"Food insecurity is the biggest hardship in my life. My husband is 70 years old and farming using the old ways is very labor-intensive. I am the only hope for my family when it comes to weeding the farm which has resulted to poor produce. This has forced us to constantly change our meals from 3 to 2 meals per day."

"My desire is food security in my home. I therefore plan to purchase oxen and an ox plough at a cost of 44,000 shillings to expand my farming so I can adequately feed my family. The balance will go into my son's secondary education."

"Receiving this money means a dignified retirement for me. I do not want to spend my remaining days on earth living in poverty and over reliance on my children. Thus, much of my transfers will be invested in indigenous livestock specifically cows and goats to serve as financial security for future needs. I will also replace my roof which is old and tattered so I can sleep in a safe house."

"My husband left me with eight children that I had to raise single handedly. Since then my job has been burning charcoal and the much I get is 1000 shillings a month. This situation made it difficult to educate them and only one managed to complete primary education. This forced my daughters to get married at a tender age because life was very difficult at home. My sons are working as casual labourers and they are suffering too. I feel like I failed as a parent but there is nothing I could do about it. All this resulted from lack of from support my spouse."

"I expect my life to improve by an additional source of income. In the next six months, I will open a clothes business in a nearby town. this will then help me rake in a little more money that will go into use to meet my family's household needs."

"I have been aspiring to own a cow and thus receiving this money mean I will be able own a cow. I have been buying milk for my family and it is costly on my side. I use around 0.2 USD daily to buy milk and yet I have a place where I can keep my own. Thanks to Give Directly since I will soon own a cow and improve the living standard of my family."

"In the next six months, I am hopeful that I will have cleared my children's school fees and I will have planted more tea leaves seedlings. I expected to be living a better life in that my mind will be relaxed and sober to handle other activities since I will have tacked the major I have planned for."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have saved enough to buy a piece of land to do horticulture farming. This project will also earn me an income by selling the produce at the market."

"I expected my life to be better in the next four months in that I will have harvested some of my crops. I expect to have enough food in my store to take my family until the next harvesting season. I am hoping that I have renovated my house and will be more decent unlike now."

"I expect to have started the tea business in the next six months. I would wish to have established a reliable source of income. Having an additional income will enable me to provide enough food for my family. As I look for money from other casual work, I will be in a position to create self-employment for my wife. She will be supervising those harvesting tea and also ensure they are transported to the factory."