I am planning to plaster the walls of my household and add household furniture to beautify my house.

I am married, but I have an absentee husband who works in a faraway town. So most of the responsibilities are left on me. Before the transfers, I used to have a difficult time paying school fees for my children and getting meals for them. This changed, I did use the recent transfers to pay their school fees and after accumulation of the transfers, I have also built a kitchen that doubles up as a room for my adolescent sons who now require privacy.

My house will have been plastered and I will have added some household furniture and cleared my children's school fees. This will be my greatest joy even after been abandoned by my husband.

Currently, the biggest difference is that my children are able to stay in school unlike before when they were sent home on a monthly basis due to school arrears. Staying in school has greatly improved their performance. I will no longer feel embarrassed since my visitors will have comfortable seats to sit on as compared to before when the empty water containers served as seats.

My new goal for the next four months is to continue saving in the merry go round. I intend to use the savings to buy a dairy cow. In the future when it shall have reproduced, I will have milk and my children will drink as other children in the village. Therefore, they will no longer have to take porridge on a daily basis because can not afford to buy them milk.

I was a laughing stack in my village before because I could not afford to own a seat since the income I got from casual jobs could cater to my family's pressing needs. My husband who could assist stays with his mistress in town and he doesn't support us. When I had visitors I often felt very embarrassed because the empty water containers could serve as seats. The biggest difference in my daily life is that I bought a sofa set seat with the money I have been saving in a merry go round and it was my term to get these savings. I am very happy about the difference GiveDirectly has brought in my life.

I expect to buy decent clothes for my children in the next six months. I feel they walk naked because they wear old torn and shuttered clothes that lowers their self-esteem and dignity. I am looking forward to changing their living standards.

I have managed to construct a new kitchen where my children can now sleep unlike before when we all squeezed in my tiny house. Saving some of these transfers enabled me to buy the necessary materials for the construction which I am sure would not have been possible by myself. My children now have enough space t sleep which makes me feel proud as a mother.

My current goal is to clear my son's school fee balance for this year so that he would be sent away from school due to uncleared balances. I want him to concentrate on his studies and improve his general performance which had derailed last year due to the inconveniences of being sent home.

Having no source of income and only depending on casual jobs that usually don't pay much had always made it so hard for me to pay school fees for my son in high school. He would constantly be sent away from school due to delayed school fee payment which negatively affected his general performance in school. With the help of these transfers, I have always managed to pay his fees on time and happy that he has stayed in school fully through the entire term without being sent away.

My 18-year-old son is currently sleeping in my kitchen together with my other children which makes him very uncomfortable. I have plans of using the savings I have been making to construct him his own house. I hope that in the next six months, I will have cleared his school fees for the year so that I can focus on buying the materials for his house.

My life is currently a difference in that I am able to boost my business hence the profits have doubled. I now have good money to feed my family as well as buy clothes for them Unlike before where I could struggle so much to earn an income.

My new goal is to save some money to build a separate house for my son. Currently, we are living in our roof and traditional its a taboo to stay with a grown-up son. He will also have a place to study and do his assignments on time and reduce the inconvenience.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I used to cultivate a small piece of land due to lack of money to buy farm input and the produce from this was not enough to feed my family members. When I started receiving the transfer I had enough money to buy more inputs and this has enabled me to cultivate a bigger farm and the produce is now enough to feed my farm and my children are now happy and healthy than before.

I expect to have completed building a separate house for my son and he will have a space to study and even do his own work comfortably.

My life is currently different from how it was four months ago in that I was able to pay my child's school fees easily and planted my grains on time because I bought fertilizer on time too.

My new goal is to cement my house since smearing has been a problem.

The biggest difference in my daily life in the last four months is that I managed to save money and used it on purchasing a wooden door just hoping to fix it very soon.

I expect my life to change in the next six months is that I will have saved money which I will eventually use in building a kitchen since currently I cook in the open air which is hectic especially during rainny seasons.

My house do not have nice furniture,so my new goal to is to face lift it. I want to save the money I will be receiving and buy the furniture I have always longed for.

My life is currently different from how it would have never been were it not for these transfers in that my farm is now doing so well. I am hopeful that I will some good harvest when the time comes for harvesting.

In the next six months,I expect my life to change with my house in the process of plastering. I hope that by then I shall have started buying the building materials for same.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have managed to buy fertilizer for the first time at once and managed to plant my whole half acre piece of land at once. When I look at my farm and see how the maize is sprouting so well,it warms my heart.