"My husband is a high school teacher and I am a stay-at-home parent. Together, we live with our two children and my two brothers. The support program has brought a big difference in my life. The first transfer came when we were broke and my first project was building a kitchen for $250 and a toilet for $160. The toilet was incomplete because had to pay school fees of $90 and the remaining $100 was used to buy food and water. The other transfer of $220 was used to complete the plastering and flooring of two bed-sitters that we started years ago, but due to lack of funds unable to complete them. I also paid $50 school fees for the rest of the term for all the children in school and used $50 to buy more food and water for the construction project. My sister’s child had a medical bill, and I contributed $50 and used $20 as transport to visit her while they admitted her. I spent the remaining $150 to buy the whole family some new clothes."

"I would like to accomplish the goal of buying a 50x100 plot that I can build in the future. I have researched and I can get a plot for $500. The plot would mean that my sisters and I have a place of our own. Currently, we live on a piece of land that belongs to my mother’s family. In our African culture, they rarely consider women to inherit the piece of land, hence I fear my uncles will one day chase us from this house. It is my prayer to have a place that we can run to as a family."

"The challenge is when it rains heavily water comes from underground and it fills the house. That makes me and my children to fall sick from time to time . The fire place gets cold I can't cook using firewood."

"The biggest challenges is when i t heavy rains , I get worried that the land might cover our house anytime. I live in fear, the rain washed my garden which was in makunda village , it had cassava, banana and coffee plantations , so right now we struggle to get what to eat. We also neighbour Nakokolo River everything it rains it gets full and it floods."

"The biggest challenge I face is when it rain heavily , the house gets so cold which make my family fall sick of malaria most times , the house also leaks from up so water enters the house. We are worried that landslides can happen any time because we live in the neighbouring villages."

"The challenges I encounter is am always worried that when rains the landslides can happen anytime . Water comes comes from underground which makes the house too cold and we fall sick from time to time because that condition"

"I depend on a business that deals with groceries and I have been facing challenges with an unpredictable business environment which you find mostly that today it is favorable then within a few weeks it becomes unfavorable again. I have a family of four and everything in this household looks up to me because I am a widow. This includes school fees, clothing, and food which cost about $500 annually. The availability of groceries determines how my business performs but most of the time the groceries are unavailable and this affects my business a lot. On a typical month when business is good, I would make $50 which is enough to cater to our needs. On a bad month as well which is so common lately, I can only make $20 and this forces me to do casual jobs to supplement my income. I wish I could have a continuous supply of vegetables but it is not possible and the only thing I could do is produce the myself but I haven't done so due to insufficient amount of money from my income."

"I have been ailing from a chronic condition for the past ten years. It is a condition that has drained me financially, and my only son has been a pillar in my life. Therefore, since I began receiving my transfers, they have been in handy in terms of helping me to meet my medical costs. As the year progresses, my primary goal is to continue to use my transfer to buy food and drugs. I hope with constant medication and food availability, I will be able to register an improvement in my health condition. That has been my prayer, and since I began receiving my transfer, I have been very grateful to GiveDirectly for its financial aid."

"I have had this plan for a very long time, but my lack of funds prevented me from completing it previously. I would like to have at least four chickens by the end of the year. With one already, my goal is to use the next transfers to acquire more and expand the flock. When these birds grow, I'll be able to sell them to buy goats, which I'll then sell to raise funds for a new house for myself. My current house is in poor condition and could collapse at any time."