""The challenge I'm currently facing is lack of money. My household is involved into farming, but the proceeds from the farm is not enough to cater to my household needs and at the same time build a house and send my children to school"."

""My household doesn't own a house which have caused us to scatter in a single room in one of my neighbor house. When I receive my transfer from GiveDirectly, I will use portion of it to build a house for my family, and portion of it will also be used to send my children to school and the remaining invested in a small business that could serve as a source of income to cater to my household needs"."

"The challenge I'm facing currently is money issue. I want to send my children to school but no money. It has been two years since my oldest daughter graduated from high school, she has been crying on me everytime that she wants to go to collage but I don't have any money; also my little daughter is playing at home everyday because there's no money as well to pay her school fees. For that reason, my mind has been troubled. By GiveDirectly giving me this money, I believed my problems will be solved."

""My major challenge is finance to get my children in school, My husband and I have been making garden to raise money for our family but the proceeds from the garden is not enough to cater to our household needs and at the same time send our children to school"."

"I am a farmer, I have three separate farms that are very big. But because of the road connectivity, I highly take the produce to sell, the distances are very far , most of the produce from the farm are use for eating. Because of this lack of finance has been my major challenge. I need money to send my children to school, build a house and do other spending."

""I want to rebuild my house and send my children to school, I was into farming before but couldn't generate enough money to build my house to standard and send my children to school"."

"I am home with no money to make business, the little farm my husband and myself have, we use the produce for feeding. With the cash transfer, I will use portion of the money to build a mini shop and start a business by selling some goods that are in demand. With the sales, I will safe some to money to build my house and have a good life in the future."

""I want to buy my zinc to reroof the house and modernize it. I want to send my children to school as well and build another house in Cestos City, because my husband and I are getting older and might not be able with farming in years to come"."

"I have lot of expenses but due to lack of money, I can not provid the help for my children. My major challenge is lack of finance. We are two woman on my husband and he is not working, there is no much help coming from him towards my children and I. therefore, I can not provide daily meal for my children and I , many days we go to bed on empty stomach."

"Financial insecurity has become a predicament in our family. With no constant source of income, I am struggling with the education of my four children. My firstborn daughter is in form one when I am required to play 60,000 KES annual. What scares me the most is the other two daughters who are going to sit for their primary exam come March this year. I am not certain that I will be able to meet the inflated school fees then."