"My expectation in the near future is to have an additional dairy cow. Since we mostly depend on milk proceeds after the main sash crop failed us in our locality, I want to utilize this by buying one additional cow to what I currently have. Having these cows means I will have a good income from the sale of milk and it will enable me to meet my family's daily needs and save some for my children's school fees who will soon join secondary school."

"Having expanded my retail shop has made my life to be very different. This was my major source of income since my spouse is old, this was the business we were depending on. It reached a time when we consumed the profits due to the poverty life that we lived in. We were forced to take some loans so that we can boost the business. Finally, we had to close down the kiosk because we were running into debts. I am so thankful to GD for the financial support because I never expected anytime soon the business will start again. My business is now doing okay since there is enough stock and capital as well. From the profit that I am getting, I am now able to pay school fees for my child and cater for other basic needs for my family."

"It was around 4 am when I heard my phone message alert which was so unusual. I decided to check who had sent the message at such an hour and It was my first transfer from GiveDirectly. I felt wow and started planning on how I would utilize the money."

"My life is currently different than it would have been because there are a lot of goals that I have achieved. I was able to clear school fees for my child on time and added more animals. I bought seven sheep and cows. I normally buy and re-sell animals to earn a living. I thank GiveDirectly for the financial support because I did not only have to depend on the few coins from my job."

"I used part of the money I recently received to pay our rent for the past month as my husband was not in a position to pay for. I then added some of my savings from the previous month to the rest of the money then paid school fee for my daughter in kindergarten."

"Having a better house and a more spacious will be a greatest achievement for me and my family. This would put me at the same level as other people in the village as at now we are the only people who has the smallest house in the whole village."

"My goal has always been to revive my movie shop business that collapsed after all my machines were destroyed by a power-surge which has forced me to turn to construction jobs for income. I am hoping that I will be able to save enough to buy most of the equipment even though it has been very tough because I mostly have no income and have to depend on the transfers entirely."

"In the next months, I would have expand my poultry project and this means I would have started earning from it fully. The money which I will save from selling the eggs, I will spend on purchasing building materials for constructing a new house. I got some teenage boys who are about to be initiated and in our culture, the circumcised male shouldn't occupy the same house with the parent. So I am looking forward to building a house for their own which would also be their study room."

"In the next six months, I believe that these goats would have given birth and will double in number. I would have more goats which I would sell some when I got some financial needs even after this transfer stops."

"In the next six months, I believe I will be living a much better life than the way we are now. By then I would have harvested some maize which I planted with part of the transfers which I received from Give Directly. This means we will not lack food and spend less on buying other daily necessities. Again, I would have bought seats for my house and whenever I would have some guest, I wouldn't run up and down to borrow some seats from neighbours something which has been bothering me for some time now."