I thank Give Directly for coming into my life because it has really changed my life. I am proud to testify that my children are now eating well and I am also able to pay their school fees with less the less difficulty in paying school fees for my son.

My additional goal for the next four months is to expand my welding business by opening another branch in a different area. I thought of it because it's an additional source income Secondly, it is easy to manage so long as I have a few people to help me with the work.

The biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer is that I have been investing my transfers in farming. In the last season, I bought fertilizer and hybrid seeds that I planted. I also hired a few people from my village to help me with the farm work. I thank God through Give Directly, I managed to get a bumper harvest. We have enough food and also surplus to exchange for money. We have enough food to feed our family. I am also paying school fees for my children with a lot of ease and on time, they are also very happy because they are no longer sent home for fee balances unlike before.

I am working extra hard to raise capital to put up a home. I believe having a home is a good thing and even your age mates respect you. There is a lot of freedom when you are in your home moreso in decision making.

My life is different because I finally moved away from doing small scale farming to large scale farming. I am now able to purchase hybrid fertilizers and seeds which are known to be yielding high returns at the end of the season. I am now sure of getting high yields at the end of every season as compared to the few bags of maize which I used to harvest in the past.

I want to have dispaly samples at my workshop but the most difficult part of getting the samples is getting the raw materials that are used to build the items. Some of those raw materials are very expensive and purchasing them may need a lot of money which I currently do not have.

The biggest difference is that the monthly cash transfers have helped me a lot in opening a new workshop where I operate from very comfortably. I managed to save some cash which played a great role in making my dreams of owning a workshop come true. I used the money to buy tools such as welding machine, grinder, and vice machine

Since this is the job I have a passion for, I know that it will not take me a long duration before I open a new branch where I will be operating. Once I have a new branch, it will also offer an employment opportunity for other young guys who are willing to learn and earn a living from the job.

When I started receiving these tranfers, I decided to invest some of them in poultry farming. This has project grew over the last few months and I was able to sell some of the chicken and raised enough money to buy a goat. I consider this as growth and hope that someday, the goat will give a bigger return.

I am currently planning to enlarge my chicken project by making it more business oriented. I am currently enlarging the chicken pen and will soon bring in layers. I want to be an egg-supplier in my area because I noticed there isn't any within the village and people must travel long distances to collect their supplies.

Life was a bit tough before because of little income due to lack of jobs within the village. With the projects that I was able to start using these transfers, I have an extra source of income and I don't get as broke as before even when there are no jobs. I can sell some of my chickens to raise money whenever I am in dire need of money.

I am working hard to ensure that in the next six months, my chicken project is up and running. I hope that the money I will be making from egg-supply will change my life by enabling me to open another business(Welding workshop) Which requires more money to set up. With that workshop open, I know that all my financial problems will be solved because it is a very lucrative business that will be earning me money.

My life is currently different from how it was four months ago because l now have my own cattle, that l can also be accounted among the reach.

My new goal is to start poultry farming as my investment.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that l now have my own cattle that l can sell when l have any emergency.

In the next six months l expect to have started saving for my project of putting up my home.

I am planning to build a house and buy livestock.

My life is currently different from how it would have been had I never received the transfer in that I am able to feed my family and this was a challenge before.

In the next six months I will have build my family a new house where all my family members will be able to feel comfortable in.

The biggest difference in my daily life since I started receiving payments from Give Directly is I am able to pay school fees on time.