"The biggest hardest I have faced in life is lack of support, more so money to continue with my education, this has disturbed me alot wondering what my future will be tomorrow. "

"The biggest harship I have faced in my life is my father's death because it shattered down my education journey since my father was the only source of my school fees and needs."

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of a sustainable source of income. I am just a casual worker and the income I get is hardly enough to cater for my family's basic needs and education. This means that my family has to do without a lot of basic needs like nutritious food and quality education as they are often sent home from school due to my inability to pay school fees."

"Receiving this money means my son is going to complete his secondary school education because I am going to pay all his school fees arrears. I am also going to have a new source of income since I have plans of starting a business. "

"I have goals of doing more and improve farming, of giving my children a better environment for education in terms of the required facilities to aid their education.I also have goal of having a cow in my family."

"The happiest part of my day is when my children attend school in the morning after getting the necessary school requirements like books and food. This satisfies me every day since it consoles me who got limited chances of getting education."

"I spent the larger part of my third transfer on paying school fees for my two children who were in high school and now I am proud that out of Givedirectly support one of them who is my daughter was able to finished her high school education last year.I also bought a sofa seat set and started a small scale fish vending business to boost my household income ."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is being unemployed because of the limited education I acquired and I have limited access to adequate capital. Being unemployed lowers my standards of living."

"Getting this money means changing my standard of living within my household, I will be in position to build a new house which has been my long term plan and also my children will have acess to better education because I will be in position to pay their school fees as the only way to prepare them for the better future."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is dropping out of school.My dream was to complete at least secondary education but I dropped out in my first year in secondary school due to lack of school fees.I feel that I could be struggling less to feed my two children if I had completed secondary education."