"I have a plan of increasing my number of animals. I do currently own one goat and 5 hens which is quite a start since I never had them before. However, I would like to increase this much more. I plan to get more female goats and I plan to breed them so that they reproduce and increase in number. For chicken what I want are more eggs to hatch in turn increasing my numbers. These are the easiest animals to sell around here and having them in large numbers is a big investment as I would be able to meet my family's emergencies as well as get goats and cows from selling the hens or their chicks."

"I have used quite a large percentage of my transfers on my children over the past few months. In January, I spent $20 on school fees for my children in high school while in March I spent $22.5 on school fees for my youngest. I spend so much on school as I do not want my children to miss out on education and end up as hoodlums. There is no work here and so without an education, you are stuck at home with nothing much to do and this makes most young people become thieves. I do not want this for my children. My oldest is in form 2 and his school fees are $400 per term. To ensure that he is not sent away from school we need to pay $50 monthly to bring the school fees debt down. My daughter in form four is also in a school that needs $250 per term and we are $200 in arrears. I want to use this money to get my children through school at least to give them a fighting chance to seek out work beyond our village."

"I am very focused on completing my house. We live in a small one-roomed house which does not allow for much privacy. We live in this small room with my two children and Husband. My oldest is now 4 years old which means soon he will be old enough to need his own space. My youngest is yet one year but I know time flies and he will catch up with his sibling. I want us to be able to have a space for my husband and me while the children have their own space hence my working on constricting a three-roomed house. I have also been buying chicken since I lost the ones I had to a sickness that swept through the village. Now through GD, I have 8 hens with 15 chicks and I only expect the numbers to grow. I plan to sell them and buy goats which can be used for business to take my children through school since they soon will be school-going."

"I hope to finish building my business premise this year. Although its structural component is complete, I hope to furnish it soon to operate a shop there. I am a professional fashion designer, but because I do not have a workshop, I do tailoring services at home. I do not do much tailoring since I occasionally go to the market to sell vegetables. Succeeding in that goal will aid in the promotion of my business, providing me with a steady source of money. However, because my spouse is a casual laborer, the success of my business will relieve him of hard labor because we will work together to manage the business as a family."

"My life has completely changed, I am living in a good house and I was able to buy two goats, I even paid the medical insurance and I repaid some loans I took in the saving group. I deeply thank Givedirectly for the financial support."

"I bought a land of 200k , I am planning to plant different crops such as beans and potatoes."

"I am living a good life before I struggled to pay school fees now I was able to pay the school fees for my children. I was able to buy food for my family and now we are planning to use the second batch in constructing our own house."

"It was in the morning around 8 am , I was planting beans in a crop land that was near our house.I heard a notification message from my phone that was coming from Givedirectly that I received money . I immediately went to announce it to my husband, we were so happy we celebrated it by dancing. One thing that came in my mind is that we were finally going to be rich."

"It was in the morning around 7 am, I was farming with others . Then I heard one lady saying that she received the money and I immediatey checked my phone and found that I received it the donation through mobile money. I was so happy and I even danced. The first thing that came in my mind is that I was going to change my life in a positive way."

"As I mentioned earlier, I joined a savings group as a result of receiving GD transfers. Last year we saved from February, and I was able to get about $100 in February this year, which has contributed towards achieving my goal. My main goal for the year is to build a house for my family which is usually a capital-intensive project. I have already purchased some of the things but I hope to see this project accomplished at the end of this year. I will still be saving with my savings group and direct my savings towards the project as my husband also works on the same. I also want to add a few more animals that will reproduce. I plan to eventually buy a cow by selling the offspring and using the proceeds from selling milk from the cow in taking care of my brother's school fees."