"It adds to 5 months now since the death of my husband whom has long been the sole breadwinner for the family. Since his demise, I assumed the role of providing the family with the basic needs something that has forced me to opt charcoal burning as my source of income. This job is very tedious and low paying but since I have no other option, I am compelled to do it in order to sustain my children in school and also to put food on the table. Therefore, I consider lack of a reliable source of income as my biggest hardship."

"Being illiterate, I have wished to educate my children so that they may have a bright future. I have not fulfilled this desire due to inadequate finances. Receiving this money means fulfillment of my longing since I am planning to spend 500 USD on clearing their school fees. Currently, two of my children are in secondary school."

"In 2018, I sold the only two Friesian dairy cattle i had to educate my spouse who latter cleared school and eloped with another man leaving me desperate. This is what made me lag behind in terms of development now that i thought she could clear school, get employed and support me in developing my family. I am now struggling to rise up again after the loss by practising farming so as to make ends me but it is so dissapoinying that my 0.5 acre piece of land is unproductive due to unpredictable rains as well as soil borne diseases. This is the biggest hardship i face"

"Receiving this money comes as a relief for me since I have always wanted to complete constructing my 2 roomed house and also to buy a cow for my family. I will therefore use the transfers to accomplish these two major priorities."

"Financial constraint is my biggest hardship. This is attributed to the fact that I am a house wife and the entire family depends on my husband for a living, yet he is a casual labourer. This has negatively affected our living status in terms of providing basic. It is due to this that we live under a very poor shelter. As if this is not enough, hunger is the order of the day in my family especially during dry seasons. I cannot even afford school fees and my children are often sent back home."

"If not give directly I could not have managed to buy machine for cutting grass and I am very sure I could not have manage to have a source of income."

"If I could not have received money from give directly I could still be staying in a very small house since I could not have managed to build a spacious house."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that l am now staying in a iron roofed house where I am never worried about rainnny seasons compared to before when I used to be worried more so when it used to rain when I was not at home. I have earn a name in the village, I am now able to interact, socialize and share with my agemates something that I was just longing for."

"If I could not have received the money I could still have been staying in a very small thatched leaky house, but now I am the most happiest person because of the type of the house I am staying. "

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that l no longer borrow seats from my neighbors as used to do before and for that reason I am not living in embarrassment life any more."