"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now own a pair of oxen that I acquired through the transfers I received from GiveDirectly. They will help me with my farming activities. I feel they are more effective than hiring labor because they take fewer days to plough an acre. This means I will get a bumper harvest because of the increased acreage of land tilled. Previously I used to get little harvests because I couldn't hire labor. I am glad this will not be the case anymore. Apart from that, I will also earn more income by hiring the oxen to my neighbors. I like how I have been able to diversify my sources of income with the help I got form Give Directly."

"With the effort that we put in the farm this season through the help of GD transfers that enabled us to buy farm inputs such as fertilizer and hire labourers to assist in weeding, I hope that we will have a bumper harvest this season. This will be good news as it will give us a break from purchasing cereals for family consumption and even have excess to sell for income whenever we are in a financial fix."

"In the next six months, I would have bought a cow. I am planning to buy a cow that is already producing milk from my relative in another village. I feel it is the safest way to do this business because I am buying from someone I know and trust and I have hopes of getting the profits immediately because I have a ready market and the cow is already producing milk. This will improve my life greatly because it will relieve me from the daily expenditure is of buying milk. The profits will also help me meet my other goals"

"Receiving this money means I will able to construct an Iron roof house. Thatching grass has become expensive to maintain and to get. If I build an iron roof, I will feel much better because I will save money for something else like education of children."

"Receiving this money means timely payment of my children's school fees and completing plastering work in my house. I currently have a problem of paying school fees for my children and some times they are sent home for to non payment. The house I stay in is some times cold because of te gaps left in the wall which makes my children some times sickly."

"The biggest hardship I am facing is limited land for agriculture. We just have one acre of land that can not sustain us. If I had more land, I would cultivate a lot of crops where some would be for home consumption while the balance would be sold to help get other needs."

"The biggest hardship that I face in my life is lack of a reliable source of income for treatment and daily upkeep. Most of the time, I do casual labour in order to acquire the necessary items needed by the household."

"Receiving this money will mean starting up a business that will generate daily income in order to solve household problems. I have been relying only on agriculture but it is not reliable hence the need to diversify the source of income."

"Paying medical bills for my three epileptic children is my biggest hardship. The three children are undergoing treatment in daily basis because they have to swallow medication. Besides, I do not have enough time to go out to dig because I have to be close to them and monitor."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that, I shall have started rearing chicken which I will use my two subsequent transfers to build a chicken coop and buying a few chicken for the start. In addition to this, I am planning to use the money I will get after selling my french beans to buy a dairy cow. Dairy farming has always been my dream and hopefully, before the end of this year, I foresee myself starting it up. Having the two projects running smoothly has always been my dream to serve as my alternative sources of income."