"I'm a watchman in someone's compound and at around 3:00 am just immediately after taking my usual rounds within the compound to check if there was any insecurity issue that needed attention, I received a message and to my disbelief, it was a confirmation message that I had received money from GiveDirectly. Having stayed awake the entire night safeguarding the compound, I felt so tired and sleepy but upon receiving the transfer, all the lost strength was regained. It was a big source of motivation and a good start for the day."

"I believe that six months from now I will have managed to save some cash that will help me in making repairs on my house so that I will have a nice place to live in and avoid the risk associated with such a poor structure that can easily fall on me anytime."

"In the next six months, I hope to have grown my poultry business and beekeeping. I will be evaluating my projects to see whether to expand them or start new ones that depending on how this would have worked for me."

"Paying school fees to my children have been the biggest challenge since the farming business have faced a lot if set backs of late, we have had to incur changes in fertilizer prices and seeds prices too have shot up yet the prices of the farm products have remained the same. "

"The biggest hardship I am faced with is unemployment. I am the last born in a polygamous family and my parents died immediately I finished form four so I was not taken to college for any training. I therefore depend on manual/non skilled jobs which are currently affected with long rains, because we are not able to work in the rice farms while it is raining. Sometimes I have to engage in other kinds of jobs like clearing of roads by local contractors where there pay us piece meal that cannot meet even our daily food requirement."

"I will have already constructed a new big house that can comfortably accommodate every member of my family so that we do not have to squeeze in small structure that can barely accommodate us."

"I want to start a small scale business of selling second-hand clothes so that i will be able to sustain myself and my family so that when the organization stops sending me ,money I will be help to keep going"

"The onions project is what my major program right now because I know that is has a very high rate of return in the market. Once the markets accept my farm products I know I will be able to generate a lot of income into the future even when the organization stops sending me the cash."

"My daughter finished class eight last year but due to limited financial resources I was not able to enroll her in a secondary school. Receiving this money will help me take her for a tailoring course in Bamba that she has always desired and which will be much more affordable for me. I will also buy her a sewing machine, fabrics and thread so she can start making clothes for people and earn from it thus boosting our household income."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months since I will have a lot of produce on my farm. I will be harvesting maize and I hope it will be a good harvest since it has already started showing signs of a good season. I have seen this because there has been quite some rain early in the season. I will also have increased the heard of sheep."