"My life will have changed in the next six months because I anticipate abundant yields from my farm after employing modern mechanisms in preparing my parcel of on time. This will assure me of food security in my household as compared to the previous years."

"In the next six months I expect to continue saving the money to plaster the remaining part of the house."

"In the next six month I would have started saving some money from my business of charging phones to enable me to start the business of selling domestic goods."

"How relatable to you is the saying "familiarity breeds contempt"? Or rather has it ever occurred to you that the people you thought would help row your boat are major contributors to its stagnation? Let me explain. When I decided to start a shopkeeping enterprise about three years ago, almost impulsively I settled on a shopping centre about 7 minutes walk from home. In any case my people will promote my business. Or so I thought. My objective for this business was so will complement my livestock income in providing the family with funds for our children's education and household needs like food. Until it didn't. Several people including relatives, friends and neighbors would throng my premise but due to hard economic times in the community most of them take items on credit. In the spirit of a good neighbor I let them -my regret. Some of my customers have defaulted and gotten away with accumulation of huge debts. Some genuine while others, contemptuously deliberate! They have become a huge impediment to my success, making it hard to meet my business goals. This is the biggest hardship I've faced in recent times. "

"Casual work such as washing clothes or fetching water in people's homes is what sustains us. I make 2 dollars a day at most from this and it is not enough even just for buying food only. What strains me most is paying my son's school fees which is 18500 shillings in one term (3 months). Hence, financial instability is my constant worry in life. "

"Food insecurity has been my biggest hardship since I am a widow and a sole breadwinner for the family. Considering that I have been depending on subsistence farming with old methods of land preparation, my produce has been rarely sustaining us for even one month. Since I am financially challenged, skipping our meals has been the order of our day."

"I have been depending on livestock rearing as my long term investment plan, mostly goats. In 2017, I sold all my livestock in order to educate my two children who were in secondary school by then. As at today, I have not been able to obtain enough money to restart this investment, something that makes my life difficult. Receiving this money means a good restart of my of raising livestock. I will spend my first transfer to purchase ten goats at 25 dollars each.."

"I have always wanted to fence my compound with barbed wire and wire mesh in order to restrict my poultry and cattle from destroying my neighbour's crops, something that has seen us quarrel day in day out. Receiving this money will therefore help me fence my compound thus earning back my respect. I also intend to add more chicken to my farm in order to boost the income i usually generate from selling poultry products"

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is unemployment.Imagine owning a bachelors degree in computer science then ending up unemployed.It's 5 years now since I completed my undergraduate studies.I was an intern for 6 months in 2014 but did not manage to secure permanent employment in one of the Tea companies in the neighbouring county.I have two children and due to the hard economic times I was forced seek for employment as a teacher.I now teach Mathematics and Business studies.I am employed by the school board and therefore I am paid very little money(100 USD) in a month since I depended on parents fees.I cannot be employed permanently by the Teachers Service Commission since I did not do a course in Education.I am therefore just hopeful that one day I will be employed in my line of proffession."

"In the next six months, I expect to boost my poultry project since my aim is to get double production as to compared with the ones I am generating at the moment. I shall get a number of eggs and chicken not only for sale but also for my household's consumption. Therefore, we shall be obtaining high nutritional food at a low cost even after GiveDirectly has phased out of our village."