"I was very happy when I received the money because no one has ever given me such a good amount of cash. Thanks to GiveDirectly."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now have a more spacious and better house that doesn't leak as the previous one and I also feel better that I got a chance to give a hand in paying school fees for my children who are being assisted by their step father."

"My biggest hardship is lack of money to own an iron roof house.The current grass thatched house where I sleep leaks because it was destroyed by termites.These days, every time it rains, it means sleepless nights"

"The biggest hardship i have faced is lack of money to facilitate my household's needs, most especially medical bills.I hardly take a fortnight without any of my family members falling sick.This is so stressing in that, most of our family income ends up in clinics."

"The biggest hardship i have faced is deteriorating health due to frequent illness and old age.This has affected my productivity when it comes to farming, an economic activity that my household fully depends on."

"Receiving this money will help me to pay more two garden since I have one ,which was given to me by my father and the balance I will use for paying dowary for marriage."

"Receiving this money will help my family to buy land for farming since we don't have farming land and the balance I will use for building two room permanent house."

"The biggest hardship I face is lack of money for paying school fees, buying food and paying medical bills."

"The biggest hardship I face in my family is sickness. Especially when some one falls sick,you will not have immediate help interms of money to offer medical assistance to some one at home."

"The biggest hardship I face is famine due to bad climate changes brought by many factors like drought and this has affect my family food basket."