"The biggest difference is that I am now happy because the cash has enabled me to own some goats. My decision to go for goats is that I am assured of achieving a lot from them within a short period of time. First, they take a shorter time to mature and they reproduce mostly twice a year. These are the co reasons why I choose rearing them. I am hopeful they will make me wealthier within a short period of time. This will give me the ability to buy a dairy cow since I have been planning to own this."

"My life has changed for the good because we now have this new house where we live the entire family and everyone fits in quite comfortably. We also have a cow that will be providing milk so we will not have to be buying milk from the local vendors like we have been doing."

"I am currently selling shoes and some second-hand clothes in town. This is a business that I started through the GiveDirectly money. My goal now is to improve this business by adding more stock to it."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months because my business of selling chicken will have grown. I am now hopeful of living a good life and achieving my goals through the profits I will make from the poultry farm. I thank Give Directly for giving me the means of starting this business and also stabilizing it."

"I don't expect any change so far because almost all my transfer I used on building and improving my house. I am not yet done with the work though I am some miles away. Hopefully, by the end of my term, I will have managed to improve it to the level I want it to be."

"In the next six months of my life, I expect to have raised enough money to plant a good number of tree seedling. Not only will they be beneficial to the environment, but I'll also be earning income from them."

"For the next six months, I expect to have raised enough money to pay for my wife's dowry. I have always wished to take her officially and when I found the opportunity to do that, I didn't hesitate. I thank GiveDirectly for helping me do this. I will forever remember them because was it not for them probably my wife would have left."

"I believe that my life will have changed in the next six months in that I will have started poultry keeping project. I will be saving part of the income generated from this project and use the remaining amount to cater for my family. In addition to this, I will have increased the size of land under potato and beans cultivation. Since I do not have enough piece of land to carry out this activity, I am planning to lease a farm where I will plant these crop. This will increase my yields hence I will be able to sell more of my produce after setting aside some for my family consumption."

"I'm planning to raise money so that I can purchase a dairy cow in the next four months so that I won't budget for milk in the future. After achieving the goal of purchasing the cow I'll later save the coming transfer and buy more goats so that after they have given birth I can sell them to raise money for purchasing more cows for rearing. With the dairy cows, I'll be assured of additional income from the sales of surplus milk. At the same time, my family will have enough milk for consumption."

"I am able to do business which generates some cash at the end of the day. Apart from that, I also rely on the casual businesses of being a barber within the locality and so far I think it has generated some money which keeps me going on a day to day basis."