Since I am a farmer and this exercise flows in my blood, I have dedicated all my energies to doing subsistence farming. I have planted vegetables which I am very sure that in three months' time, they will be ready for harvesting. It is from the proceeds that I intend to buy a calf that will benefit my family in a number of ways. One of which is provision of milk. This will really save me a lot of money resources and therefore channel it to other activities.

The biggest difference in my daily for the last four months is that I no longer spend many hours on people's farms doing casual labor. Life has been tough on our side since we have a family which needed to feed but unfortunately, we did not have otherwise. When the transfers came, it gave us a leaning shoulder and we were able to acquire land of our own where we have planted crops and they are really doing well. Nowadays, I spend most of the time on the farm, weeding and cultivating them since I know that this will be of help to my family, food-wise.

I still have to offer casual labour, though on reduced occasions. This is because I now have my pieace of land to cultivate and therefore dedicate some time to it. In the next six month's I expect to be fully working on my land. I also intend to expand on it since farming is the only way of livelihoods in our regions.

I am an employed woman who majorly depends on farming to meet household daily needs but due to lack of ownership of the small size of my piece of land given to us by our father, casual jobs had been my alternative source. I had worked tirelessly in my neighbours' tea farm to be able to provide for my family and since my wages had been too low, I had been so stressed not knowing when could it be enough for my young family. Spending my energy in other peoples land was a big problem that always lowered my self-esteem but to put a meal on my family table I had no other option but to go for. My life is currently different from how it was four months in that I have been empowered to do my own and this my happiness now that I spend my energy to build my household. I have been able to hire a piece of land from a neighbour where I freely practise short season crop farming which has improve the availability of food in the household and also more income through the sales of the surplus.

I am currently doing better in farming hence have enough food for my household and surpluses to sell. In the next four month, Ithe new goal I have for my life is to start a saving plan that will help me accumulate money that in the near future I can add to what I get from farming then use it to buy a cow that will support in milk production for household use and sale hence improve my sources of income.

Agriculture particularly crop farming is my back borne source of income in my family. I live in a small piece of land that is under the ownership of my father hence I lack the free practice of farming. I have grown tea bushes in most part of my land and since it is not mature enough to earn me an income, daily household needs and other financial needs in my family has been challenging. The biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months is the efforts that monthly transfer has given me in farming since currently, I have been able to lease pieces of land from my neighbors where I practice different short season crop farming using modernized mechanism by employing machines, hybrid seed and artificial fertilizer among other farm inputs that have boosted my production. I have had enough food for my family in the last four months hence little to spent on food and surplus product to sell to meet other family needs unlike before when I had to strive too much on casual jobs that could not even support my daily household needs.

In the next six months, I expect my life to have greatly improved in that I will not be spending as much as I do currently since my farming will have improved hence will have better products. I expect to have enough food and surpluses to see to meet other financial needs in my family. I expect to have gotten enough money to buy a cow that will always be my proud to own it.

Before, whenever I got some visitors I would dash to my neighbor to get some utensils for serving my guests. Now I thank God for GD as part of the money which I received I spent it to buy some utensils. Currently, I so happy that I got new cups and now I no longer get them from my neighbour. Also, I got enough sufurias(aluminium cooking pot) that I shouldn't worry when I got some guest as I can cook comfortably with my own utensils.

My new to buy a heifer so when it matures I will get some milk for family use and for sale. For quite some time now I have been spending a lot of money buying milk regularly. I believe when I got a cow I will save the cash I which I would have spent on buying milk and spend it on buying other family basic commodities.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I no longer frequently sought casual jobs to get money to meet my family needs. I have always been worried about providing for my family since if I could struggle to pay school fee for my children. the time that I would rather spend working on other peoples farm I can now spend on my own farm. Currently, I have some maize which I expect that in the near future I would not be buying food like maize.

I spent some money to buy maize seedlings which I planted and my crops are now doing so well. I expect that in the six months, I will be having maize for consumption and that I wouldn't be spending more money on buying food. I believe that the money which I will be getting from other sources I will be spending on buying other foodstuff which is not being produced directly from my farm.

My life currently is different from how it was four months ago, this is because our household goods and farming implements which we never had are now available and whenever we have some work to do it without having to go around the village borrowing.

The only additional goal i have and have been really praying for is to one day use the savings from Give Directly to buy a heifer.

My life has really improved and I am doing things currently at ease, in the case of farming we currently do it independently without having to form a combined farming with the neighbors.

I expect my life to change in the next six months in that would have gotten the capital which would enable us pick on a serious farming and by then our farming would have really improved a great deal and it will be possible that I would have purchased the heifer I have been hoping to own.

My new goal that i wish to achieve is to buy a dairy cow.This will help me reduce my daily expenses because i will not buy milk any more.

I have a good stock in my shop than previous time,this leads to high sale and i get more money in a day compared to when i dint have the transfer.

In the next six months, i will want to built a new house and this will change my life a lot because my family will be more comfortable and happy.

The transfer helped me to reduce the struggle that i have been going through to get 300 shillings per day.I was able to do a bulk shopping for the whole month .I have a good stock of food.