"Financial insecurity is the main challenge that I am facing. My husband is a teacher and at the same time doing his degree at Mount Kenya University. He borrowed a loan of $5000 to finance his education and as a result of that $180 is deducted from his salary every month. The remaining amount from his salary is $100 which cannot sufficiently cater for school fees for our child, food, and clothing. Every month he sends me $20 which I add to my $50 salary from my teaching job. I take foodstuff from shopkeepers with a promise to pay by every end month and I have gotten to a point I feel like I am a slave."

"I am suffering from curvature of the spine that began 10 years ago and this has affected my walking posture. Because of this, I cannot engage in any activity to generate income making me dependent on other people to run even small errands. I have not sought medication due to lack of money. I went to the hospital last year in December but I came back unattended because I could not raise $100 that was required for an X-ray"

"The transfers have brought a big difference in my life. I was running a restaurant and doing so well until when the country faced the pandemic and the situation forced me to close up. My husband left me with two children and with nothing. The support program is a gift and a blessing to me because I have started all over again and I can provide a meal for my children, which was a struggle before. It’s unbelievable that I own two businesses. What more could I ask for? I would like the organization to continue supporting people living in poverty and changing their lives as they changed mine."

"Food insecurity is a major challenge that we are currently faced with. We are a household of 9 and we have a small piece of land measuring 0.5 acres. This is hardly enough to till and do dairy farming at the same time. As such, we are forced to use the land for keeping our dairy cow as it is not enough to carry out maize farming, we are forced to buy the commodity at the nearby Kapkwen market which is expensive and sometimes unaffordable. It worries us a lot since we are people of little means who live from hand to mouth. Sometimes we do not get the money to buy it and we go to bed hungry. Such a life of destitution!"

"The biggest difference in my daily life now is, I am able to provide for my children needs now. I am also able to start building my three bed room apartment in my village. I can now support my family, before then my husband and I wasn't having money to support our children in school, but now our children are all health and in school now."

"The biggest difference in my life is that things had improve for I'm my old man, looking at my age and to get such amount free of charge, this looks like I'm dreaming. I'm my old will be able to eat on time ,like before eating on time was a problem for us, i use to crack Palm nut and produce oil before we eat."

"When I withdraw my money I was paid my son school fees. I also give my son 75 usd to buy his school materials. The rest of my transfer I was able to paid people to cleaned under my coco farm."

"Give Directly was a miracle in my life. The funds came at the time I needed them. They enrolled me when I was still pregnant and used to work as a charcoal burner, which was not ideal for my condition. At the time of delivery, my husband had nothing, and we even planned to deliver my child at home, which is risky. I will forever be grateful for the support program. I see nothing that the organization is not doing well."

"I would like to expand my current business. Initially, I wanted to open a grocery which would cost me a lot more than what I used with my current business. The combination of a vegetable stall and a grocery would increase my income, which would allow me to accomplish my long-term goals like buying a plot and building my house."

"I have shop businesses selling variety of shop items. I started with a capital of $5 on January 2022. It has grown well such that I am now having a capital of $200. The business has had a challenge of debt defaulters in the past one month. I have customers who have been taking items on credit and currently, I have around $100 that I will never recover from the defaulter. That is the challenge I am currently facing."