"I have a grandson who in secondary school and the mother is not able to pay his school fees being that she is unemployed, so most of the third transfer I spent paying his school fees. The little remaining out of it, I spent on feeding my household members. I bought corn as at that time there was hunger and the prices of flour had escalated so much. My family could now comfortably feed on the corn. I would only encourage Give Directly to continue helping others like me, I am so grateful."

"Receiving this money means i will be able to do business for example buying beans and maize, stock then sell at a later time when prices have risen, buying and selling of goats. I also hope that i will be able to buy a cow and build a house for myself."

"I spent my second transfer on paying school fee for my children in both primary and secondary school. Secondly, I purchased 22 bags of beans that I planned to sell during drought season when prices for beans have gone so high. I therefore expect double the total amount I invested."

"My biggest hardship is how to find money to buy food for my family. Prices of goods have really gone up to the extent that I can't meet all my needs because I depend on farm produce and we've been unlucky this time round due to the drought that stroke our area. "

"The happiest part of my day is in the evening when I am selling fish at the market. The atmosphere is usually very lively as sellers and buyers bargain prices and this makes me very jovial. "

"The biggest hardship I faced is lack of enough food to feed my family. Sometimes we are forced to skip meals due to hiked prices of food stuffs in the market."

"The biggest hardship we have faced is the struggle to get basic meals in a day due to the prices that have sky rocketed. This has made us miss some meals in a day."

"By the time the first transfer was sent to use, there was famine in our location and food prices were very high. Being that I had no food in the house, I used most of the money to buy 2 sacks of dry maize and the rest spent on other small food items for my family."

"When I received my first transfer, I spent it on food. We never had corn, prices had gone high that we couldn't manage to afford and therefore I considered this a great help to us."

"My biggest hardship in life is getting our daily meal. I did not get any yields last season and food prices are also high."