"The challenges that am facing are not having enough money to buy food for my family since my husband is polygamous and doesn't sometimes provide me enough money."

"The moment when i received my money i was very happy because that was end of my poverty. I have been living in poverty throughout my life such tbat life was unbearable. So having received the transfer from GiveDirectly was opening a new chapter in my life. The money was so huge and enough to alleviate all my problems."

"I am currently facing food insecurity in my home. I live alone and since my age cannot allow me to do any casual jobs, I sometimes go without taking some meals. This has really made my health to deteriorate and I am now sickly."

""I am a very poor farmer living in this town. I have been struggling to send my three children to school every school year with the produce I can get from my farm, but these produce are not enough to generate more money to support my children and myself. My whole life has been stressful due to the type of hardship that I am going through to bring my family up. I have not been able to pay my children's tuition for a complete. I have not been able to educate my children in a quality school due to the situation faced with in the passed. Therefore; I am very happy righg now as I am a beneficiary of the GiveDirectly cash transfer program. I am stress free, my worries are reduced, happy, I am able to send my children to school for a better tomorrow."

"My current challenge is food insecurity. As a subsistence farmer, I used to do mixed farming whereby I was doing both crop and livestock farming. Through this, food availability and accessibility were 100%. But due to the persistent and prolonged drought in our area, all the cows died due to lack of water and grass. This has now caused my family to reduce from eating three meals a day to sometimes two or one a day. This has affected our health and sometimes the performance of our children in school."

"Receiving this money means a competitive capital for our family business. My husband is broker who buys goods more specifically livestock from farmers and sell them to other people during major open- air market days. The capital he uses is very small such that his profit comes around 3000KES a week. This amount is not enough to cater for our big family of 8. I intend to use this transfer to boost his capital so that in a week we can have an income of at least 4000KES. This will definitely help us take care of our needs."

"The most challenge I face in our village is lack of clean water for domestic use. This is due to the drought that is here since the beginning of the year."

"First of all, let me express my gratitude to GD for the transfer. The money came in when I was chatting with my friends. I danced and thanked God for the opportunity rendered to me."

"My transfer has been a life changing event. I couldn't manage to buy iron sheets but thanks to GD because I have bought 20. My children also look nice in their school uniforms. The teachers could chase them in the past because they didn't have school uniforms."

"My current problem is a stomach problem known as ulcers. This condition was diagnosed in 2018 after a very long stomach pain. Some of the doctors I visited suggested that it's because of this condition that am unable to conceive. This thing has affected my mental, physical and emotional health very much."