In the next four months, I hope to have bought seats for my house. For a very long time, I have not been in a position to buy new seats for my newly built house. The money has never been enough. Its shame having a house without seats. This would be my next goal that I expect to achieve in the next four months.

The biggest difference in my daily life so far is that I have been actively participating in merry go contribution which is the best way which we thought will help us pool funds together. Through this initiative, I have already bought a cow. For many years, I have been keeping people's cows which would be taken away every time it has calved, therefore leaving us behind salivating for the milk. Buying the cow has given me happiness for I am sure that as I keep other people's cows, I will also be keeping mine and as they calve, mine will be included. Milk provision would mean that my children would never lack when it comes to diet balancing.

In six months' time, my wish of furnishing the house with seats would have come through. Having a house without seats is even a hindrance to guests' invitation because of the shame that one would feel for not having such basic assets. I hope that this is going to be successful.

My life is currently different from how it was four months ago in that I have gotten the time to work on my own farm. This has enabled me to have food for the family from my own farm rather than buying in the market. Before I could spend almost all day doing casual jobs to get the money to meet those basic needs.

My new additional goal for the next four months is to save money in the merry go round to enable me to buy sofa set seats. This will make me to frequently welcome visitors without shying off.

The biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer is that I started saving money in the merry go round group that we started immediately after the first transfer. I used my savings to buy a heifer. I had always wanted to own one but due to financial constraint, it was not possible. I'm so happy now. I have hope that when it reproduced I will have enough milk for my family and also sell the surplus to meet additional household needs and even to pay school fees for my children. This will make them not to be sent home to collect school fees.

I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will be in a position to buy all the required seeds and fertilizers to use on my farm from the money that I generate from the sales from my farm produce.

I have used apart of hee transfers top ay school fees for my child in secondary school. This is the greatest Joy that I get those days as another because my child is now acquiring an education that will is the only way to a good life in the future. I have a lot of hopes for my daughter. I was always unable to pay for them her but when the transfers started coming in, she began focusing on good grades and told me that she is going to join a university to take a degree. I believe her because she now has ample time at school and being the brightest, I know she will make us proud at the end by producing very good results. I also own livestock which is already a financial development that I am happy about.

I have a plan to improve my home by buying seats. I have a house that is too void. I often have to borrow some whenever I have even some few guests. I am planning to buy a 5 seater to solve the problem and save me the embarasment.

The biggest difference in my daily life is having savings in a merry go round group. I have been saving part of the transfer every month in order to own livestock. This is could not have have been possible because I am a small scale subsistence farmer and is mainly a housewife. I am charged with taking care of the farm and the animals which make it hard to venture into businesses. Income from what I do is too low to save and so am lucky to be in this program. It has become possible to save in order to ensure my children get a good education. I will use the money to pay school fees which makes me happy knowing that they will get an education and a better future than mine.

In the cumming six months, I expect my life to have changed because I will have improved my home. I will also have increased the land I farm by leasing a parcel that will be used to produce maize. The crop will be for my family consumption. Having more land means I will be more food secure.

My life is currently different because I am financially free. I can afford seeds for planting crops such as maize like other people in our village. Earlier I couldn't due to lack of funds.

My new goal is to buy chairs. We have one wooden at the moment and I feel it is a pressing need for us.

My life is now better. I have a calf that I am hopeful it will give us milk in future. Currently we buy milk but soon we will have our own. We formed a merry go round group to pull GiveDirectly funds together so as to buy something like a calf that we would otherwise not buy.

I expect to plant maize that will be enough for us for consumption and sale so as to cater for school fee for my children. It is such a disgrace and pain for anybody's children to stay home for lack of fee and even lack of clothing. People normally taunt us especially single mothers. I plan to work hard in farming to ensure the disgrace does not befall me and my children. I encounter bad-mouthing often and I dislike it. I plan to work harder and silence the mockers.

The biggest difference in my daily life is happiness which I now have since I have bought a cow.

I expect my life to change in that I will have bought some chairs and a sheep.

My life currently is different since I now have a cow like other people.

The new goals I now have is to buy sheep and some chairs since I do not have any.