Currently, I can easily access money every day for our day-to-day upkeep. I can buy school uniforms and pay school fees for my children who in turn gets to study hard and pass exams as they are hardly sent home to clear any outstanding fee balances. I was also able to pay casual workers to till my farm with the transfers. I have very big farms, which I am not able to cultivate on my own. I solely depend on farming to provide for my family and with the transfers, I have been able to expand my farming by employing extra manpower to till the large farms which in turn yields more harvest. We can sell the surplus to earn income and also consume some to nourish our health.

I do not have any new goal as I still wish to save more and want to save and buy livestock for rearing which will act as the financial security of the family.

The biggest difference in my daily life in the past four months is that my child is in school right now. I was able to clear any outstanding school fee balance for the term and my child has had ample time studying without necessarily worrying about being sent home to pay the arrears. I can easily pay school fees now and buy stationery which enables the child to excel in the studies.

I expect to save and venture into livestock rearing by buying livestock like goats and sheep to help in increased income for the family. I am also looking into buying building materials like sand and cement to use in plastering my house which is mud smeared. I look forward to owning a beautifully plastered house that would be the envy of the entire village.

Currently, I have a lot of ease and peace of mind as I worry less about where to get the school fees for my child. My mental health is also improved as I receive the transfers monthly and can settle the most important bills like paying my child's school fees on time. Previously, I used to be so much stressed about this. It has given me a chance to feed my family well as I can buy food with the little income I earn from casual work.

My son is bound to sitting for his final exams and I use the transfers to pay for his school fees so I do not have any new goal as I want to concentrate on payment of the fees.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have been paying school fees for my child using the transfers without a struggle. I earn so little from my casual that can only cater for our food and at times there is no work and I end up earning nothing for the day. GiveDirectly has eased the burden of hustling up and down to raise school fees for my child while looking for money for their upkeep.

I look forward to venturing into livestock farming to help raise income for the family. I expect to buy goats for rearing as financial security. I want to have a reminder of how good GiveDirectly has been to me.

My life is currently different from how it was four months ago in that, I don't have to operate my business every day but take-offs from at times so as to do other activities like farming and poultry keeping which I could not concentrate on so much. Nowarday i even have time for myself just to rest.

My new goal is to buy stationery for my son who is in his final class since being that education is the key to success, I really want him to have all the materials that are required for his studies.

Taking a loan from the merry-go-round was an obvious thing to me and at times, I could be forced to use profits from my business so as to educate my firstborn son. All this could be stressful especially when I was required to repay the amount. Right now, this has changed and so far it is the biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months because I managed to pay his school fees easily and he has settled well in school.

I expect my life to change in the next six months in that, I will have managed to cement my house so as to look decent. I also want to avoid smearing which is normal hectic. I will have also paid people to prepare my parcel of land which simply means working on a bigger area unlike tilling by myself for a lesser piece .

I have a new goal of plastering my house. It is so dusty and harbours a lot of pests.

My life is currently from the way it would be if I did not receive the money in that had I not receive the money I would be having debts because I would borrow money for buying my son's school requirement.

I expect to have a plastered house in the next six months.

The biggest difference in my daily life since I started receiving the money is that I bought some poultry for rearing with part of the money and this is something I have longed for in my life. Seeing them grow is my happiness and gives me hope of having more poultry in future which I can sell in time of need.