"With the great plans we have with my family, I expect to have purchased the one cow we had been planning for in the next six months. This would be possible due to the savings plan I have been having through the merry-go-round which I joined. we have great expectations that we will have purchased a cow by the end of six months."

"My father got really impressed with the progress I made in my farming which I did after I started receiving the transfers from GiveDirectly. He felt convinced with my hard work and dedication towards this goal. This lead to him adding me more space for farming. Now I am in the process of raising tea seedlings so that I can plant in the next few months. I believe in the next six months I would have set up a seedbed. This will be the first step towards a long term project that will enable me to have a reliable source of income. Tea is a perennial crop that will be of help for many l generations to come."

"I realized that I had an unread message at around 5.30 am when I wanted to use my phone's torch. When I read its content, my heart was filled with happiness. I gave thanks to God for the blessings that had just come in. This money marked a new beginning in my life as I knew that I would use it to achieve so many things."

"My new goal is to start selling clothes. I have noticed men and women clothes are marketable in our area, therefore, venturing on this business will earn me more."

"I expect my life in the next six months to have greatly changed in that I will have started poultry farming thus will have eggs for both household consumption and sales. I expect to be saving some money for any more investments or financial needs arising in my family. I am hopeful that in the next six months my heifer to be about to calf and this will always be my happiness."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is lack of money to take care of the education needs of my children. I am a farmer so for me to raise money to pay school fees, I have to sell some harvest which some times affects what remains for my family to feed on the fact that I don't farm on large scale because of limited space. I don't have enough land."

"Receiving this money means I will be able to buy a piece of land that I can cultivate. I shared the only piece of land that I had among my children and now I don't have where to farm."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is lack of farm land. I don't have food to feed the family because there is no where for me to cultivate. My children have just a meal in a day because that is what we can afford. "

"I want to boost my small scale business which I have been running for the past years. I have to make sure that I get more raw materials in order for me to be able to make more profits in the nears future."

"I was woken up by a message notification around 4:00 am. On checking to confirm who the sender was I realized that it was from GiveDirectly informing me I had received my first transfer. I was very happy to receive the amount of money that GiveDirectly had promised us. It was like a dream come true for me since I had never imagined that I would actually receive such amount of money."