"The biggest hardship in my life is lack of enough support for sustaining my family and education of my children."

"The biggest hardship I face is lack of money for farming . I feel like expanding in Agricultural activities but I lack money to enhance it."

"The biggest hardship i have faced is lack of enough money to take good care of my family."

"The biggest hardship in my life is lack of enough support for sustaining my family welfare. "

"Receiving this money is a means of helping me to get household iterms which are missing in my house ."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life was lack of land on which I could grow food to feed my family and pay my children's school fees, this stressed me so much that I developed ulcers due to much thoughts."

"Receiving this money means that my children ,spouse and I will no longer have to sleep in our small crowded hut.It will also mean that I will beable to buy my own cow so that my children can get enough milk to nourish them.This money will enable me to buy building materials and hire someone to construct an iron roofed house.With the remainder,I will buy a dairy cow"

"As a skilled house builder, my desire has always been to master my acts and be able to get noticed not only within the village but even outside. But with the tough economical situations in our area, getting even a single contract is almost impossible; people are used to traditional village setup kind of houses. Now that people are going to receive GD transfers, most people are going change their lives in one way or the other, and building new structures is one of them. Overall,I foresee job opportunities coming through and this translates to sustainable income to my family.Going forward, I will no longer struggle to get contracts out there."

"Woke up at 6:30am, where I will prepare breakfast for my family, then i will do the house chores, maybe at around 1:00pm I will prepare lunch, then will wash dishes and my children, afterwards I will relax as I watch Nigeria movies, Telemundo which is my favourite. At around 6:30 go and look for supper and prepare it then later go to bed."

"Give Directly has given me hope when I felt all is over and my life could never get better than begging and living in poverty. In the next six months, I would really want to save for my family. This will help me provide for my family in future and plan well so that I do not go back to begging and the kind of poverty I was in before GD came to my life."