"Lack of reliable source of income is the challenge I am currently facing. I do casual jobs earning approximately $100 per month which caters for food and school fees online. This has made me live in a house that has grass roof and I lack the capacity to build a spacious one."

"Give directly is the best, it has helped me and I'm grateful, nothing should be changed."

"My living conditions changed when I received give directly money, so I hope to sell a calf from my cow then put up a house on my land as I'm staying at a relative's house in a risky area because my home was washed away by the landslides of 2022 in August."

"Give directly has helped us to relocate to better places. We just appreciates the way give directly operates and should continue with its methodology. May God continue to bless the donors"

"GD giving out cash is far much better than giving tangible goods because with cash, they have a choice of buying their own items GD leaving out people who were not at home when GD staff first came to village and carried out mapping is not good, some go to Kenya to hustle, when they hear that GD has visited their village, they try to rush and come back but are not included in the program"

"Hopes to aquire land and build a house, after selling cattle she has bought"

"I now have a piece of land. My family is fine. I can now buy land and build a house in a safe place"

"By the end of the year, I aim to make goat rearing my primary investment. To accomplish this, I plan to increase the number of goats, improve their shelter, and even expand it to accommodate more livestock in the future."

"In the coming months, my objective is to harvest the maize from my three-acre field, store it appropriately, and wait for the optimal time to sell before the year ends. The revenue from this sale will enable me to plant beans in the subsequent planting season."

"The most significant change in my life at the moment is that I'm in a transformative phase, constructing a new home and fostering comfort within my family. These were developments I hadn't anticipated occurring so soon."