lot of hope to better my living conditions and live more comfortably in the next six months."

"I expect my life to have improved in the next six months. I intend to use the money from the farm and part of the transfers to start a business. I will be trading in chickens and create another source of income. I am confident that I will succeed in this business because I had done it before. I left the business many years ago because I ran out of cash to sustain it. With these transfers, I will revive it."

"My prayer in for the near future is to have my health back! I am currently bedridden and this means that I cannot work nor provide for my family. I really wish to be a position where I can be productive like I used to do before. Meanwhile, I want to ensure that I take the medication as advised by the doctors and I am glad that GiveDirectly is with me through this journey. With the transfers that I receive on a monthly basis, I am able to regularly go for a checkup and buy the required drugs."

"In the next six months, I want to ensure my family have enough food in the house. This has been my major worry because we have had to miss several meals in our family so as to meet other family needs. I would want to improve on this by ensuring we have enough food always in store for the family. I will always budget on a monthly basis so that my children cannot miss what to eat when they come back from school."

"My expectation in the near future is to be financially stable and independent. I want to be in a position where I can run my projects comfortably with little pressure. Bills such as school fees payment for my child sometimes stresses me since I may not have enough money to pay sometimes. Being stable financially will mean I will sort such comfortably and still have enough to meet other needs. I hope that we will be in a position as a family where we do not lack!"

"GiveDirectly's transfer brought Christmas festive very early since I used the transfer to buy food. Providing food in my house was a major area of challenge that we have been facing for a long time now. I am a peasant farmer and at times, I do casual work to provide food for my family. The wage is too small that can't even fit our daily income. The biggest difference in my daily life is the ability to have three meals in a day which was a luxury before. This Christmas season we have stayed as a happy family because we were able to eat well and gift my children new clothes as well."

"I started a T-shirts business with some of the money I had previously received and wanted to keep it strong, so I purchased more stock of one bale with most of the second transfer. I spent some of the money on personal items such as clothing for my family members and I and the rest on foodstuff."

"In the next six months, I would want to have finished paying this year's school fees arrears for my children. Both in primary and secondary school. I expect my children to pass their examinations so that they can get good and well-paying jobs after graduating and make their lives better. And they can only achieve this when they have ample time studying in school. The only way to ensure they have all they need to pass their examinations is through paying their fees arrears in time so that they cannot be sent home regularly. This is why I have decided to commit to my part as a parent of paying their fees and encourage them to perform well in their studies."

"In the next six months, I plan to plaster my house. My first priority was to put up a permanent house but since I did not have the money for it, I have decided to have a semi-permanent one. Now that I built a good iron-roofed, mud-walled house the one things I need are cement and sand for plastering the house. This is why I have plans of saving part of my monthly transfers so that I can buy such building materials for plastering the house. I know in the next six months, I will have saved the required amount for the materials and even to pay the mason who will do that job. I am glad GD will help me get where I could not get on my own."

"I felt so happy the moment I received money from GiveDirectly. I shared the good news with my husband early that morning and he was equally happy. From the moment I read that message, I could hardly have a wink since I was extremely happy."