For the past four months, I have been able to both pay for my child's school fee on time and to provide for the family without straining a lot. This is unlike the previous case when we only relied on the little income my spouse earned from the casual work. Whatever he earned could barely meet basic needs forcing us at times to go without meals but I'm grateful to GD. This is how different my life is from how it was four months ago.

Currently, I do not have a reliable source of income and in most cases, I always stay idle. This resulted in conflicts between me and my spouse because I rely on him for everything. Since he doesn't have a reliable source of income he can't meet most of the family needs. For the next four months of my life, I have an additional goal to save the coming transfer and start up a business. This will keep me engaged most of the time and at the same time, I'll relieve my spouse of some of the household expenses.

The biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer is that my child is currently going to school without breaking for school fee. The boy dropped out of school before GD enrolled us but when I received the first transfer I took him back to school. Since then he has been continuously attending classes because I have been paying for his school fee on time. I'm proud of seeing my child who already lost hope in life doing so well in school and I'm hopeful that he'll have a great future.

I have the plans to start up a business because I do not have any source of income currently. This will save my spouse who is the main income earner from straining financially. He too doesn't have a reliable source of income and the little he earns from the casual is usually spent on food. With the additional income from the business, we'll be able to meet most of the family's needs without straining even after GD will have stopped sending us money.

My life is currently different from how it was four months ago because l am now staying in a nice spacious comfortable house as compared to before when l was staying in thatched leaky house. I am also eating very comfortably without to much stress because I spent the money to buy enough maize to consume.

My new goal is to buy more furniture since I now have a spacious house that can accommodate more seats and being that I have very few seats to sit on, I feel it good to have more seat in that when I have visitors they can sit comfortably.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that l manage to buy building materials and build a nice spacious iron roofed house. I am now staying in a very nice comfortable house where I do not need to worry when it is raining, before I was staying in a thatched leaky house where l was being rained on when it is raining. I was also staying in a very small house that when I have visitors we could not sit comfortably because the house was too small .

In the next six months l expect to have bought more furniture and place in my spacious house, where by my visitors will be sitting freely.

Currently, my life is different in that I have gotten my dream house which I never knew I would have. At the moment I am at peace staying in an iron sheet house which I never knew I could own. Therefore the expenses I used to incur in renovating the grassed thatched house or fetching for grass, I now spend on cultivating my farm and my children are healthy since they no longer get respiratory attacks due to exposure to cold that resulted from the leaky grassed thatched house.

My new gaols in the next four months is to save part of the transfers including my spouses and with this savings, I will be able to buy decent chairs.

Before GiveDirectly came, I was staying in a grassed thatched house which was leaking. The biggest difference in my daily life for the last four months is that my children no longer get sick most often due to exposure to cold since I have been able to raise money and built a decent spacious iron sheet house. Before when I could take them to the hospital regularly due to respiratory attacks that was caused by exposure to cold. Nowadays they do not have arising health related issue and I am so grateful for the support from GiveDirectly.

I expect my life to change for the next six months in that I have saved enough money and with the savings, I will be able to buy decent chairs hence I wouldn't have to borrow chairs from my neighbours when I have visitors.

My life is currently different from how it was four months ago because l am now staying in iron roofed house as compared to be for when l was staying in small thatched leaky house.

My new goal in the next four months is that l am planing to buy furniture since l now have a very nice house and when l have visitors they lack where to sit on.

The biggest difference in my life is that l am now staying in very comfortable house where l am not worried when it is raining, since l managed to build a spacious iron roofed house with the money l got from give directly.

In the next six months l expect to have bought furniture and also started cattle keeping, since l am planing to buy two goats.

I am planning to build a house for my family. I am planning to also buy livestock for rearing.

Currently I am able to buy food in bulk unlike before I used to take a day at a time. Besides that I currently can settle my children's school fees with ease.

In the next six months I expect to have bought quite a number of livestock and my family will no longer have a problem with what to eat on a daily basis.

The biggest difference in my daily life since I started receiving payments is I have food enough for my family. This has brought me much peace in my heart.