"My life is different than it would have been because I am happy, since am able to afford better food and resolved my money problems. "

"My life is different than it would have been because I sleep in better house structure and on a mattress, I am able to afford school fees for children unlike before. "

"My greatest desire is to be able to have sufficient crop production both for domestic consumption and for outside supplies, a business I intend to setup within the village. First of all, I will use part of my transfers to purchase two oxen and an ox-plough.Having that will enable me to prepare my land efficiently and in good time resulting to better harvest. Secondly, I will take my child back to college. He dropped out of school due to lack of school fee. It will be his greatest joy to finally complete his education and secure a better future. Finally, I will secure myself a better medical attention."

"I have always wanted to buy three cows so that I can add to the stock of two that I currently have. This is because I believe that cows have value and when they are well fed they will reproduce and I will manage to sell some of the cows at a local market in Bamba. The remaining amount will be spent on expanding my grocery business through buying more bags of kales which I can supply at our local market. "

"My biggest worry is always about being unable to cater for my children's education.I struggle so much in life because I didn't get proper education and wouldn't want my children to go through the same.It worries me so much that even at the formative stage of their education, I can not give them the best due to lack of stable source of income."

"Last year I lost sixteen cows due to famine that hit our land. I depended on the cows for milk and other farming activities like ploughing my farm. Unfortunately, I lost all of them thereby leaving me without any stable source of income and this comes at a time when my son needs school fees for joining secondary school of which I am not able to raise. "

"Food security for my family members remains my biggest worry as a peasant farmer who depends on rain for farming. The rainfall has lately become unreliable leading to drought and the pesticides are exorbitant. To cover up for drought, I sometimes resort to charcoal burning which takes days before earning some income.As such, my family is forced to skip lunch or breakfast which again is a recipe for malnutrition diseases such as kwashiorkor to my children. "

"In the next six months l expect to have started poultry keeping."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life was losing my mother at the age of 5. This forced me to live with my step mother who never allowed me to realize my dream of becoming a plant operator as she never paid my primary school fees. This forced me to drop out of school in standard four and denied me a chance to further my education hence could not become a plant operator. "

"I have a peace of mind nowadays compared the days before I got Give Directly transfers so my heart is filled with joy and happiness."