My life is currently different from the way it was four months ago in that I'm now happy and independent. This has greatly reduced conflicts between me and my spouse. We used to argue a lot because my husband felt I was a burden. I didn't have a reliable source of income thus I had to rely on him for everything. He reached a point he got tired and frustrated about everything. I am glad all these have reduced and we are now a happy family. Nowadays we can sit together and make plans as a family.

Currently, I'm in the process of cultivating and plowing my farm. Most of the money I'll be receiving from Give Directly will be directed towards paying of labor and purchasing of farm inputs. Therefore, for the next four months, I am planning to save my transfers to ensure I have enough money. This will help me to successfully carry out all the stages of planting and harvesting my plants.

The last four months were the toughest months of my life. This was the period when I didn't get a good harvest so I had to work hard and ensure I had enough food for my family. I'm glad through the transfers I got from Give Directly I was able to buy enough sacks of maize that would last us up to the next planting season. I have also saved some money that will be helping during the plowing process thus I will avoid the challenges that led to the low harvest that I experienced last season.

Currently, I rely on farming as the main source of income but whatever I get from it is spent on food for the family. I'm, therefore, planning to start a business. In the next six months, I will be saving the transfers from GiveDirectly and ensure that I have enough capital to help me start a meaningful business that will supplement what I am already getting from farm produce.

Having a business and a stable source income has given me a great sense of independence which I am really enjoying. The fact that I can have money for the basic requirements in the house without having to beg my husband for money is the greatest feeling I have ever had. The business has also kept me busy and given me less time to idle around.

I know that the transfers will soon come to an end and I wish to make sure that my business is stable by then, therefore, I will use my transfers from the following month to boost it by adding more stock and bringing in more products that I currently don't sell. This is to ensure that after the transfers are over, I don't go back to my previous life of languishing in poverty without any decent meals and always having to wait on my husband to provide for the family.

With the help of these transfers, I was able to start a small business which can now provide me with a daily income to support my family without having to solely depend on my husband. Before that, I always looked up to my husband to provide for daily needs which was quite frustrating because he felt that the money I received monthly from GD would be enough to take care of the family needs for the whole month which was not the case.

I have not yet managed to construct a shop to sell my products and am still using my house as the shop because they are not much and they still comfortably fit in my house. I expect that in the next six months, the business will have grown and produced enough profits to allow me to construct a shop in a more visible area where I can have more customers.

Currently, my life is different than it was before because, with the transfers, I have managed to acquire seeds and fertilizers from the one-acre fund in time which I shall use for my farming activities. Four months ago, I had little savings thus I did not use fertilizers, a situation that made me to get less harvest.

In the next four months, my additional goal is to build up my savings and spend them on starting up a new business. From the business, my household will be able to generate some income thus we shall be able to supplement our income. This will be a good investment in my life that will greatly support my family in the future.

In the last four months preceding the current transfer, the biggest difference in my daily life is ploughing my piece of land on time. In the past, it could take me a long time to fully prepare my piece of land for planting. I, therefore, believe that from it, I shall be able to obtain a good harvest hence have sufficient food to sustain my family.

In the next six months, I expect to have a bumper harvest from my farm. I have prepared it on time and I believe that if there is adequate rain during this season, it will do well than it had done before. In addition, I expect to start up a shop from which I shall earn additional income for my household.

The difference is that I am capable of buying food easily without necessarily taking loan.

I have ni new goals.

The biggest difference is that I am able to work on my projects without necessarily depending on my husband.

I the next six months I will have purchased several building materials towards building my family.

I have a new goal of starting up a retail business so that I can have a stable income since currently, I have been relying on farming.

My life is currently different from the way it would have been if I did not receive the money in that we now have peace in the family. This is because I no longer have to ask my spouse for money which was bringing a lot of conflicts between us especially when he did not have anything to offer.

In the next six months, I expect to have built my home because in our community it is a custom.

The biggest difference in my daily life since I started receiving the money from GiveDirectly is that I'm now independent and I do not have to ask my spouse for money every time.