My life is currently different from the way it was four months ago in that I bought a few chicken for rearing with the previous transfers. Apart from that, I have been able to save a lot of money after selling a few in the market. I am targeting next Christmas holiday. I believe I will have grown the business and I hope the demand will still be high by then. I thank Give Directly for enabling me to start this business.

For the next four months, I have an additional goal of starting a barbershop. There are a few barbershops in our area but the demand is so high. I believe that I'll be able to earn a good income from it since there is a school close to the shop where I intend to start this business. If all goes well I will be financially stable and meeting my family needs and goals will not be that much of a hustle.

I bought crossbreed chicken with part of the previous transfers with an intention to start a poultry farm. The crossbreed poultry grows fast and they earn a good income within a short period of time. I'm proud I have been able to save enough for the past for months. I will later use the money from the poultry business to start up another business next year. With the additional income from the shop, I'll have a reliable income which will sustain me even after GiveDirectly will have stopped sending us the monthly transfers.

In the next six months, I expect to have started a barbershop. I am planning to invest and expand my sources of income by all means. I believe I will be successful in achieving these goals because I know my risks are well calculated.

My life is currently different from how it was four months ago because l am able to buy my personal property comfortably without depending on my parents as l used to do before. I am also able to prioritize my need and make decision on what to spend on. I feel very responsible and motivated to work hard and have a better future.

My new goal in the next four months is to improve my already running poultry keeping project by adding more poultry. I am planning to extend my poultry project because I would like to get enough income that will enable me afford my College fees thereby relieving my parents from the burden of having to pay school fees for my other siblings and my college fees.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that l no longer depend on my parents in order to buy my personal things as I used to do before, because I now have my own money that I can spend. I have learnt to be more responsible in that when I get money I always spend it wisely to achieve my goals. I am very happy that GD has given me an opportunity to be able to, prioritize my need and make decisions on how to spend. very sure with the savings. If I manage to complete my course I will be able to look for employment and I belive through employment life will better.

In the next six months I expect to have joined college and continuing with my education with out being worried about how to pay my college school fees. My poultry farming will also have picked up and I will be able to pay my college fees without any struggle.

These tranfers have changed my life over the past four months because they have made me much more independent as I am now able to do much more projects on my own without having to depend on my parents as I did before. Recently I managed to lease a piece of land to farm which I am sure will give me more returns in the next few months. Together with a few other projects that I have been able to do over the last few months, I know that very soon, I will have to entirely quit depending on hard labour jobs because I will have better sources of income.

I want to use my next two transfers to buy 50 chickens to start me off on the chicken project that I will launch soon. I have been planning to start such a project ever since I bumped into a friend who is reaping out of such a business and gave me a few tips and encouragement to try it out while I still have no formal employment.

Ever since I completed college, I have not been successful in landing formal employment which has forced me to turn to casual jobs which are mostly unavailable. This always leaves me with lot of time in my hands making me quite idle. I have never been the lazy type and staying idle was not the best part of my days. Over the last few months, I have been engaging in useful projects during my free times, all thanks to the transfers which have given me the opportunity to fund them. I have been busier at my farm which I leased using the tranfers and putting up the chicken pen for my upcoming chicken project. This has left me with not time to idle around and I am a happy man.

I expect that in the next six months, I will have opened my own egg depot where I will distribute the eggs and chickens from the chicken project I am currently putting together. This will mean a much better source of income for me compared to the current casual farm jobs that I depend on yet earns me just peanuts. My prayer is financial stability which I hope will be witnessed in the next six months.

My life is currently different from how it was four months ago because l have manage to complete my secondary school without any school fee arrears.

My new goal for the next four months is to start a barbershop where l be getting money and saving it for my collage fee.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that l have managed to pay my school fee throughout my fourth year without depending on my parents or my farm produce.

In the next six months l expect to have started my business of barbershop and saving for my collage fee.

I will want to start a business to boost in my income

I have my own money and I don't ask for pocket money from my parents and I am in school studying in peace. I have not been sent home again for school fees.

I will want to clear up my school fees balance and start up a business to help boost my income.

Before I received this transfer, I am always being sent home for school fees since my parents were unable to pay in time but since I received the money, I am in school and studying in peace.