"Give Directly has empowered us financially, such that i have been able to work on the things that really mattered in my house without being forced."

"" I will invest some of my money in my house to completely as you can see the condition of it. I will also be able to send my children to school. I have four children and town are currently here but are talking care of their mother in the sick bush."

"I have been struggling for survival and to help sustain my family and myself for so many years now. However, if I'm successful for Give Directly Cash transfer program, I want to use the money to built my house and also established a business that will help us in the future because I know that Give Directly will not always be giving us money forever."

"I have lots of challenges but the one I considered to be the biggest is, my house, as you can clearly see, I'm living in a building that is not in good condition. Even by getting my daily bread has become a pronlem due to the current financial constraints that I am faced with, I didn't get better food to eat yester it was later that I got green banana last night to eat after spending the whole day hungry."

"The challenges we currently face with is financial constrain. Now that almost everyone in the village are surviving through coal making it is difficult to get wood to burn, because no forest to get more wood and burn enough coal."

"The challenges we face with is getting daily needs. When our cassava is ready for harvest we have to sell before getting food to eat, and sometimes when we take the cassava to the market no buyers, we will have to stay hungry for the whole day or ask family member for food to feed the children."

"" Since I lost my husband and five (5) of my children, I have not been myself, moreover my husband was my last hope who just died November 03, 2020. Things are very hard. As I speak to you, I haven't eaten since this morning. Maybe neighbors will send my food this afternoon when they are back from the farm"."

"" My children are currently living with other relatives for which I'm not happy about but I don't have money to take care of them. I will use the money to take my children back and make sure they go back to school. I will use portion of the money to start a business that will provide for my family as well.""

"" Getting food to eat right now is not an easy thing for us. My husband and I are not working right as such, getting our basic needs have been a major challenge.!"

"The major challenge on me now is financial challenge. I don't have money to complete high school. And the reason money is my challenge is, like the farming activities I am involved in here, the soil is not too fertile to produce more yields from what I plant ; mainly like the cassava. Also besides the soil not being fertile, the crops too doesn't have good price now when I take it to the Market."