"In the next six months, I will have bought a cow and settled my daughters school fees in advance."

"The moment I received my transfer I was very excited.I knelt down and prayed because it was a miracle to me,I had never received such amount of money from anyone in my life."

"In the next six months l expect to have started saving for my project of plastering my house."

"My biggest hardship has been going to the sugar farms to seek for opportunities to cut cane or weed them and many a times I get back home not taken for the days job, whenever this happened I would end up going a day without meals."

"I intend to pay school fees for my two girls in secondary school and another who is joining them next year. I have always had the passion of ensuring that my children get the best education because I dropped out in class six due to lack of fees. I do not have any livestock hence I plan to buy two cows which would help me in getting fresh milk for my family and also plough my farm during the planting season. "

"My husband succumbed to cancer on September. He suffered for two years, a situation that drained our financial resources. My son who is the only bread winner could not sustain the family anymore due to huge hospital bills. This condition forced us to sell all the livestock in order to generate more money but we did not make it. Since then we have not recovered and we are still facing financial hardships. This makes it difficult to meet family needs and in most cases we go without food."

"My husband died thirteen years ago and left me with five children. I took the responsibility of raising my children singlehandedly through casual jobs that earn me at least one dollar a day. The lack of a sustainable source of income has made it difficult for me to educate my children. Four of them had to drop out of primary school and they now work as casual labourers. "

"I have been diabetic since 2000 and my treatment has always been a burden to me financially. Since i got sick in have not been able to do farming well yet that was my main source of income. Due to this i have had difficulties paying school fees for my grandsons but i will always find ways to ensure that they realise their dreams."

"This year, our area has been hit by drought and there had been hardly any food for our cows to feed on leading to low milk production. The cows have been our source of income because we sell milk at in tough times we can sell a cow so as to use the money to meet our needs . When "

"My life is different than I would have been without Give Directly cash transfer in that, there is less stress in supporting the orphans."