When the rural access roads project was going on in my village early this year, part of my fence was destroyed during the road constructions as they were being widened, and because I live by the roadside part of my fence had to be completely brought down. For a better part of this year, my compound was accessible to anyone which put me at a high insecurity risk. I was never at peace, especially whenever I was away from home because I knew that it was very easy for robbers to break in. With what I had left from the transfers after paying the monthly contributions to the merry-go-round, I would buy fencing materials in bits until I eventually had enough to fence the entire area that had been destroyed. As we speak now, my compound is once again secure and am very much at peace, all thanks to Give Directly.

I had a cereals business sometime back, but when I got seriously ill months ago, it collapsed because most of its capital was spent on my medication and hospitalization that required a lot of money. My new goal now that I am better is to revive the business by using the transfers as capital. I know the project will soon end and I do not want to be left without any source of income especially now that I am not fully recovered from the illness I recently suffered and may require constant medical checkups.

I am a member of a merry-go-round group that we formed to help us save part of our transfers for better use. When I received my share four months ago, I invested most of it on quality farm inputs such as seeds and fertilizer. Even though most people in my village did not harvest much from their farms due to harsh weather conditions, I was lucky enough to have a bumper harvest. Right now, I do not spend on maize which has risen in price as my neighbours do. This is good news for me because my daily budget had reduced from what it was months ago when I would spend on maize among other daily needs.

At the moment, I am at the mercy of my children who have to fend for me, which is after my cereals business collapsed when I fell sick. Having been independent for most of my life, I do not feel very comfortable depending on others for everything and I hope that this will not be the case in the next six months. I currently have plans of using the transfers to revive the cereals business which I can run within my compound because I am still recovering from my illness and may not be able to go to the market just yet. I hope that in six months, the business will be stable enough to take care of most of my needs so that I do not have to fully rely on my children for financial needs.

The age is catching up with me, and there are things which I used to do but I cannot do them anymore. For that matter, I am able to use this money to support such like programs. Initially, I used to look for money from other sources to educate the orphans I live with. Sometimes I ask my husband and children, but could not get money at the right time, this resulted to sending them back home for fees while their peers were in school studying. This was very inconvenient to them.

I am planning to start poultry keeping project, especially Layers and Broilers for economic sustainability. I have four orphans who are my brother's grand children. I thought of that because nobody knows of tomorrow. If I die now, nobody would take care of them and by starting such like projects, it will be easy to put a side some little savings for them.

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I expect my life to change in that, by starting this poultry keeping project, I will be getting eggs and meat for family nutritional support as well as source of income.

Currently, I can farm with ease unlike before I could not afford fertilizer but now I can afford fertilizer with ease.

I have no new goals.

The biggest difference is that I have been able to do my farming with ease of acquiring fertilizer and good seeds.

In the next six months I will harvesting my maize.

There are no new goals so far.

We eat well as a family, my farm is already weeded and I find peace in my heart.

I will dig a borehole to help supply water for my family and for commercial purposes.

My farm is in good shape and in time because of the money I received from Give Directly. Without GD, I would have struggled to weed my farm. Thanks to GD.