"My life is now better because am able to meet some expenses that I wasn't able to in the past"

"The achievement that am proudest of was buying land to build my own home.It was quite a struggle because I didn't have a reliable income but through farming I managed to save,buy land and eventually built my house.Am proud to be a home owner just like any other person."

"My proudest achievement is that I have been able to save through table banking and managed to spend my savings to start a poultry farming as a business which was my only source of income."

"My biggest hardship has been lack of enough money to pay school fees for my children and provide basic needs to them, being aretiree it not been easy on my side."

"My proudest achievement is the bamper harvest i always get every season, i am able to feed family well and sell the rest to pay fees for my grandchildren."

"In the next six months i will have build a shop and introduced some other household items like sugar and the other food ingredients. This will give me greater returns as i will also keep doing my grocery business."

"My life is different in that I have now gained self esteem which was lacking before I received Give directly's unconditional cash transfers which has enabled me to acquire necessary items for life. Before this support, my life was useless and I felt neglected by my community."

"My life is differnet in that, I now own two bulls which enable me to do early planting of crops in order to get better yields. Before Give Directly's money, I had to wait for other farmers with bulls to finish ploughing in order for me also to plough for easy planting of crops."

"I have now enough land to cultivate since I was able to recover the land I had mortgaged, food production will not be a challenge now and my children have acquired all the basic needs for education."

"My life is different in that, ' I have recovered my three acres of land that was mortgaged and to my surprise, they wanted to own because I had no hope of paying back the mortgage amount. Am going to start using my land to cultivate crops to support my family. "