"In the next six months l expect to have change the look of my house by renovating it through plastering cracked wall. I will be staying in a good looking house that I have been longing to have."

"I did a course in welding and currently, I'm employed in someone's workshop. I do not find it productive because I'm paid on commission so in the next six month of my life I expect to have saved enough money to purchase the welding equipment so that I open my workshop. With this, I'll earn more which enable me to comfortably meet my family's needs and goals."

"Firewood come across as an important source of income in my village. I spend most of my days in an adjacent government forest collecting firewood for sale in a nearby shopping center. I usually engage in this otherwise illegal activity so as to provide for my family of three especially to pay for the milk I rent from a neighbor and purchase of other household needs. Upon receiving money from GiveDirectly, I intend to buy a dairy cow which is going to take the role of substitute source of income. This will relieve me of a constant fear of possible prosecution for deforestation. My dairy cow is going to be the beginning of a sustainable development in my family which will play a major role in the education of my children. "

"Receiving this money will enable me to start rearing poultry for sale, a project i have always wished to initiate but capital has been a great challenge. I will use part of the money to buy timber, nails, iron sheets and wire mesh which i will use to construct a chicken coop, then buy chicks and their feeds. The remaining part of the transfer will be spent on paying third termschool fees for my children. "

"Being a casual worker, i work in peoples homes in order to earn a living to enable me provide for my family. However, its not usually a guarantee for me to get any job daily hence as the breadwinner of my family, this worries me. Unreliable source of income is therefore the biggest hardship i have faced"

"I was diagnosed of athritis 6 years ago, a disease that has greatly affected my health and productivity since i cant engage in activities such as farming, something that i used to depend on for living before the disease cropped in. I now fully depend on my children to provide for me which makes me feel like im being a burden to them. This is the biggest hardship i have faced"

"In the next six months, My life will have improved because I will be having another source income in the egg production alongside crop farming. I will establish the project in the next two months and by the sixth month, I will be benefitting from the investment. I know that I will have an easier time and an ability to even invest more aggressively in farming."

"I have a son who in Secondary school.He is already a grown man and as such requires his private space.In our culture,once a boy goes through circumcision, they are no longer allowed to sleep in the same house as the parents.Due to money related challenges together with the struggles to feed and educate my children,I have not been able to raise money to build him his own house where he can study and sleep.He has therefore been forced to sleep at a neighbour's house and I sometimes see this as demeaning.Receiving this money means that I will finally be able to build him a small house."

"My life is now different in that I have been able to pay for my sister's fees in high school as well as paying for my own for a course that I had enrolled. I could not have raised this much to support both of us if it was to come from my meagre earnings. In addition to this, I have been able to cater for my family's basic needs without much struggle unlike before."

"Receiving this money means that I will buy abull for ploughing since I sold the one I had for treatment. It is always difficult to dig abigger portion of the garden using hand hoes, therefore there is a need for abull for ploughing. The balance of the money will be used for treatment since Iam not feeling well."