My new goal is to plaster my house. I would not want to build another house again hence I plan to plaster it to make it more stable to serve me for long. I fear if I do not plaster it, very soon the strong winds in my area will weaken it and it will collapse.

GD transfers have transformed my life in a way I did not know could happen. In my marriage life, I used to depend on my husband to provide for most of the family's needs. He used to send me money every month just like GD and at that time, I did not use to work hard. Since he died, I have been involved in hard labor to earn a living until GD came to my life. It reminded me of my late husband. Life is better with the transfers because I do not struggle anymore to make ends meet.

In the next six months, I want to improve my harvest by planting using modern farm inputs such as hybrid seed and fertilizers. I am planning to use part of my transfers to buy the farm inputs which I know will help me get better harvest than the 3 sacks I have been getting every month. When I have enough harvest, I will have enough food for my family and even sell the rest to raise income for other family needs.

It has always been my dream to start rearing livestock on my farm. It was just unfortunate that since my husband died about eight years ago, I have not been able to actualize this dream considering that I only rely on the meager income from farming to gather for my basic needs. Currently, the biggest difference in my daily life is that I have been able to save part of the transfer through a merry go round and supplemented the sales from my farm produce and bought a paged dairy cow. The milk produced by this cow shall double up my source of income after selling some of the surplus produced.

My new goal in the next four months is to continue saving money through the merry go round that I have been taking part in within the village. I intend to use these savings to buy a solar lantern for lighting at night and bring an end to the costly fuel that I normally use as a source of light.

I harvested very little yields from my farm recently and this forced me to borrow from my neighbors. This is because I could not employ modern farming methods on my farm nor plant hybrid seeds with fertilizers. I could not do this considering that I depend on meager income that is hardly enough to sustain my family. Today, the passion of being a successful farmer has been rejuvenated considering that within a span of three months, I have been able to buy the required farm inputs such as fertilizers and save enough money to pay casual laborers on my farm. This has enabled me to cultivate my farm in time and ensure that I have a maximum yield on my farm. The biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months is that this harvesting season I got nine bags of maize contrary to last year when I had only one bag.

I expect that in the next six months I shall have invested more time and resources to invest more time and resources in raising livestock and chicken in small scall. In envision making more income through selling their by-products such as milk and eggs. With, the doubled income I shall have ease in meeting most of my family's needs. At the same time, enrolled in two more saving table banking groups because I have learnt the importance of saving.

Life is currently different from how it was four months ago because I can manage to pay someone to help me with farm labor unlike how I used to do the work all by myself which made me prepare my parcel of land late. I am hopeful to get a good harvest at the end of this season because I bought hybrid seeds and worked on my farm on time when the rain shall be enough and promising.

My new goal in the next four months is to save money in the Merry go round that we started after being GiveDirectly's beneficiaries.With the savings, I will buy decent chairs that my in-laws can seat on when they come to visit. This is because the ones I have now are old and not decent enough which my late husband bought.

I have been engaging in a lot of farming which is what has been feeding my family for a very long time. One thing I like about farming is that you can never go hungry so long as you take good care of your crops. In as much as there has little rain so far, I am glad that the crops are doing quite well and I can always earn something from them with assistance from GiveDirectly transfer. This is the biggest difference in my daily life for the last four months.

Expect my life to change in the next six months in that I shall have bought new decent sofa set seats which my in-laws will sit on when they come to visit. Achieving this goal will be a fulfilment to me because I have had this dream for a longer time and because of the lack of money it seemed unachievable.

LIfe is currently different from how it was four months ago because I can manage to pay someone to help me with farm labor unlike how I used to do the work all by myself until I ended up hurting myself due to overworking. I am hopeful to get a good harvest at the end of this season because I bought better farm inputs and did land clearance early enough.

I am planning to buy chairs in my house because the ones I am having at the moment are very old and do not look beautiful. In the next four months, I would have saved enough from my monthly transfers to buy beautiful chairs for my guests to sit on when they come visiting.

The biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer is that I have managed to buy a cow which I have always longed to is have. I am optimistic that very soon I will be milking my cow and would be no longer taking black tea as I did in the past. I will also be collecting its dung to use as manure on my farm.

In the next six months, I expect to have enrolled my son to a college to take auto mechanics which has always been his dream since he was young. This will enable him to have his own profession such that he wont be doing casual labor in peoples farm as I do. I am also expecting to start buying materials for building my new house. I live in a small house which cannot accommodate my guests, especially at night when they come visiting.

My life is now different because I am able to pay school fees in a very easy manner than how I used to struggle before. My farm products have also increased in the recent past due to the use of modern fertilizers.

I now have a plan of taking my son to an institution of higher learning. I also want to buy new steel windows and steel doors for my house.

I have been able to farm in a manner that I have never been able to do before. In addition to that, I have managed to make so much savings in the recent past.

I expect my life to change because I will be in a position to sort my financial needs in addition to starting up a small scale business in the near future.

My new goals currently includes the following: I now want to plaster my house and do other major repairs of my house. I also want to build a new house for my son Ben.

My life is currently different from how it used to be before because initially I was not able to make proper plans because I had no money.

I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I am now able to budget and buy my items as per when I need them.

The biggest difference in my life is that I am now able to take care of my needs without having to get loans from other people.