"The greatest worry I had as a parent was whether my children will finish school or not. The money came in handy when my two children were awaiting to join form one. It usually an expensive process especially when the kids are joining high school. I am glad I was one of the beneficiaries since the money helped me in settling their expenses. I used the profits from my chicken business to settle my other household needs"

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I am now a proud owner of a highly productive dairy cow. I have been milking cows but the most unfortunate thing is that the cows that I have all along been milking are not mine. They belong to my parents and we could only get milk for household consumption from them. With the dairy cow that we have bought, we are looking forward to having more milk that can sustain us as a family and even get surplus for sale. This will definitely change our lives as a family. I have also improved my poultry keeping business and I am looking forward to having a successful poultry unit. Right now the chicken have not started laying eggs but I am optimistic that they will be laying soon."

"I spent my second transfer to buy more building materials such three bags of cement, one trip of bricks and timber that I plan to start using to build. I then bought some household items food, some live stock like chicken, goats, energy Part of the transfer Ugx 470000 was used to pay my parents bride price. I am saving up some money for other emerging issues."

"My additional goal for my life for the next four months is to start poultry keeping project. I have already started buying some material needed in building a chicken pen. I settled on this since its starting cost is affordable and it requires minimum attention."

"Four months ago, I was living in a rental house in a nearby centre which made it impossible for me to focus on farming because we lived far from home. After I constructed my house and moved here a few months ago, I ventured into farming because I can now tend to my farm and have enough space to keep livestock. Apart from the joy of being in my own private land and house, I now have livestock, poultry such as pigs, goats and chicken which I can be used for household consumption or can be sold for income."

"My life is currently different because I now live on my own. Many projects including the poultry-keeping that I now run was not possible to do on my mothers compound. This has changed because I do it on my new built a compound and all the chickens can now be well-taken care of. The decisions on the birds and other farming initiatives are quick and timely. As a result, I have a source of income form the eggs. I get about kes 150 per day as opposed to when I used to rear them in my mother's poultry house. She would easily sell the birds off and the all the eggs too belonged to her. Today I can account better for all the income and make good plans for my self. I am a happy grown-up person with the dignity to make and spend money the way I want."

"My goals for the next four months is to start a poultry farming business. I currently have two chicken start with and my plan is to buy more chicken for rearing. This in the near future will be a source of income."

"I live in a small hut which I share with my chicken.I have always dreamt of keeping chicken in large scale for commercial purposes ie sale of eggs that is why I decided to share my small house with them since I have not been able to build a poultry house.When I heard about Givedirectly transfers,I was elated because I knew that my dream of building a good poultry house and increasing the number of chicken will be made a reality.Receiving this money also means that I will be able to build an iron-roofed house so that my current house will serve as a kitchen"

"My life is different in that I am happily in good terms with my landlord because since I started receiving the transfers, I have never defaulted in paying my house rent. Besides, With my new poultry project, the transfers I receive has greatly helped me to purchase enough chicken feeds that would enable me to run my project well. I am at a good position to earn a better income in the near future unlike before."

"As a dairy farmer, receiving this money means adding two fressian dairy cattle to my farm to increase the income i normally earn from selling milk. Poultry farming is also part of my plan. I have already fenced all around my compound with wire mesh hence as per now, all i need is to build a chicken coop, add more hens to the ones i have and buy chicken feeds as well for a start."