"The biggest hardship I am facing is raising the children alone since I am a widow.I have no other person assisting me yet the children need basic needs."

"The biggest hardship is not having enough food to feed my family and this has made most of my children at times to become sick.This has hindered agricultural works within my family because we have to take time off to make sure our children get medical treatment with all its associated costs."

"Recieving this money means that I will be able to purchase atleast four bulls to aid agricultural work.Since I stoped schooling because my parents failed to pay my school fees, I embarked on agriculture as a way to help myself.With the bulls I will purchase, it means I will be able to cultivate a large pieace of land due to increase in labour force and therefore my yields will be high.The balance of the money, I also plan to erect a small house for myself since the costs of maintaining a grass thatched hut is very high."

"The biggest hardship is not having a family which I see as a challenge because I am living a single life and its challenging in that sometimes I get lazy to work hard."

"It was a normal morning and one of my friends called inquiring if I had received some money. I checked and found out that indeed, I had received the transfer that had been promised by Give Directly. I got very excited and passed the wonderful news to my family!"

"My biggest hardship is lack of oxen in order to support in animal traction. In my culture, we use oxen to support in traction because the tractors are very expensive to hire. In case you need to hire oxen, it's relatively cheaper but not sustainable in a long run."

"Receiving this money means I will be able to complete the construction of my house. I started to build six years back but lacked money to carry on with the work. I also hope to buy oxen that will support in cultivation and a cow that will provide milk for my family. I believe life will change to the positive. "

"Receiving this money means having educated children that are empowered to survive on their own. I will be able to pay school fees for my children in time which will make them better citizens who in turn will support my household at old age.Currently, I have three children at school and there is a challenge in paying their school fees. Their father is a teacher who gets little money that can not pay off all the tuition in time hence some are sent home due to non payment of school fees."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is living alone as a widow. I have to think and work hard to cover up for the missing husband. Some times I do casual labour just to make ends meet."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is limited land for cultivation. I leased a bigger portion of my land so as to raise money that would facilitate my marriage. This left me with almost nothing to cultivate. I have a very small portion which is not enough to sustain me. I farm less and harvest less. As I speak now, I have just a meal in a day and yet I really have to work hard."