"We struggle to get what to eat because we only have one small land and to be able to produce enough for our family we have to rent another land to cultivate. Another challenge we are facing is not having enough money to use in our daily expenses , the little we have we get it from working for others."

"My husband, David, inherited 0.5 acres of land from his grandfather 3 years ago. Unfortunately, the entire land is rocky and not a single crop can grow on it. As a result, we often lease 0.75 acres of land on the lower side of Kapkuikui at $30 which we sow maize and tomatoes. It pains me that the produce sometimes is insufficient for my family of 10 and I am forced to purchase more from the stores even with the limited resources."

"My wife gave birth to a premature baby at 7 months he was incubated for 3 weeks but due to lack of money we brought him back home and bought cotton to maintain his temperature. At 10 months he started becoming sickly, the doctors said he was suffering from a stomach disease which I failed to understand. I am still worried that even though he is now one year and 5 months he cries oftenly, doesn't walk and has been having diarrhoea since January 10th which has so hard for me as I am always worried about him"

"Living with no wife is not easy. My wife died 23 years ago, she was giving birth of twins that time and died with babies. It was very hard for me to raise my children alone because I did not want to get another wife. As an old man who lives alone, I am always feeling lonely because when I go to the farm, I go alone and many times, I do not cook for myself due to loneliness."

"The main thing which is a challenge for me is that I am a single mom and poor. I dropped out of school when I was 18years old and it is funny that I was still studying in primary three at that age. I lost my mom when I was 7 years old. From that time, my life changed completely, I could catch anything in classes which made drop out because of bad life. After dropping out, I started living as a street girl because I went to work as a house maid in Kigali for 1 year but I couldn't resist on how I was being treated. I came back to my village and met a boy. We were in love as other people but when I told him that I was pregnant, he did not deny it but he was also poor. He could not play any role as a father. I decided to be the father and mother of my child and started looking for casual job where I get paid of less than $1 per day. My father is still alive. He gave me a land to build my house to live in with my daughter which was very helpful that time till now. Nowadays, it is not easy to get everything my child needs especially school fees, food on her table and clothes because I don't have any land for farming, I always do farming jobs for other people ."

"I lost my parents when I was 15 years that is when I started living alone as an orphan. The life was very harsh to me because I was scared staying in a house as a teenager of that age. I remember I could beg for neighbours to give me one of their kids to stay with me during the night but they could refuse sometimes. After 5 years, I got pregnant for my first born daughter and because I was not studying, I was happy that at least I have someone to live for even though the father of my child did not support me on anything to raise that child. In 2012, the father of my first child got me pregnant for the second child who is a boy. After telling him that I am pregnant, he denied the child again and left me. I struggles to raise them in poverty because I do casual jobs sometimes to make a living. Now my first daughter is now 20 years old but she dropped out of school too. Currently, would say that I do not see hope of life because I am poor and it is very difficult for me to raise two children and yet my first daughter is young now, she can also get pregnant at some point due to how I am not able to provide for her basic needs."

"The biggest challenge we are facing is poverty because there is no balance diet due to the bad season we met. We are not getting enough harvest."

"When I started receiving the cash transfers, I was running my fast food business under a temporary shed. Immediately, I was motivated to build a more stable space for my business and accommodate more customers. So, I began constructing a three room structure, where I would use one of the space for my business and rent out the other two. As we speak, what’s left is installing a concrete pillar around the building and putting up doors to finish the project. My plan is to direct at least $20, as I have been doing, towards the completion of the exercise."

"Investing in my children's education has been my key priority. Being a mother of seven, things have been tough on my side since I solely relied on charcoal burning which was not insufficient to cater for both education and food. Since the time I started receiving the transfer from GiveDirectly, I opted to merge the sources of income to ensure my children are not sent out of school for fees. Currently, I haven't stooped the business of burning charcoal because I combine both the transfer and the amount from charcoal sales to ensure my children acquire better education. My target is to ensure that my children are retained in school full-time for better education."