In the next four months, I intend to boost my fish business by adding to the stock. Besides that, I am as well thinking of venturing into livestock keeping. I have seen it being a lucrative business and a good way of saving in kind.

The biggest difference is that I have managed to boost my business, bought food for my household, and paid school fees. Previously, I depended entirely on my fish selling business which was not a guarantee that I would realize sales every day. On certain days I experienced losses and this would affect the business causing reduced revenues. When the business was down it meant that raising food and school fee was going to be tough. But GD has eased the burden and nowadays I am less worried even on bad business days.

In the next six months, I am positive that with the boost of the fish stock I will be moving more fish and making more profits. Besides that, I am hoping to have taken baby steps through the purchase of a few livestock towards livestock keeping as a major project soon.

I do not have any new goal at the moment because I spent my transfer to stabilize my small fish business. I have been doing this business for a while. It has been doing well and it was the major source of my livelihood, though it reached a time it was almost collapsing due to a lot of financial problems I was facing. I really thank Give Directly for having come for its rescue were it not for them it could completely collapse because I had no hope of getting any finances to revive it. I have been spending my transfer to boost my business thus this has really increased my daily income. I have more profits which enables me to comfortably meet my household needs

. The biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months preceding the current transfer is that I now have a stable business after investing part of my transfers on it. After investing part of my transfers on it I have been able to increase my profits which have made it easier to buy a well balanced diet for my family. I have hope that soon the business will continue growing and I have confidence that I will even stop taking items from our local store on credit to boost it. I will also avoid taking loans from the loaning groups in our village. I really want to thank Give Directly for having empowered us financially because it has strengthened most of us both socially and physically more so I, I am really motivated to work extra to improve my living standard together with my family.

I believe boosting my business will give me a better profit in the next six months. I have school-going children and whatever profit I get from my business will enable me to support them in terms of fee payment and also buying food. I will also stop doing the hectic casual jobs that pay very little wages unlike before.,

Currently, I do not have any finance-related stress. I am now more independent as I receive the transfers which I have invested in different areas that help in the generation of income for the family. One si livestock rearing which I was able to venture into

I wish to buy building materials that I plan to use in building a pit latrine as I don't have one.

Livestock rearing is often associated with a lot of prestige in our village. The community members who have raised livestock from time immemorial have unending wealth as they rely on their livestock financially during any constraints. With this in mind, I have always been determined to venture into livestock rearing to help my family generate income. The transfers have enabled me to fulfil this dream by buying a fleet that I am now rearing and that I can confess the biggest difference in my daily life in the past months.

At the end of the six months, I look forward to having a pit latrine in my compound. I shall have saved and bought the building materials required and built it.

I have managed to save and start a business which generates income for my family. We eat well, dress well and most of all I can pay school fees for my children with ease and they are not sent away from school to clear fee balances. Our living standards are so different from the previous one. Beforehand, we could go without food or take just a meal a day. This was due to the low income I earned from doing casual work. My energy levels were also so down as I would do tedious jobs with no proper food to eat.

I cannot really say I have any additional goal. I want to major my thoughts on the goals I had previously set so that they can come out perfectly.

The biggest difference in my life right now is that I saved the transfers and started a small business. The growth of this business has been so tremendous as I have been pumping more and more money into it. This has seen the profit margin rise and I can now get enough money to fend for my family and still invest some in the same business. It has also enabled me to fend for my family with a lot of ease. They eat well and healthily and also dresses in nice and beautiful clothes. I can go about doing my farm work with a lot of energy as I eat well too.

I want to save towards buying building materials i.e cement and sand that I want to use to finish building my house. I had built a house back then but it was smeared with mud which gave my children constant flu due to the dust. I also want to build a toilet as I do not have one and I am tired of using my neighbour's. I look forward to living in a clean, serene and beautiful house once I am done with the finishing.

I can now save towards painting my house. I even started up a business that earns income for my family.

I am planning to buy paint to paint my house.

I saved the money to start up a business which now generates my family some income hence change in lifestyle.

I am expecting to boost my business that is my main source of income. I shall have painted my house then and it will look more beautiful.

Currently, I am saving towards buying materials to build a kitchen,a toilet and plaster my house.I have managed to boost my business though not to the capacity I would wish it to be in.Lately, I am able to settle my hospital bills without having to borrow money from anyone and I can afford to eat healthy meals too.

I do have a new goal since I started receiving the transfers.I feel like I need to expand my business so that it can generate more income to help me in my family upkeep.

My life has changed because I can now save money from monthly transfers I receive from GD to buy building materials which I plan to use to build a kitchen,a toilet and plaster my main house.

I expect changes as I shall have built my kitchen, a toilet and plastered my house. My business shall have grown so big too and I believe it will generate enough income for family upkeep.

My new goal is to build a latrine because currently I don't have my own, I normally use my inlaw's.

My life is currently different from how it would have been if I never received the transfer in that, I could have been slashing my parcel of land on my own and this normally takes a longer time.

I expect my life to change in the next six months in that, I will have built a latrine hence the goverment official will not be on my neck anymore.

The biggest difference in my daily life since I started receiving payments is that, I managed to pay someone to slash my parcel of land hence I have done the work very fast unlike before which was a struggle.