"In the next six months, I want to boost my grandmother's cereal business. This will help her stabilise financially and improve on profits which will, in turn, will give her an easy time handling family financial issues. This will help her pay school fees for others without much struggle as it has been the case."

"My life is different than it would have been if I never received the transfer because we are leading a better family as a family. This is because we have our own shop that serves as a reliable source of income. More so, it is a source of employment to me - being a shopkeeper. Hence, I am less worried about what to do to earn a living unlike before when I used to handle tedious activities like weeding."

"I hope that I will have a stable business in the next six months which will make me independent so that I can run my own projects without having to depend on my husband 100% for financial assistance as I do now."

"I hope that in the next six months, I will have gathered enough building materials to enable me to construct a separate house for my children so that they have the privacy they deserve as teenagers."

"My life is different than it would have been if I never received the transfer since I now much relieved after clearing fee arrears for my two children who are at secondary school. As a single parent (widow), caring, feeding and educating my children has been a challenge. Thus, receiving the financial boost from GiveDirectly meant a lot to me - I am now less stressed or worried about paying school fees for my children. I used the transfers to pay fees for the whole year for the two children. Thanks a lot GiveDirectly."

"I have a long term of keeping chicken in a large quantity but the only thing that I am missing at the moment is the structure where I will be keeping them. So for me right now i am planning of savings every single month so that I can be able to get the structure and start off the project. I know that once the project gets rolling their numbers will increase significantly and most probably I will be in a position to sel, out some of them in the future and make some little cash."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is lack of land for cultivation. "

"Considering my current situation, I am a house wife and a mother of young twins. Our area is so dry that getting safe and clean water is a big challenge. I am forced to walk at least ten kilometers to get earth water. I consider lack of clean and safe water for household consumption as the biggest hardship I have ever faced."

"I am just a house wife and a mother to four children. Life has really been unfair to me because with my little family we face challenges in getting our daily meals. My husband's job of selling charcoal sometimes is not reliable. Lack of stable source of income is the biggest hardship that I have ever faced."

"I expect in the next six months that I have saved enough to enroll in college. I believe through completing my course in college I will be able to get employed and assist my parent back at home and also be a mentor to other girls who have the goal of succeeding through education and the opt for early marriages due to lack of school fees."