"The biggest hardship in my life is lack of enough support for my family welfare since I own very little land."

"The biggest hardship that I have faced is my inability to provide food for my family due to the long drought that affected our farm produce. This led to malnutrition and other diseases affecting my children for many months."

"The biggest hardship I have faced was loosing my sugarcane farm to arsonist that burnt down mu sugarcane before maturity yet the money I invested was borrowed cash. This has led to great stress to the family for we have to service the loan anyway."

"The biggest hardship I face in my life is that we currently face hunger as a family and the food we get is never enough. This is because of the bad weather and lack of proper farming tools. "

"The biggest hardship I face in my life is that I have two children who depend on me for school fees and at times I am not able to raise their tuition fees making them to stay at home while their peers are in school. "

"The biggest hardship I face in my life is that my house is very small and have two grown up children who are forced to sleep in my maize granary due to lack of a better shelter. "

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is lack of a stable source of income. My husband burns charcoal in the forest which is a very tedious job and fetches very little income which is not enough to cater for all our basic needs. "

"Receiving this money means I will be financially stable. I will use the transfers to buy my own oxen and an ox plough to enable me farm in large scale and provide enough food for my family. I will also engage in livestock trading that will help me earn income to cater for my children's education."

"After my wife and I divorced in 2012, my first born son came back to stay with me. He is so close to me and receiving this money means I am in a position to secure him a better future as far as his academic and social status is concerned. I am planning to build a more decent house for us since he is now grown. He is in standard 7 and will soon be joining secondary school. Consequently, I must make an investment in dairy farming so as to take him through tertiary level of education in a few years. I am striving to make ends meet since after he is successful, he is going to fend for me and his siblings later in life. I am optimistic about achieving this dream thanks to Give Directly. "

"My life would have been so miserable had I not received this cash transfer. My life has changed and I have a bright future ahead of me once I open up my veterinary shop with part of the cash transfer."