"The biggest hardship has been a lack of capital. I mostly depend on farming, but our area is prone to drought. The little we get from the farm I use for household needs. I used to depend on chicken for sale but recently died due to diseases."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is lack of enough money to support my family.I don't have a stable source of income. as of now my daughter was selected to secondary school but she could not go because I do not have money to support her education. With the transfers from GiveDirectly am planning to send her back to school."

"Imagine losing a sole breadwinner all of a sudden and being left alone to fend for your family. This has been the case for me ever since I lost my husband in the year 2016. I have six children who are studying. One of them had to pause while in his second year of university education due to lack of school fees. The rest are continuing with their education courtesy of grants from the government and well-wishers. I have remained powerless to educate all of them as I have no regular source of income. I solely depend on casual jobs just to provide for their basic needs. This for me is the biggest hardship I have ever faced in my life."

"Improving the roof of my house with ironsheet is what receiving this money means to me, for a long time I have been unable to purchase ironsheet due to poverty and it consumes much of my time before and after rains because I have to go in the bushes and cut dry grass to thatch my house with."

"Having food to eat three times a day as it is supposed to be i always find it difficult even though i dont stay with my children now they have gone some where to look for greener pastures but i still struggle"

"I always struggle with teeth. Sometimes I experience much pain and in the end it affects our ability as a household to work and earn some income for the household. I go to the nearest health centre sometimes even though they have managed to pull out some teeth, I still struggle with them."

"As i have said that i have no food for lunch today this is one of the biggest hardship i face in my life"

"Financial instability is the biggest hardship that I have ever faced in my life. This is because I am doing charcoal work that earns me only KES 6000 per month. Due to this, I have been struggling to provide for my family and sometimes I fail to put food on the table. Something that has ashamed me for long."

"The biggest hardship in my life is the death of my father. He died when i was very young. In my family we are 7 children and it was hard for my mother to take care for us due to lack of money and because of that i failed to finish my education. I left school in standard 5 and get married."

"The biggest hardship i face in my life is celebral malaria. I experience this disease almost every year or twice a year and when i get sick it means i cant go to work and my family meet alot of problems like lack of money since my family depends on me and also when i get sick it takes almost a week for me to be back to normal"