"In the next six months, I will have paid dowry. I will now be respected by my parents in law. I always avoided meeting them because I had never accomplished this goal. Since it is a taboo to meet your parents before paying dowry, I will make sure that I finish this process just to make us be free with each other. To me this will be my biggest achievement. It will be a dream come true."

"Receiving this money will indeed liberate my family from the abject state of poverty that we have been forced to live in for so many years due to lack of adequate finances to improve our difficult situation. I plan to invest my transfer in livestock trade business since I understand it very well owning to the many years of experience that I have garnered while selling for others in our village. It is a very profitable venture in our region since many people lead a pastoralist kind of life thus my market is assured. With the remaining part of the transfer, I will set up a general shop business for my wife within Bandari center and hrough our combined efforts, I am certain that we will be able to generate sufficient income to educate,feed and even build a better shelter for our children."

"I expect in the next six month to have saved enough money that I shall use to expand my house. I believe with this expansion my family and I would have family dinners together comfortably hence it will bond our relationship more."

"I plan to save and venture into poultry farming to help in earning some income for me and my family. I am looking into buying a laptop to start up online writing. These two ways of earning income will enable me to generate more money to use in paying off the loan."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I shall have saved money and use it to start a cereal business to make an extra income. I believe from the extra income I will have ease in paying school fees for my children hence they will no longer stay home for a long period of time due to school arrears and also their performance in school will be good."

"The biggest hardship I face is lack of food to eat. This makes me some times sleep with a single meal a day."

"The biggest hardship I face is lack of enough money for buying animals especially oxen. The oxen will be helping me in cultivation purposes. "

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is inadequacy of food. This has made it very hard for me to maintain the family. "

"The biggest hardship I face is lack of enough money to enable expand my business. I do sell cassava tubers in the markets of Bukedea, Aloet and kachumbala. "

"Receiving this money means that I will be in position to buy a piece of land that I can settle inn. "