"I live with these grandchildren because their parents are too poor to raise them in town. Despite bringing them here, I am not assisted enough to make sure they are well fed. Hence,that has been my main challenge ever since;feeding these children."

"My son got sick like misala (Madness) but now he is recover and this was a biggest hardship I faced because it was hard to look after him."

"The biggest hardship I've faced is the lack of food in my house that sometimes I have to beg from my parents. I also need to buy decent clothes for my family. I'm so grateful to be enrolled in the program because the money will really help my family."

"We struggle to get money to raise our children."

"We live in a small house. This money will give us what we need to build a bigger and better house. We are so grateful to Givedirectly"

"I am so happy to receive these funds from GD. This is an opportunity for me to build a new house with iron sheets and also buy food in my home. My house fell off last rainy season and i have not been able to mend it as I do not have money"

"I am so happy to be receiving this money from GD. I will use this money to buy cement so that I complete my house."

"2hwh"

"Finishing my house and improving the roof with ironsheet and the walls with cement is what receiving this money means to, i would like the house to stand for more years to come so that my children should not suffer when iam gone and if possible some money remains i would like to buy beddings because where i and my family sleep is not a health place to spend the whole night"

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is not having enough food. This year things have been really hard for me. I only harvested 2 bags of maize so I had no hope until this program."