"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life was losing my mother at the age of 5. This forced me to live with my step mother who never allowed me to realize my dream of becoming a plant operator as she never paid my primary school fees. This forced me to drop out of school in standard four and denied me a chance to further my education hence could not become a plant operator. "

"Receiving this money means to invest in to education. I have children that are yet to join secondary schools and this money will be of great help in paying their school fees. "

"The biggest hardship in my life is lack of enough support for sustaining my family welfare and education."

"My biggest hardship is lack of money to cater for my son's educational needs."

"My biggest hardship in life is failed with my education. "

"My biggest hardship is lack of money to cater for my children's educational needs."

"Receiving this money means that I will be able to buy a ploughing machine and cow which will relieve me from spending a lot of manual labour and time in preparing my land. I will be able to pay school fees for my child using part of the transfer in order to allow him to spend much time in school and get good education like other kids."

"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. "

"Receiving this money means that I will be able to buy some bulls (cows) and also further my grand children's education. "