My ability to farm has greatly improved from how it was four months ago. I invested better in farming using the money I received from GiveDirectly. Unlike the previous planting season , I bought certified maize seeds and planted them. Usually, I use maize seeds that are not from seed companies that contributed to heavy crop failures as they were completely destroyed by a disease. My current crop is well established and looks better than the previous one with no single one of them showing signs of disease attack. I know I will harvest thi time round. Food for my family will be in plenty and also income from selling part of the harvest.

I plan to buy a cow using the money that I am going to received from my merry go round group in the next four months. I will do this so that I get to produce milk. This will be a good additional income that I am sure is more stable than the one from construction work.

The biggest difference in my daily life is in food sufficiency inmy family. My job in house construction is not reliable as it is not available all the time. The money form GiveDirectly cushions me when I fail to find work on certain days of the month. I helped me over the last two months during which no construction work went on in the village because parents were focusing on paying school fees as children resumed the term. All my clients' construction projects were halted and this meant that nothing came to my pockets. I thank God that I always put aside apart of money from GveDirectly for such rainy days.

I expect the money I received to have improved my life. I will have a dairy cow that will make me a stable source of income. Using the money from my merry go round group, I will look for a mature cow that will immediately begin milk production. I also expect to have a bumper harvest because my maize farm is doing so well at the moment. In the next six months, food and income shall be incoming from this investments that are only possible because of the transfer.

Before, I did not have anything to call my own since we used to live from hand to mouth; I could not save anything from the meagre earnings that I got from working as a casual laborer. Right now, I rear my own chicken and I am able to pay school fees without so much struggle unlike before where my children would be sent from school fees.

In the next few months, I am planning to top up the transfers that i receive using money from other sources and buy a dairy cow for rearing.

For the past few months, I was able to save some of the transfers that I receive and I was able to buy some chicken for rearing. The chicken are old enough to lay and from the eggs that they give, I am able to sell for an extra income for the family.

My expectation is that we would be living a better and improved life more than we are now. My children should be able to have enough and healthy food for them. I also expect my children to study well since I hope I will be able to cater for their school feees well on time.

My life currently different since my family never lack food.

The only goal I now have is to buy a piece land.

The biggest difference in my daily life is happiness.

I expect my life to change in that I will have bought some chicken and will also be in the process of buying a piece of land.

The new goals which I now have is to increase the size of farm I lease so as to increase my farm produce which will help me in paying of school fees and in feeding the cows.

My life is currently different since I did not sell my maize any more in order to pay school fees for my children.

I am expecting my life to change since I will have been able to lease a farm and plant maize and beans which will increase my produce.

My life has changed since my children were not sent back home to fetch school fees and I did not also sell my maize to pay for their school fees.