"I expect to have financial freedom in the next six months. The farm work will give us consistent income. GiveDirectly funds gave us the muscle that we needed to start this income generating activity and we are grateful."

"In the next six months, I expect to have started a business so that I can be independent."

"I expect my economic status to be better in the next six months. We plan to plant some crops and get a harvest for sufficient meals and perhaps some surplus for sale and an income for us."

"I expect my life to be better economically in the next six months. I expect to have all the basics needs of my family adequately met. I plan to expand my existing business of selling tea and work hard at it to get a good income for us - I will most likely borrow some cash from relatives so as to expand the business."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am happier than before. This is because I am able to meet the daily basic needs with less strain unlike before. I used to strain to meet our basic needs due to recurrent repair expenses with my old motorbike taxi which would swallow the day's revenue. I used to even go negative and have nothing to take home end of day yet I am the breadwinner. Since I got the new motorbike taxi I am happy. No repair woes hence consistent income to carry back home a meal to my family end of day."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is the fact that we nowadays have a cow in our farm, we are foreseeing a near future where we will not be buying ilk anymore."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that, I will have bought a plough and oxen and so I will be able to plough people's farms to earn a living and mine too."

"When I received the money I became very happy that I even missed school on that day so that I may accompany my husband to withdraw the money from the nearby town."

"I now own land something I never hoped to see"

"I have a house in my own land "