"Having the oxen is the best gift I can proudly mention so far. As a farmer, I have been yearning to have them but I could not afford. I am so grateful for the financial support I received from GiveDirectly. I will benefit in many ways from the oxen. First, in my farming activities. They will be of great help because they take little time to plough an acre compared to when I do the exercise myself. This will result in some good harvests. Secondly, the oxen will help me especially in fetching water. The dams are very far from the village it takes hours to travel to the dam sites. This will be a great relief to me."

"I expect my life will have improved because my son who will be preparing for his final exam. I will have supported him well and I think he will be ready. I also expect to have a maize crop on my farm and hopefully, it will be doing well; unlike the last crop that failed. The hope that I will be having food in my family is the one thing that I cling to and know that my life will be better in the six coming months because I have the transfers to buy the inputs and do the necessary farm operations to enable me to produce food for my family."

"Keeping the goats in my compound has made my life to be totally different. With the goats, they are easier and cheaper to manage compared to other domestic animals. To add on that, they have multiple uses such as milk production, manure and many more. My plan is when they reproduce and mature I will exchange some for a dairy cow so that I can get plenty of milk and to double my income. And according to me, these are the good assets that will help me in the near future. I will be able to meet my family's basic needs with ease. Thank you God for bringing GiveDirectly in my village."

"I expect to have a better source of income and food from my dairy cow and the food crops from the farm. I will buy a cow using the savings that I make using part of every month's transfer. I will also be having a proper garden with all sorts of vegetables and food crops."

"In the next six months, we would have bought a dairy cow and buy a piece of land. This two are the main priorities which we got at the moment. We intend to plant tea on the piece of land that we shall have bought so that we can have a reliable source of income."

"I expect my life to have greatly improved because of several stable income sources. In addition to income from poultry, I will have a dairy cow that I will have acquired using the savings from transfers. I expect have made my home self reliant in terms of food acquisition and let my husband concentrate on longterm investments especially the children education."

"In the next six months, I would like to have bought more chicken and constructed a perimeter fence around my poultry house. This will enable me to protect my chicken from predators. After adding more chicken I expect that the earnings would be much more and would start earning more. This will enable me to pay school fees for my children with less struggle."

"Owning the pair of oxen has made my life to be more different so far. I am so sure they help me in my farming activities because I currently do not have a farm I normally lease. I always hire the pair of oxen from my neighbours and sometimes do the tilling by myself when I fail to afford the fee. But with the air of oxen that I have, I will be able to plough at ease and to add on that I will be hiring t to my neighbors at a fee. This will be my major source of income since in my village there are few people who own the ox hence the demand is high."

"My expectation in the next six months is to have a permanent strategic plan for my unemployment. I want to start planting bananas and trees. I will be selling the seedlings to earn a living as I wait for the selected few mature ones. I want to start selling timber in the next few years. I also want to also start a poultry farm for my wife. She has an interest in poultry keeping. I know that with these activities, our living standards will improve for good."

"In the next six months l expect to have completed extended my house and staying in a nice spacious comfortable house."