"Lack of finances due to heavy rains that have affected crop production is my current challenge. I can no longer provide basic needs for my family"

"I expect to get a bumper harvest since after investing all my transfers on my farm. Farming is the source of my livelihood and that is why I concentrate a lot to ensure I get a bumper harvest. In the next six months, I am planning to sell some of my produce to get money to enable me to cater to the needs of my family like paying school fees."

"My biggest hardship currently is lack of finances to pay for school fees for my children. I normally rely on selling milk but currently the prices have dropped from 30 shillings to 20 shillings due to high supply."

"I was waken up by message from GiveDirectly confirming that money had already been sent . I was very happy since I knew most of my burden relating to finances were solved ."

"Being a housewife, i have always wished to support my husband in providing for the family, but lack of capital to start a business of selling second hand shoes has been an hindrance to reaching my goals making this the biggest hardship i face"

"Building a kitchen using 200$ as well as improving my house floor by installing tiles using 390$ of my transfer then buy three dairy heifers for milking that will earn me income in future is how i intend to use this money"

"Boosting my boutique business, paying school fees for my son in secondary school, initiating a poultry project to supplement income from my boutique business as well as buying maize for family consumption is what receiving this money means to me."

"It was 6 am when I received a message from Give Directly informing me that my Mpesa account has been credited. I was very happy since I have never handled such a huge sum of money as a donation. This was beyond my expectations. I immediately rolled out my plans which I had already set. Thanks to GiveDirectly"

"My life is currently different in a big way because I have a business. Before GiveDirectly, I always dreamed of starting a money lending business. From this business, I make money that I save in a large merry go round group. I also use part of it providing food and other essential items for my family."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is the fact that I am still a landowner. I had begun marketing a parcel of land that I had bought with my hard-earned money years before, because I needed about $ 1000 to pay for my children's' school fees. I most definitely could not raise this money by the time GiveDirectly arrived. I was going to sell it but GD saved me the agony that would have followed. I am living with lots of peace because I didn't get forced to let my farm to a friend of mine who had already applied for a bank loan in a feat to acquire it."