I Being a farmer, I always strive to improve and mechanized my farming. In the next four months, my new goal is to expand my tea farming by planting more seedling in the piece of land I recently bought. I prefer this since once the are mature I will have a regular income from to support my family.

I recently harvested better yields I had planted using GD transfer. It has been long since I had such a good harvest and we always had to spend much on food that I could produce. I had wished for long to do my farming on time and more effectively to realize better yield but scarce resources never gave me a chance before. I currently have enough food to take my family to the next harvesting season. I am glad that I won't spend much thus have more income to put in other income-generating goals.

I am hopeful that in the next six months, my life will be better. I expect to have planted the tea seedlings in my new piece of land. Though they will not be matured to earn me an income, they will always be my hope of a better future. With the current harvest I have, I will not be spending much on food like before thus will have saved some money to put in other goals and support my family.

I had previously joined a merry go round with an aim to pool funds together with other villagers so that we can use it to improve our lives. I took a loan from our table banking scheme to buy a piece of land. I have been servicing this loan thus in the next four months I do not have a new goal but to continue serving it until I clear it.

I do farming to support my family. Even though I practice mixed farming, I prefer tea farming since it has a higher income in my area. I had a small piece of land that couldn't allow me to expand my tea farming. With my ambitious to expand this, I took a loan from a table banking we had started with other villagers to buy a piece of land. In the last four months, I have seen a great change in my life in that I have been servicing the loan with ease using my monthly transfer from GiveDirectly. I am hopeful that I will soon clear the loan thus gain full ownership of the land meaning I will be free to expand my farming on it. I have enjoyed the ease of collecting water using the donkey I recently bought. At first, It was quite engaging and tiring going for long-distance to collect water. I am happy this has hardship had been tremendously reduced by my donkey.

In the next six months, I expect to have cleared repaying a loan I took to buy a piece of land thus will be in full ownership of the piece of land. I believe this will relieve me of the monthly burden of serving it thus will have funds to invest in tea farming on my new piece of land. I expect to have bought a water tank in the coming six months to help me harvest clean rainwater for my household use.

My life is currently different from how it was four months ago in that, I have been able to buy a two acreage plot with the saving from the local table banking group which we formed at the start of receiving our transfers. For a while now we have been sharing a small of land with my brothers after in inheriting from our parents. Therefore, I am certain of enough harvest from the next planting season which will last as the whole year for my family's consumption after planting a bigger parcel of land that I recently purchased.

I do not have any additional goals for my life in the next four months at the moment since I tend to fully participate in our table banking group until the end of this phase. After that, I will resort to my long term goal of planting tea on my farm to make an extra income from the harvest by selling the mature leaves to the nearby factories.

I have built a new house for my family's comfort in terms of their habitation. Previously, my children used to be sleeping in our kitchen hence they had to wake up early so as to allow their mother to make breakfast. This really affected their time to rest hence they were not able to deliver during the day due to exhaustion that resulted from lack of adequate sleep. Therefore, having proactive children as a result of the new space they have acquired in our new house because they are sleeping without any distractions is the biggest difference in my daily life at the moment for last four months preceding the current transfers.

I expect my life to change in the next six months in that, I will not be buying maize flour and milk on a daily basis anymore. This is because, for the first time, I was able to plant maize on the farm I recently purchased. I am hopeful with this promising rain and the resources I have put in it with that harvests will be enough to last us till the next harvest. All in all I am glad since I will be able to save the money I have been constantly buying maize flour with when I have exhausted my farm produce for other pressing needs in my household.

My life is different now that I own a good house where I call home. Before I used to either avoid receiving visitors or when I do on the rare occasions, I was forced to request my neighbors to accommodate them because we did not have enough sleeping space. This has impacted negatively in our friendship with my neighbors since they thought I was burdening them with my issues. Nowadays I am peaceful as I no longer have worries of my house being blown away by wind or shyness of welcoming visitors.

My husband and I have decided to save some cash every month so that in the next four months, we will have accumulated enough money to buy a piece of land because the one we have is very small that it can not allow us to farm.

The biggest difference is that I now own a permanent house. Previously, we used to live in a leaking and overcrowded grass thatched house. when I started receiving Givedirectly's money, I made sure that I saved the money each and every month with aim of building a semi- permanent house. I so happy about it as I can sleep comfortably during rainy season.

The next six months, I believe I will have bought the land. This will help me do extensive farming and get enough food that will last my family for long and also save the money I would have been using to buy the food to use it to provide the best education to my children in the future.

I am totally supported by the transfer hence i do not have stress unlike before.

In the next four months i am planning to buy furniture for my new house.

I have a totally changed life since when i got the transfer,i have a new smart house for my family.

I am planning top lease a bigger land to practice serious farming to get enough food.

I have goal of building a house for my children and buy them bedding's and clothes since the house they currently sleep in is in a bad condition. I am also planning to look for a farm to lease and plant maize so that I will not be buying maize throughout the year.

My life currently is different since if I had not received the transfers, I would not have bought iron sheets for building my children a house.

My life will have changed since I will have finished building a house for my children and transformed my house to a semi- permanent one.

The biggest difference in my life is that my children have been able to eat and clothe well unlike before.