"My ambition is to be a successful businessman in real estate, own various properties and acquire wealth. I want to help my mother acquire land and build her a house then also start a family with my girlfriend and child."

"My top concern is my family in particular my son who stays with his mother in Huruma. My ex wife and I had marital issues and this led to our separation. At that time I was jobless and she had to take away my son. Though I visit him I would want for him to be part of my daily life. I also worry that I will not provide for his basic needs as a father and that he will not respect me for not showing responsibility."

"Receiving this money means I will be able to build a house that my children will sleep in, buy a cow so that I can have milk and also take care of future eventualities. "

"Receiving this money means I will be able to complete the construction of my house, buy a cow that can reproduce and cater for my children's future needs. I also hope to take my daughter to do a hair dressing course."

"I got injured three months ago after I stumbled and the jerrican I was carrying fell on me. I was put on medication but I stopped two weeks ago because I do not have finances to pay the bills. Currently I am very weak and I fall down at the slight blow of wind. This transfer will help me regain my health as I will be able to continue with medication. I will also invest in goat rearing for income generation purposes. This will make it ease to support my three grandchildren who were neglected by their father after he conflicted with my daughter."

"Receiving this money means I will be able to build an iron roofed house. The one that I currently sleep in is really in a poor state. I also hope to buy oxen that will support in the farming activity. "

"The biggest hardship is having a difficulty of raising orphans with all basic needs on me.Paying school fees, feeding and medical treatment is so challenging yet I am also aging at the same time with no clear source of income but rather depending on subsistence farming."

"The biggest hardship I face is sickness. I was diagonise of diabetis and my doctors have advices me not to over engage in to hard Labour. This has affected me productively on farming yet is a main source of income generatiing activity in my family. I can therefore not managing to provide basic needs for my family."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now own a pair of oxen that I acquired through the transfers I received from GiveDirectly. They will help me with my farming activities. I feel they are more effective than hiring labor because they take fewer days to plough an acre. This means I will get a bumper harvest because of the increased acreage of land tilled. Previously I used to get little harvests because I couldn't hire labor. I am glad this will not be the case anymore. Apart from that, I will also earn more income by hiring the oxen to my neighbors. I like how I have been able to diversify my sources of income with the help I got form Give Directly."

"With the effort that we put in the farm this season through the help of GD transfers that enabled us to buy farm inputs such as fertilizer and hire labourers to assist in weeding, I hope that we will have a bumper harvest this season. This will be good news as it will give us a break from purchasing cereals for family consumption and even have excess to sell for income whenever we are in a financial fix."