"Lack of sufficient food is the main challenge. Our area is largely dry, we receive low seasonal rains hence affecting farming. We purchase nearly all foodstuff including maize flour and it is very costly and we depend on the sale of milk for income. We do not have any formal job."

"Things was very difficult for me and my family, my wife doing small business right now."

"Even though I'm often able to find construction work, I don't get picked to do the well paying tasks because I have not attained any formal training in masonry. I get paid KES 250-300 on the days I work and someone with experience and training doing the same work gets about KES 800. The difference in our income is a lot because I am not guaranteed that everyday I will be called for a job and paid and so it is not easy to sustain myself."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that since I started receiving money from GiveDirectly, I stopped going to the forest to look for logs and trees to cut down and burn charcoal because it was such a tedious job with very little or nothing in return. However, I am now very grateful I will have goats that I will be tending to instead of going to the forest. All thanks to GiveDirectly."

"The challenge I am facing currently is financial constraints. The business I am operating now is not doing good and the income I get from it is not enough to pay school fees for my children and buy foodstuffs for the family. Sometimes they are sent home but I do not have anything to give them, this disturbs me a lot."