I am growing old and actively attending to mt daily chores is slowly becoming challenging for me. In the next four months, the new goal I have for my life is to buy a water tank. I believe having one in my home will reduce my daily chores since will have clean water at my doorstep.

I primarily depend on farming to earn a living to support my family. Since farming is affected by weather and natural conditions crop farming is not reliable to depend on alone thus I practice mixed farming to reduce the risk. I always try to improve but my overwhelming daily household needs make it impossible to realize this. In the last four months, I have been injecting part of my transfers to my farming. This has brought the biggest change in my life since it has expanded it. I currently have healthy crops on my farm that I expect to earn an extra income that will enable me to meet my daily household needs with ease.

I expect a relaxed and better life in the six months since I believe I will have bought a water tank and I will have harvested my crops. Having clean water at my doorstep and enough food in my stores is all I foresee in the next six months thus I wouldn't be struggling much like today.

My goal for the next four months is to construct a small grocery shop closer to my home. This will not only create a ready market for my farm produce but also allow me to attend to my household chores as I run my business. I always go to the nearest market to sell my produce and at times I get rained on during the rainy season. This grocery shop will motivate me to keep on producing more for resale and at the end of the day, I will generate more income

Four months ago, I didn't have maize for consumption since the one I had previously harvested was already depleted. I used to spend a lot of cash to purchase. Currently, my budget has greatly reduced since, after the last harvesting season, I had a bumper harvest and so I no longer purchase for consumption. I now eat enough without having to sacrifice for the next day

My life will be way much better in the next six months because with the grocery shop, I will have a ready market for my produce. with the income I will generate, It will also help me boost my farming skill such that I will now afford to purchase how quality seeds and fertilizers. I will no longer depend so much on my children for upkeep

My life has changed in many ways over the last four months. This is mainly because of the easy access to farm inputs and cattle feeds especially the supplements and the acaricides for the livestock. Tick control on my farm has been regularly and very efficiently done because I bougt the acaricides at the beginning of every mont. taking care of my vegetable crops using pesticides and fungicides have also been possible on the required time. AS a result. My crops and livestock are very healthy and I hope for good production. This translates to more money when I sell the crop that I am planning to use in paying school fees for my children and addressing my daily family needs. Another difference ib my kife is the fact that I have managed to provide sufficiently to my family as I buy food in bulk to meet my families monthly need.

The next goal that I am working on for the next four months is to build a small shop where I will use it as a grocery outlet. Being a vegetable farmer. I would like to have my own grocery business so that I will be selling the products directly at the farm gate.

The biggest difference in my life is the abundance of the ability to grow many crops on my farm. I have used the money to buy tomato carrots and cabbage seeds unlike before when I could not afford them but was always planting maize for subsistence that would always fail me in terms of production. Tomato carrot and cabbage seeds were out of my reach because they are more expensive and require more inputs than maize farming. However, these crops are more profitable. Dealing in them has really made me very hopeful for higher gains from farming. I also bought insecticides and fungicides to protect my crops on the farm right on time. I am managing the farm very well unlike before when I could lack some inputs. This time I look forward to a bumper harvest.

I will be having a grocery outlet to sell my vegetable produce at the farm gate. I will be able to make more money from the farming initiative instead of selling the crops to traders at lower prices than if I sell them directly to consumers. This grocery business will give me a very interesting occupation and enable me to earn an income that will be good progress in my finances.

My life is currently different in that I can now plan ahead unlike before. We fail to plan not because we have no good plans but because we lack resources that can help us plan and put into action whatever plans we may have. I have also been able to improve my farming practices by being able to buy hybrid seeds and applying fertilizers to my farm hence increasing the produce from my farm. Increase in farm produce has and will see us get enough food for the family and selling of the surplus will add us additional income that can be used to meet other family expenses.

One of the additional goals that I have and is first in my priority list is to restock my shop. I have a shop that can generate more income for the family if it is put into good use. This will also make me fully self employed as I will be the one operating it.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I can now have a balanced diet with my family consistently. We have also had more income for the family within the past few months. This is as a result of the increase in income generating activities that came about as a result of additional income that we got from GiveDirectly transfers.

In the next six months, I expect to have a fully operational kiosk that is up and running. Through this, we will be able to get enough money to pay school fees for my grand children and meet other family expenses.

My life is different now as compared to the last four months since initially, I wasn't participating in a merry-go round which I currently do. This has enabled me to pool cash resources together and it enabled me to construct the kiosk.

My new goal that I wish to accomplish in my life for the next four months is to ensure I stock my kiosk. This will have a great impact in my life since I will not only boost my income but also bring commodities closer to my neighbours and this will greatly cut distance covered to reach to the shopping centre

The biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months is that I am now happier because from the money I received from the merry-go-round, I used it to construct a kiosk with which I will be operating to earn an extra income

I expect my life to change in the next six months since with the income I get from the shop, I will use it to improve my farming by planting more crops hence more income to the family