"The biggest hardship I have faced in life is inadequate finances to bring up my child. I have only one daughter who was diagnosed with yellow fever at birth after treating it she became disabled. Since then it has been difficulty to raise up funds for her medication and our daily needs since I have no one to depend on."

"Unemployment is the biggest challenge that I have ever faced in my life. Having a young family and still expecting more children in future without any source of a stable income makes me get worried about the future of my children. Waking up and just sitting at home disturbs me a lot. With the young children who need my attention, makes it difficult to even go out to look for casual jobs like washing other people's clothes since my children will want to follow me and may cry if I leave them behind. My husband also has no source of a stable income since he depends on casual jobs that earns him less than $20 a day. This has really contributed to us living a miserable life here."

"Unemployment is the biggest hardship that I have ever faced in my life. Since my husband who used to help us get food went missing, life has really been difficult for me. Being an illiterate woman makes it even worse to get a job since there are no reliable jobs in the village. Furthermore, I cannot travel to town to look for jobs because I have younger children who need my attention on a daily basis. The charcoal business that I depend on again is not reliable since I can sell two sacks of charcoal once or twice a week which earns me around $20 then take two to three weeks without selling any. This has made life more miserable for my family."

"The biggest hardship is lack of money to pay school fees for my children. My husband does not support us in anyway despite the fact he has a casual job in town. I have to use the $60 that I receive from working as a house help to pay school fees for my children. It is not enough and this worries me a lot. I do not want my children to drop out of school."

"My house is leaking a lot. Last year 2020 during the long rain season on May I spent a sleepless night with my family. That cause me pneumonia due to the cold and the water drops. That is the biggest hardship I faced in life."

"My biggest plan, for now, is to renovate my current house which the roof is leaking making it very uncomfortable to live in. The house is old and since the roofing is old, I cannot harvest rainwater. This will cost me 50 dollars. For the remaining amount, I'll purchase a water tank since the one I have is small, it cannot store enough water for domestic use and farm use. This will also cost me 30 dollars."

"I have always own a dairy cow. Currently I don't own any, I purchase milk costing me 10 dollars a month. I'm a peasant farmer heavily depending on small scale farming. My farm is quite small and largely unproductive, it cannot sustain my family's needs. With this money, I plan to purchase a cow which will cut the cost of buying milk. This will cost me 300 dollars. The remaining amount I will build a bigger better house for my growing family. Currently we're three, but in the near future, my family may expand and good spacious house will be needed."

"I spent part of the money I received from GiveDirectly on buying three goats and a heifer. This is an investment because I will sell them when the reproduce to pay school fees for my children. I also build a poultry house. I am yet to start a poultry keeping project to earn an income by selling eggs. The rest of the money I paid school fees for my niece who is in secondary school. I am so grateful for the support because GiveDirectly has changed our living standard."

"In my opinion, GiveDirectly does well by giving them money to buy dairy cows and to build a better house. I do not find anything that GiveDirectly did not do well."

"Receiving this money means source of income for me. First, I have one cow that I was given by my father, the cow gives me 5 liter's a day and that means I have ksh 150 a day. My plan is to buy a Dairy cow Worth ksh 45,000 which can give me 10 liter's of milk a day hence by selling milk I'll make around ksh 500 a day and the income will meet my household demands. The remaining amount I'll add to my small business of selling cereals in kabuson center."