"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have improved farming techniques. I am planning to use modern techniques such as in order to increase my acreage of land under cultivation. I now have the means to hire a tractor and buy pesticides, fertilizers, and other farm inputs. This will guarantee me more income from the sale of my farm produce. I plant to use this money to majorly cater for my children education needs"

"In the next six months, I expect a lot of changes and the most obvious one is the fact that we will be owning our own cow. This to us means that we will no longer be buying milk as it has been a routine over a length of time. This will relieve us of the heavy cost we have been incurring and will then enable us to spend on other household needs."

"My expectation in the near future is to be financially stable such that I can comfortably pay school fees for my children. I strive to be successful in my poultry farming so that the proceeds from these projects can help with these plans. I also want to live in a permanent house. My kitchen right now is made of mud and the roof is grass-thatched and maintaining it is quite labor-some and costly. All these plans are all aimed at improving our general welfare and lifestyle in the long run. I believe I will be able to achieve them since I now have the means to reach these goals."

"I believe in the next six months I would have planted the cabbages and wouldn't be worried about paying school fees for my children."

"I believe in the next six months I would have done a lot in terms of farming. The time I used to spend fetching water will now be spent on working on my farm. This will help me spend more time taking care of my crops which means my harvest will increase. Because I now have time to pay close attention to my cabbages, I know I will get a bumper harvest which will earn me more income. This will enable me to cater to my family's needs even after when GiveDirectly have completed their work in our area."

"The biggest hardship that I face in my household is inadequate income. There are so many competing demands like hiring land, oxen for ploughing, paying school fees and medical bills among the many. Our source of income is narrow, which makes it difficult to pay school fees, hire land and plough in time hence poor yields and low incomes."

"Currently, I have not managed to finish my previous goal of plastering my house thus I do not have a new goal until I finish this then I will think of what to do next. I do masonry work since where we are staying in a rural setup, I get very little daily income, and I have to budget with the little I get. Therefore I have to plan properly to achieve my set goals."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I have been able to build a decent and spacious house for my family. This would not have been possible had it not have been for the financial aid from GiveDirectly because the little wages I earn from the work I do is only enough to feed my family. I am now glad since my plans have been achieved and my family will no longer be using our previous kitchen."

"I am growing older and older thus engaging in daily chores and causal jobs is becoming challenging. I had built a small house while I was still stronger. By then it was pretty and spacious enough for us but as time went by it turned smaller and older. This made it uncomfortable for us and the leaking roof made it worse to stay in. I had a plan to build a more decent house a dream that I never saw it coming true since my daily household needs grew higher forcing me to spend much of my wages on. I lost hope of building another one as I got older and accepted to stay in my pitiable conditions. When I received my transfer, I felt it had dawned on my life as I no longer worry about a leaking roof. Currently, I live under a decent spacious iron-roofed house courtesy of GiveDirectly. Being able to fulfill this at my age is the biggest difference in my daily life."

"Building a permanent house is what receiving this money will mean to me. That will improve on my living conditions. The house I sleep in is grass thatched, when it rains, all bedding will be wet and some important items like documents. It's worse if it rains at night because we have to stand because it leaks all over. "