"Am just grateful and you should continue doing so"

"This year has been particularly challenging for me, as I have not been able to harvest any coffee, which is my main source of income. As a result, my children are being chased for school fees, and I am constantly worried about how I am going to provide for them. I have always wanted to boost my vegetable business, no money to invest in it.I know that it can change our lives for the better. To make matters worse, my area is prone to landslides, which makes my house flood whenever it rains, and I have to constantly repair the damages caused by the flooding."

"I have a shop business in the village. The market is good since there are only two shops in this village. The challenge I have is capital to enlarge my business. I only sell maize flour and other small items. I do not meet the needs of the customers fully due to lack of capital."

"I used to do substance family five years ago. Since then, the community has been experiencing drought. This makes it had for people to do crop farming. I started doing casual jobs for survival. I make $30 per month which caters to food and sometimes it is not even enough. I have been going without food for a while. Food shortage is the real challenge I am facing in life."

"The biggest problem we currently is landslides which destroy our gardens. both food crops and cash crops hence leaving us with food insecurity and poor incomes."

"What is making my life harder is the financial constraints that I am currently going through. It is so painful to watch my daughter out of school for more than a week. If I imagine how tough it is to cater to her primary school education at the moment, I always think about what will be the fate if she joins secondary school. From my charcoal work, the income is barely enough to sustain all our needs. Our combined efforts with my husband earn us utmost $42, and this is very hard to balance between paying school fees and food. To an extent, we are at times compelled to forfeit meals or survive on one. This has been a very depressive moment for me and it has always devoured my hope in life. What a worrying situation!"

"My life is becoming better and I thank Givedirectly for the financial support. I was able to buy a cow and the rest of the money was used in buying food and clothes for my family . We are a joyful family we eat three meals per day before we could not afford it."

"My life would be miserable , I was able to improve my standards of living in terms of buying a comfortable mattress, food for my family and renovated my house. I thank Givedirectly for the financial support we are now a happy family ."

"We currently face a problem of bad weather most especially when it rains, we are always affected by landslides and flash floods which destroy plantations both food crops and cash crops like coffee and bananas hence having food insecurity and poor income."

"The biggest challenge we face currently is poverty which is caused by flash floods which sweep a way good soils leading to poor yields and also destroy banana and coffee plantations hence leaving us with limited source of income."