"I used my most recent transfer to continue my house project and to add to my already existing business. The house i am in is my parents old house and i want to have a house of my own while i want to grow my business and earn more money."

"GiveDirectly is doing well by giving us money to sustain ourselves because lack of money brings about worries. Imagine me to be able to buy a solar light all because GD has given me money and has left me with the choice of how to spend it."

"I am hoping to be an owner of several houses where i would also be a landlord to others, that way i would be able to fend for my family."

"In the year(s)to come i want to see myself in my new house where i can live together with my child."

"I want to see my self in my own house instead of living in my family's with that i will feel very satisfied that i am able to be an owner of a house."

"By the end of this year, I want to have saved $500 so I may expand my business. The gains from selling cyprinid alongside cashew nuts are modest. Due to the limited demand for cashew nuts, I occasionally have to throw a sizeable amount that has gone bad, resulting in a loss. At the end of the year, I want to open a retail store where I'll sell different foods, detergents, and other personal care items. Since the majority of these products are regularly consumed, I think it will work well. To accomplish this, I will set aside a portion of my monthly payments and revenues."

"At the moment, my firstborn completed primary school in December last year. The goal that I have is to enroll him in a technical college to pursue a carpentry course this year. Additionally, I want to concentrate on providing quality education for my 5 children who are still in primary school. They are always out of school due to fee arrears, something that bothers me a lot as a parent."

"In our village, we established a 25-member savings group where people could build their savings by depositing whatever they could afford at any time of the month. The savings will then be withdrawn on the same day by all group members, which is scheduled for the end of March this year. On my end, I had been saving at least $500 per week and hoped to have accumulated at least $100 by the end of March. With this amount, I hope to start a grocery business in which I will purchase a variety of groceries in bulk from a nearby market and then break the bulk as I sell to members of the immediate community. I hope to see success with this business, and the profits will help me to start introducing goat farming to my field."

"In the coming year and beyond, I intend to start goats keeping a long-term investment for myself. I will be able to sell them when they multiply to cater to any financial emergencies in the future. At the same time, I intend to save some amount from the transfers that I get every month to acquire enough food. This is because I am old and no longer economically active to feed myself."

"This year, my main goal is to use my transfers to pay fees for my daughter. Currently, she is undertaking a tailoring course on design and fashion. I hope this will enable her to gain skills that can later help her run a self-owned tailoring shop. As a result, she will become self-reliant and thus can support me, and her family comfortably. In addition, I am planning to spend some of my transfers on food since we always have the challenge of famine. Periodical crop failure has posed food scarcity challenges in our area, hence it will be needful for me to plan well on how to be obtaining food to support my family. It will supplement the income from my husband's income from livestock keeping."