"In the next six months, I would want to buy a cow. I would want to use the cow to pay my dowry. Since my husband died before paying my dowry and according to our custom, it has to be paid. I would want to buy the cows and give one of my in-laws to visit my home and fulfil this right."

"I expect my life to change to the better in the next six months in that I will have finished renovating my house. Having finished the renovation will allow me to concentrate on doing other things such putting more effort and time on my farm activities. I am also planning to buy a water tank for water harvesting and storing rain water."

"I expect my life to change for the better in the next six months. I am optimistic that the dairy cow I have bought will have reproduced. I will be having enough milk for my family and selling the surplus. I also believe that my business will have grown. This will boost my income. I now depend on casual work from tea plantation but I believe that by then I will not be working there because I believe the income I will be getting from the investment will be enough to cater for my family needs."

"I was very happy when I started receiving my money. I t was such a great achievement since I knew that I will be able to enroll in one of the hair dressing colleges and pursue the course of my dream. I bowed down to thank God for that have come into my life."

"I hope that by this time I will have enlarged my current house so that my children will have their own separate bedroom. This will give us more privacy as a family even on those occasions that we receive visitors."

"In the next six months, I expect to be able to accumulate more funds in time to pay school fees for my children. Top on my priority list of things that I want to do is to give the best education to my children. I also have plans of buying more goats that I can resale later to get enough money to buy a dairy cow."

"My new goal is to open a beauty shop. Currently, I sell my beauty products in streets and my customers sometimes find it difficult to find me. At times they go to other shops and thus I lose some of my customers hence low income. Opening this shop means that I will be stationed in one location and will be easy for my customers to get the beauty products hence more income."

"In the next six months, I am optimistic that I shall have fully recovered and strong enough to engage in some of the economic activities that will empower me. I expect to own more assets that will always remind me about GiveDirectly even when the transfers come to an end."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I feel I am now happy. I was always stressed up in the past since I used to depend on casual jobs. At times I could stay for two weeks without money to meet my basic needs such as food and pay rent since the casual jobs was irregular. I am now happy since I used my transfer to start a new business where I sell second hand clothes and shoes. This is a regular source of income to meet all my basic needs."

"In the next six months, I would want to start up a barbershop. This will help me get a regular income to sustain my family needs. This is because casual work was not consistent and I ended up getting into more debts which I have paid with part of GD transfers, I would not want to go back to where I was back then."