"My biggest hardship was when I complete my secondary education and lack money to finance my further studies."

"My biggest hardship is sustained My family welfare and education."

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

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is lack of college fees.I completed my secondary education in 2017 and my grades were good enough to enable me take a course but this hasnt been possible because of lack of money to finance my college education,I had to resort to getting married to reduce the hopelessness that I had, the sad part of it is that marriage life is tough too."

"My biggest hardship is meeting my family basic requirements like food, better housing , education and medical bills."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is the demise of my mother ten years ago.We were still young then and we really needed her,apart from missing motherly love we could not even get basic needs and education,this has greatly affected me since I solely rely on casual labour and meeting my family's needs is getting tough."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life was losing my husband. My children could not attend school like others since they spend most of their time home due to lack of school fees. I am the only bread winner and I had to sell all the our cattle that my husband left so as to cater for my family's needs like food, clothing and education. "

"The biggest hardship I face is continuous struggle to provide basic needs such as food, shelter and primary education to my children."

"I have been having a problem in paying School fees and now getting this money mean I will be able to pay it without much problem. My husband is a teacher and he usually pay School fees using his salary which is hardly enough to meet the education expenses forcing us to sell our cows. We now remain with only one cow and we have been thinking on how we will meet the education expenses but we thank God for GiveDirectly for coming at the right time."

"In the next six months my life will have chnaged because the children will have completed education . I will have taken two through and they will be ready to work so that our family get better income ."