"The achievement I am most proud of is having built a bigger iron roofed house for myself despite being a widow. My husband died fifteen years ago and left me in a very small grass thatched house that could not accommodate all my children as they continued to grow into adults. I am now proud of my house as my children have separate rooms to sleep in"

"The achievement I am most proud of is being able to take care of my children by providing for them food, shelter and clothing. I was left a widow at a tender age and picking up the responsibilities of catering for the children plus loneliness weighed heavily on me. "

"In the next six months,I expect my life to change as I am hopeful that I shall have known how to make hair and make more profits."

"In 2017, my wife, Mercy felt so sick that she was admited in hospital for almost a month. Unfortunately, this came when I had no money at all, and I had to beg from my fellow villagers. This came to be my biggest hardship that I pray for it not to come again."

"The moment i recieved my money, i felt so happy and thanked God for bringing givedirectly to our village. "

"I spent my transfer on buying a motorbike KSH 100,000, to use to get your daily income,to support my family."

"our proudest achievement in our family is time we management to purchase cows, this has assist us a lot because we sell milk and buy food and other household materials."

"I plan to start keeping livestock and I believe with the money from Givedirectly I will accumulate enough money to help me start that"

"The biggest hardship we have faced in our family was when our cows dead, this was the only source of our income to pay school fee for children, buy food for family. It forced me to withdraw my children from private school to public school."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months since i will have bought a cow .I will have planted maize in my leased farm and for the first time,i will be accumulating savings in order to buy apiece of land."