"What you have done best is to give us the two transfers to improve our lives. Indeed, this has changed our lives to the fullest being that before we had nothing. Due to these transfers, I managed to finish building my house by fixing the three doors and roof, I also bought two goats and treated my mother up to the moment she died. I do not have any complaints but I do thank GiveDirectly and request additional transfers if possible."

"GiveDirectly is doing well by providing assistance to the less fortunate people within our town that's impacting lot of people now. I want the money that is given at the second and other levels should be higher than what is given at first transfer."

"Like I mentioned earlier on, my main source of income and sustainability is local beer selling at a small scale of course. I sell what we call "kachasu" to the locals here. Unfortunately, I have been forced to close my business due to the high cost of the needed materials for production, specifically sugar. It has been 3 months now since my closure. I was unable to afford a packet of sugar at $1.8. Due to this pause in my business I am currently unable to afford food, since I rely on buying, thus $3 a bucket. Additionally, as you can see my kitchen is grass thatched and I also have to buy that grass. Now, the rainy season is here and the kitchen roof needs repairing but I have no idea how I am to achieve that since I have no money. This worries me day in day out for I fear my kitchen might collapse with the rains."

"At present we only have two hurdles that distress us as a household. The first one being poor housing, thus, leaking roof in particular. Whenever it rains our roof leaks and we are stranded because we have nowhere else to seek shelter when this happens. This has been our challenge for years and as if this not enough, to exacerbate the situation we are currently facing a hunger crisis in this family. With the erratic rains, that we got in these parts last farming season, we only managed to harvest 3 bags of maize for food from our 1 acre farm land where we normally get 20 bags from on a good year. These 3 bags of maize sustained the 7 of us from April to June and since then we've had to depend on pieceworks for our daily sustainance."

"Hunger and poor housing condition are the only challenges I am facing in my family. As of now, we don't have food since we didn't harvest anything this year from our farmland. When we manage to have food, we eat twice a day, thus, lunch and supper but most days we sleep on empty stomachs. To make matters worse our house doesn't offer us the comfort we need as it is cracked and it leaks whenever it rains."

"There are but two challenges that we are currently facing as a household. These are lack of food and poor housing. We don't farm so we rely on buying food. In order to find money to do that we need to get pieceworks, which on its own is also a challenge as they are scarce these days, and get paid then buy maize for food. My family needs to spend $15 on food, thus maize, a month but with the current economic situation we only manage to acquire $10 which is not sufficient, hence we are constantly struck with hunger. As if that's not enough, we don't find comfort from this house we are living in due to the fact that it leaks when it rains and this gives us restless nights as well as damages our household items."

"It's now exactly a year since the demise of my husband, Patrick Zaindi. It has not been easy for me and my son here, Prince Zaindi. I struggle to fend and provide for him. The biggest challenge for me has been low food stock levels since I have had to reduce my farm area from 4 acres to 3 acres and my harvest has therein been reduced as well. I reduced it so that I can easily manage to work on it alone. This has resulted in low yields. From my 6 bags of maize that I harvested this year, I am left with a single bag as of today. I worry that once this is depleted I will have nothing to feed my son with. This brings me constant worry."

"Back in 2018 I lost about 2 acres of my farm land to floods, this land got washed away. This has negatively impacted me and my family since we have been unable to attain a sufficient harvest from the 1 acre that is remaining. We used to get about 7 bags of maize from our field but currently we only manage to get a single bag of maize as food for the 4 of us. Due to this, we are facing a hunger crisis in my household at present, as the said bag only lasts 2 weeks. As I speak to you, this has already been depleted in April this year. Since then, we rely on pieceworks where my husband, Yohane Sifa is at rightnow, to get food."

"I find financial constraints being the most challenging issue in my household. At the moment, I have 6 children in school; 3 of them are in college, 2 in high school, and 1 in grade 4. Their school fees have drained us financially and this has left us desperate. Since I am a subsistence farmer and my husband is a primary teacher, our combined incomes are hardly enough to cater to all the expenses and this means depending on unreliable bursaries to support our children. What a desperate life! This has robbed away my joy as a mother since I am always disappointed to see my children at home seeking school fees."

"The most recent transfer that I just received from gd I'm about to complete my house project. I furthermore bought some provisions for my home. I moreover think about starting a little business."