"I spent my entire transfer on moulding bricks for my house."

"I have not used it yet cause am waiting to get the remaining transfer inorder to recondition my house"

"In my opinion, I feel Givedirectly did a recommendable job for enrolling all the poor households into the program. Through giving direct cash and trusting the beneficiaries to make decisions, the living standards in the village has improved greatly. There is nothing that I feel they should improve on."

"In the next one year, I hope to complete the construction of our house by putting up strong walls. This is because the walls are not stable enough, the aim is to make it more durable. Accomplishing this will ensure that I will no longer have to renovate it frequently which is an expensive task. Furthermore, I intend to continue offering educational support to my 2 grandchildren. They are still in primary school and planning to save some money from casual work at construction sites to further their studies."

"We have struggled against odds under very difficult circumstances to advance our education up to college level. I am trained as a P1 teacher and graduated in the year 2021 while my husband is a graduate of Bachelor of Education degree from Rongo University. We were so optimistic and full of live that our lives will change for better but things has been hard on us. We have not gotten employment by the government, my husband used to teach in Radat secondary school under the Board of Management terms but he never received any salary for the whole term and had to leave it since it was not sustainable to continue with the job.We are worried and broken, bringing up our two children without a stable income is a tall order. As we continue to navigate with life challenges we worry about uncertain future, unemployment is what pains us to the core."

"Life is full of uncertainties, we are faced with a myriad of challenges from food insecurity to school fees. We are blessed with 4 children, and 3 of them are in primary school. Providing them with school fees and school uniforms is an uphill task for us. We live from hand to mouth since we depend on casual jobs which are erratic and pay little just enough to buy foodstuff. Lately, the cost of living has shot up and made life difficult for us. Our only hope is our children, we want the best for them and therefore we struggle to make ends meet to provide for them and pay them school fees. The schools are due to open in a week's time and we have no money to pay their school fees. Our lives has largely been decided by fate, we have no idea what tomorrow holds for us."

"We are old and as such life has become so unbearable for us. My health has deteriorated too, I am battling chronic ulcers that has weigh me down for sometime. At the same time I have a lower back pain that does not allow me to bend, I used to do casual works like charcoal burning for a living but I cannot do at the moment because I am incapacitated. We therefore depend on my husband's cash transfers for the elderly which is meagre and unsustainable , at times our elderly son support us to get foodstuff. We are hit by food insecurity since we are not economically active and only depends on the support from my son and the government.I am also selective in terms of the food I eat because of the ulcers, the food I need can be expensive."

"I am currently holding a small shop but i face challenges of not having enough investment to expand and keep it running and falling into debt, as I previously wanted to ask for a loan in the bank but i was not able to get it because the business is not stable as I lack enough product to keep its stability. And another challenge we face is the change of seasons which affects our crops production and not being able to get enough inorganic fertiliser for our land because we are not able to pay for it on time."

"The main challenge I am facing is not having my own livestock to give me fertiliser to use in my land , I am currently herding for others to be able to get organic fertiliser to use and I currently have a small land which i cultivate and it doesn't produce enough for us to live with which requires me to work for others in order to survive."

"Not having a proper shelter to live in is my greatest challenge because when we are in a rainy season i struggle a lot as the rain reaches inside the house, and I don't have my own land to cultivate in which requires me to work for others daily in other to get food. Living alone is harder for me , as I have separated with my husband 25 years ago and i was not able to re marry again and I don't live with my 3 children because i can't be able to provide for them. My 2 kids currently live with their grandparents and the third lives with my neighbour who saw me struggle to get food to eat and offered to help out by raising her."