My new goal for the next four months is to buy a heifer as a remembrance of the transfers I received from this organization. Since this help won't last forever, I thought a dairy cow would be the best way to invest this money because not only will I be getting milk for consumption but also earn income by selling the surplus. The cow will also be reproducing and with no time my cowshed will be full.

The biggest difference in my life in the last four months preceding the current transfer is that I no longer strain much looking for additional cash. Through the transfers I got from Give Directly, I was able to improve my farming by purchasing enough farm inputs. For the first time since I started farming, I was able to incorporate other crops such as cabbages among other vegetables. This greatly boosted my income since I was able to satisfy different customer needs.

In the next six months, I believe that my life will have greatly improved. Since I was able to use all the required farm inputs, I believe I will have a bumper harvest. In addition to that, I will have purchased the dairy cow hence increase my livestock assets. With these two investments, I will no longer struggle to do low paying casual jobs. I can comfortably sustain myself with sales from both my dairy project and my farming activities

My life is currently different from how it was four months ago in that I am currently an empowered farmer. I have been able to do more mechanized farming unlike before hence improving my returns which in turn gives me better living standards in terms of access to basic needs. With the help of monthly transfers from GD, I have been able to pay my children school fees on time hence giving me a peaceful mind and also humble time for my children to study. I have been able to save money through merry go round that I joined after I started receiving the monthly transfer from GiveDirectly and am certain that with the lump sum money I am going to receive will help me boost my goal of starting a business to bring in more income to my family to better our lives.

In the next four months, I will have harvested and sold my crops hence I will have money that I will use to start my new goal of livestock broking to help me generate more income within a short time to meet the ever-rising household needs with most pressing being my children fees.

I am an ambitious father who majorly depends on farming to provide for my family and always see a happy family. I have children in various schools and other family needs to take care and since farming is my backbone source of income I always mind my farming practises right from land preparation to harvesting. I majorly practise short season crop farming mainly cabbages and tomatoes to enable get money within a short time for my family needs. I had always found myself doing outdated kind of farming and always lacking behind since I had little resources to mechanise my farming hence I had low returns. The biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months is the efforts that I have gained from my monthly transfer to do more mechanised farming. I have been able to improve my ways of land preparation by using farm machines, use better quality seeds fertilizer, and agrichemicals to help me in safeguarding my crops from pest and weeds hence assuring me of better returns unlike before that will help me meet my immediate, household, and children education and get something better to save or invest in other in goals.

In the next six months, I expect to have started a business hence will have a secondary and a better source of income which will change my life positively in that access to household needs and my children school fees will be easier. I expect to have either gathered building materials or to have already started to build a new, more decent house which will be my happiness and hope of better living standards of my family.

My current life is different from how it was four months ago because I can now pay school fees for my three children comfortably. Initially, I used to struggle to pay school fees even for one child because I used to earn peanuts from my casual jobs.

The new goals in my life for the next four months is to start a new business. I have always desired to start cattle rearing and selling them for profit. This is a business I observed from my late father and he really succeeded in it. I want to emulate him so that I succeed like him.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that there has been an increase in the output of my vegetables and tomatoes because of the input I have used on farming. I've resorted to planting more vegetables because I have the resources and time.

I expect my life to change in the next six months for the better because we have ventured into a merry go round which I will eventually buy a new farm when my turn comes. This will enable me to do more farming and to buy cattle because my wife intends to venture into the selling of milk.

When i got this transfer my children are so happy that when they need any amount of money from school they do not wait for so long since i save the transfer for them.

I am planning to start a business of selling cows to get money.

This transfer changed my life since i no longer go on debts unlike before when i had no option.

I am planning to expand my farming to by leasing big land to farm.

My new goal that I have planned after receiving the transfers is to build a new house since my current house is old fashioned. I am thinking of building a brick house

My life currently is different in that I do not have to struggle much to get money for my family needs as compared to before receiving the transfers as it was really hard.

I expect my life to change in the next six months since with the transfers that I will get every month, I will be able to diversify my resources hence this will bring happiness not only to me but also to my family

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am generally happy because from the merry go round that we formed, when it reaches my turn, I will have enough money to be buy a dairy cow. This will in turn increase the number that I have currently as well as increase milk production