"My second transfer was spent to buy food, a solar, cement, sand and water to plaster the inside of my house and cementing the floor."

"I spent my second cash transfer for buying bedding in order to improve on our living conditions. I paid school fees for my child. I paid a debt for an acre of land that I had mortgaged for paying school fees. I bought food for the builders and household members. I bought a door, a window, cement and timber towards completing construction of my permanent house. I bought a drum for collecting water. I spent UGX 40000 on starting business that will support the household. I bought ground nut seeds and spent part of the money on leisure."

"I have a plan of buying a water tank which can hold 2,000 litres.This will help me harvest water during the rainy season.It is a challenge getting clean water during the dry season.I will also buy a dairy cow to add to the one I have."

"In the next four months, I am planning to buy a water tank through the collection made from my merry go round.When I get the money, I will add it with some other money and buy a water tank that will bring to an end the endless problem of water shortages."

"Evening hours marks the happiest part of my day. It is the only time that I get to rest after a very long and tedious day of trekking to and fro for over three hours to go to Jila in search of water from the nearest stream. I wake up by 6:00 am and after preparing my child for school, I head out for the stream. I return home by around 9:00 am with a 20litre Jerrican of water. Thereafter, I embark on the household chores. At around noon, I prepare lunch for my children then go out again in search of firewood. By the time I return around afternoon it is already getting late and I hurriedly pick up my Jerrican and head out to the stream again in search of another Jerrican of water for evening use. By the time I arrive home in the evening,I am normally very tired and I only wish to lie down and rest."

"My day starts very early in the morning. I usually prepare my children to school and then leave to fetch water from a pan which is almost ten kilometers from my village. In the afternoon, I do my usual job of making charcoal and so by the time I come back home, I am very tired. Therefore, evening is the happiest part of my day because that is when I get to rest."

"I spent my second cash transfer for servicing our motor cycle that is used for boda boda transport business and a bicycle that supports in fetching water for the household. I bought a cow that will act as a saving for my household. Part of the money was spent on paying school fees for our child and then helped in feeding the family, purchasing delivery kits and payment of medical bills. I have saved UGX 200000 in order to support me in weeding crops."

"Besides being a teacher, it has always been my desire to invest in agribusiness in order to supplement my source of income. However, I have not been able to achieve this because of lack of enough capital. . Bamba being a dry area with unpredictable rainfall patterns, I will invest in drought resistant crops specifically watermelons which I will supply to vendors at Kongowea market in Mombasa. Therefore, this will mean purchasing three pairs of oxen to scale up farming in order to facilitate my project. "

"My desire has been to start a small business of selling vegetables and other food stuffs at Mushongoleni center. This dream has never materialized since I majorly depend on my husband whose job is to vend water at Mombasa.The money he earns is at most two hundred and fifty shillings in a day which can not sustain our family needs. Receiving this money will mean starting my longest desired business and also enable my husband to start a charcoal selling center at Mombasa. This shall earn us extra income to sustain our family needs."

"Previously, I used to wake up so early to look for water in a communal borehole where there were specific times we could draw water. I am tilling my farm right now and I do not have to worry about where to get water before I go to the farm in the morning or after doing tedious farm work. I drilled a borehole in my compound using the transfer so I have a day to day supply of water in my home. Thanks to GiveDirectly, my life has changed tremendously."