In the last four months, I have been able to pay school fees for my children in school. This was my biggest burden which I really struggled to achieve because of my low income. Since I started receiving these transfers, I have been paying their arrears on a monthly basis which has helped me reduce the balance I had in school. I am glad my children are rarely sent home as compared to before the transfers.

In the next four months, I have a new goal of buying goats. I would want to invest in livestock because of their value increases and when they reproduce, I will have a number in my compound. I can be able to sell some to raise money to meet my needs without much struggles as before.

I have been planning to put up a decent house for the last two years but due to low income from farming, I have not been able to achieve the goal. I was giving up on putting up an iron-roofed house and was settling for a grass-thatched house. Grass thatched house was not my first priority but because I do not have the resources to put up an iron-roofed house, I was going to put up a grass-thatched one. Thank God for GD transfers which gave me a way out of building an iron-roofed house.

My life will change in the next six months in that I will be having livestock in my compound. I won't feel poor as I feel now because of the livestock. I would want to be in the same position as my fellows in the village.

I am a happy person now and I can confess that my life is easier. I can now easily get money to buy and do stuff that benefits my family without necessarily having to work twice as much to earn some little income that would only buy us a meal a day leave alone buy building materials to build a new house. That weight has been lifted off my shoulder and I cannot thank GiveDirectly enough for that.

I have a new goal of buying more poles and nails and also paying the contractor to build a new house.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have been able to buy more building materials that I plan to use in building the new house. I look forward to having a beautiful house that can see my family live in a comfortable house. My house is in a pathetic place which made me the laughing stock of the entire village as my peers have better modern, plastered houses to their names.

I shall have built the new house by then and it would be teh envy of the entire village. I will save more and sell my surplus harvest from the farm to generate more income for my family. This will change my life so much as I would have to hardly do casual work to generate income for my family, which is always tedious.

Coming up with the idea of building a new house was decision we decided as a family together with my wife because its something that we had desired to do in the past but due to financial constraints, we were never able to accomplish it. However, for the last four months, we have been so serious and the number of iron sheets that we have been buying has been increasing every single month.

I expect the next few months to be as good as the last few months. My plan for the next four months is still to buy more iron sheets until such a time when I accumulate them to forty new sheets. When that time comes, I will then decide to erect the new house which will be either a three or a four bed roomed house.

I have seen a lot of changes in my life but the most significant change for me is that I have been able to buy more than ten new iron sheets that I will definitely use to build a new house for my family. We have been combining efforts with my wife every month where each one of use saves part of the cash transfers we receive from the organization and that is why we have progressed so fast.

After building my new house, the new challenge will be to cement it which is like doing the final finishing touches. I will have to buy sand, cement and other materials that are required for such a process. I will ensure that this is done by making sure that we save some little cash together with my wife.

My life is currently different in that, I used to struggle to feed my family and my plans for the building new were slower but now the coin has flipped. My family feeds well and the building plans are moving on swiftly.

I have no new goals.

The biggest difference is that I am now capable of buying building materials comfortably every end month and I see my dream house coming to life.

I will have finished building a new house for my family and will be living comfortably with my family.

Currently I do not have any new goal.

At least I have a goat in my compound just like my neighbours and I have courage that my life will get better because of the money I will receive from Give Directly.

In the coming months, I would just want to add more goats in my compound.

I have been longing to have a goat in my compound but because I did not have enough money, I have not been able to buy one. Since GD came to my life, I have achieved my dream finally.