"The biggest hardship is inadequate food ,maize no longer do well like before ,many a times they are affected by pest and disease. Also our area is dry most of the time and therefore maize does not do well. This leaves us with the option of buying from the market,sometimes it is not affordable . My husband is a casual labourer and I am a house wife.The income we get cannot sustain us well .we live each day with this challenge expecting things to change for the better."

"Most of the time we are faced with famine . We depend on maize for subsistence purpose but for sometime now they do not do well because of the maize lethal necrosis disease . Each day is a struggle to put food on the table ,the little money we get from casual jobs goes towards purchasing of 2 Kilograms of maize that we need to cater for the day . It is against this background that we are hardly left with some money for other expenses. Life has really beaten us ,we are always struggling."

"I spent part of my first transfer on buying building materials which include, pieces of iron sheets, nails, timber, building poles, and threads This was for the construction of a new house becasue the previous one was very small with a leaky roof. In a family of five, some of us had to seek from our relatives. Also, I bought bedding such includes a mattress and a bed at KES 10900 this was to replace the old ones. With the remaining amount of money, I bought enough foodstuffs for my family and some decent clothes for my children."

"My day-to-day desire has always been, to build a more spacious and comfortable house for my family of 6, since we all currently live in this small one-roomed grass-thatched hut. I will therefore use $300 of my transfer to actualize this dream. Buying a dairy cow worth $350 of my transfer and buying sufficient foodstuffs for my family, more so maize and beans to feed on till the next harvest season is also what receiving this money means to me."

"The biggest hardship am facing in my life is employment.i have been jobless for 2 years now and am bread winner to my family.They have been facing so many problems for lack of money. It's been so hard for me to stay home day times because am worried my wife may be mad at me."

"My biggest hardship in life is lack of employment.I have been jobless for several years,the work that i usually do is burning charcoal which brings little income to carter for my family."

"Receiving this money means good education to my kids.Through this money my children will be able to school well especially the one that completed form four this year and he need to join college next year."

"Receiving this money means a better future to my children since my desire has been to educate them to university. I have ever been worried of realizing this dream but with the arrival of GiveDirectly to our village, I am optimistic about materializing my ambition. My plan once I receive this money is to spend my first transfer of Ksh 55000 to pay all school fees for my 2 children who are in secondary school. This will give them the opportunity to settle in school and hence, a better performance. With the second transfer, I intend to spend it to buy 3 indigenous dairy cows that will act as my investment project to support my children's education in the future."

"At my age of 61 years, am still forced to do charcoal work in order to get money for our upkeep. This job is very tiresome and sometimes I complain body pain yet it's income is very low, usually $30 per month . Therefore, I consider lack of a stable source of income as my biggest hardship."

"Receiving this money means good education to my three children. I have two children in high school . They are in form 3 and have a school balance of Ksh.16000. I have no job I do only subsistence farming and my husband is a caretaker at Delivarence church in Mariakani and he earns only Ksh.5000 per month. He cannot afford paying the school fees. Getting the money will ensure that I clear the balance and pay all the school fees for the fourth which is Ksh.33000 for all the two children. I will use the remaining amount to buy a door for my house and change my house from muddy to a permanent one."