Being a tea farmer, my goal has always been to increase the size of my tea farm. Over the past few months, I have managed to cultivate some tea seedling in the nursery so that I plant them come the next planting season.

Over the past few months, I have managed to hire some more labourers in my farm and this has created a big impact in farm produce as well as milk production. At the moment, I have a farmworker who is fully engaged in my dairy project and this has brought to a tremendous increase in milk production hence more income. My tea farm has also improved in that, I now have more income for my family use

My expectation in the next six months is that my life will be much better as compared to before because I believe that, with the increase of the workforce, the crops in my farm will be well tendered to such that, the proceeds will be much higher. This income will enable me to continuously pay school fees for my two children hence assure of them of a brighter future

My life is currently different in that I have increased the scale of my farming activities. I am now able to cultivate a bigger land compared to when I was not receiving the monthly income. Right now, I am planting more nappier grass to cater for the increasing number of cattle that I keep. This makes me less worried about my cattle because they will have enough food. To add on that I also employed a caretaker who closely monitors their progress and updates me when my attention is needed. My farm is now doing well and more productive because I managed to invest more when I received the transfers from Give Directly.

My next goal is to buy another dairy cow. Dairy cows have a lot of benefits despite it being tedious and demanding. Now that I have someone to help me with some of these activities, I think I can now add one more cow to the few that I currently have. This will increase my income and improve my living standards.

The biggest difference in my life is that I was able to employ a farmhand to help us with some farm activities. This was made possible with the fact that I know I will be able to pay for the services with the help of the monthly transfers. Through this, I was able to improve farm productivity because the farmhand is doing it fulltime. Before, I could sometime get busy with other activities outside hence the productivity was affected.

My expectation in the near future is to be a successful farmer and improve on the proceeds of my farm products. I believe that once I invest and improve my farm produce I will get more income which will improve my living standards. I will be able to meet most of my family's needs. I would comfortably pay my children's school fees, ensure they eat well and never lack anything. In other words, my life will be better.

My life is currently different in that I am now settled at home and even in the mind. I have peace of mind at home following my ability to plan and actualize more things as a parent. I have also been trusted with loans by people who could not dare trust me with any loan in the past. I can always do more investments that goes a long way in making my family self reliant., different in that I am now settled at home and in the mind. Ability to plan ahead without stressing myself. I am now credit worthy and can always plan ahead and do much more investment.

In the next four months, I want to put more land under tea plantation. I used GiveDirectly transfers to prepare tea seedlings that can plant up to a quarter of an acre. Rainy season shall have started in the next four months and this will be a perfect opportunity for me to plant more tea.

The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have been able to improve my farming practices by buying hybrid seeds, applying fertilizers on my farm and even applying pesticides to counter any pests that may attack my crops. This has seen my crop production rate rise and hence more income for the family. With this, I have been able to meet most of the family's needs with very little difficulty unlike before. My tea plantation is also well taken care of and am looking forward to increased tea production.

In the next six months I will have more income, more investments, ability to meet most of my family's needs and living standards and social life.

My life currently is different since I am currently doing farming which I was not doing before.

The new goal I now have is to plant some vegetable which I will later sell them.

The biggest difference in my daily life is happiness.

I expect my life to change in that I will have harvested my vegetable and I will have also improved my farming practices.