"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now own some livestock which includes a dirty cow, goats, and chicken. I chose to purchase them since they will make me wealthier within a short period of time. With the dairy cow, I will be getting milk for free whereby I will be using some litres for my family consumption and sell the remaining litres to my neighbours and local markets. Also with the goats, I am sure that when I later sell the offsprings I will be able to achieve most of my goals. This makes me ambitious and hopeful in life because I will no longer strain in meeting my family's needs as before."

"The money from GiveDirectly has helped me a lot. I bought food for my family that I believe will last them for a while. I bought two bags of maize, thirty tins of beans, ten kilograms of rice, and twenty-five kilograms of sugar. The money also enabled us to achieve our dream of expanding our poultry farming business. We have bought treated fencing poles, iron sheets, and frames that we are using in building a bigger poultry house that will accommodate more than five hundred poultry chickens. We also managed to buy a few clothes for ourselves and that for our children. We had other plans such as starting a dairy farm but we decided to settle on expanding our poultry farming business because it is easy to manage and it is affordable. My wife too has a lot of time to take care of them since she lost her job of teaching in a private school when Coronavirus started in our country. We wanted a bigger and warmer house for our poultry especially the chicks but we were not in a position to construct it before because of a lack of enough money to do so. So when the lump sum transfer came in, we decided to embark on the plan of expanding it. Thank you GiveDirectly for making this possible."

"The money from GiveDirectly has helped me in various ways. I was able to buy a cow and two goats with part of the money. I was also able to buy a chair, a woofer, and a bag of maize that will serve as food for my family. I plan to use part of the remaining money to buy a few chickens for rearing and the rest of the money on food. I have always wanted to have a cow of my own but due to lack of enough money, I have not been able to buy one. The little money that I have been getting, I have been using it to buy food and milk for everyday consumption. I have tried my best to save up bits of money to buy the cow, but it has been hard due to everyday needs. Thank you GiveDirectly for making this happen."

"This transfer from GiveDirectly has helped me a lot. I was able to buy a cow, two goats, and three chickens that I want to rear. I was also able to buy half a bag of maize with part of the transfer. With the little amount that I still have, I plan to use it on buying small things such as buying vegetables and some foodstuffs for everyday use. The reason why I decided to buy maize, is because I did not have food to eat. I am living alone because my wife passed on and I have grown old. I no longer have the strength to till the whole of my land and hence I only till a small portion where I grow some few crops. I had another cow and a few goats but I wanted to add some more so that they can help me in the future when they reproduce."

"The money means alot to me and my household. I will use the money to build a new house with iron sheets and cemented floor. Some of the momey will be used to purchase food so that we can be having meals at least 3 times a day. Lastly i will buy some livestocks such as goats and chickens to be raising in my household."

"I will use this money to buy chicken wire and to build a modern poultry house. I had started rearing chicken but they were foraging from one place to another, therefore they created a major conflict between neighbors and I. They were destroying neighbour's crops.My plan now is to buy a chicken wire so that I control chicken movements."

"Am happy to be enrolled in the project. There are alot of things that am lacking in my household. My house leaks and finding food to eat is not easy since am old. I will use the money to buy iron sheets to renovate my house which is thatched with grass. I will also buy food and a matress. If I will have some more money, I will buy chickens to raise for food."

"I spent 300 USD on dairy cow because I couldn't afford one before and this forced me to buy a liter of milk each day. 150 USD was spent on putting up a modern kitchen which is better off than one I had initially. The initial one was old and grass thatched and there is scarcity of roofing grass in our place. 15 Dollars was spent on three chicken layers as a familys income source, 90 USD on clothing, 10 USD on maize seeds and the rest on food."

"i was very happy when i realised i had received the money at that point i knew my life has changed actually i bought rice and chicken for my children a meal we eat once in a blue moon"

"I spent 250 Dollars on a dairy cow because it will be a source of income for payment of school fees. 72 Dollars on additional 20 chicken layers and will additional source of income. I spent 45 Dollars of my kid's clothing and shoes because they had worn out clothes and lacked gumboots. I spent 600 dollars of my transfer on a sack of maize, and ten kilograms of rice as food for my family. I spent 210 litres water drum for water drum because water scarcity is prevalent in our place. 80 dollars I spent on repayment of debts."