"I dont have stable and reliable source of income, and that is my biggest hardship of my life. I rely on casual labour to sustain my livelihood. Life becomes difficult when i dont find any piece work to do for money. Kids starve for that day or period, i cant help it but to cry sometimes. When i find money, i invest in small scale businesses which do not last long because we always drain the capital to buy foodstuffs. This transfer should it materialize, will help me to start a big business and solve alot of problems aside bulding a new house. Some of things am planning to do include buying new clothes, new beddings."

"Receiving this money means freedom for me and my 2 grandchildren because I dont have a job to het money therefore this will give me a chance to have money and buy food, beddings and build an ironsheet house which i could not build because of lacking money."

"I am greatful to be amongst beneficiaries of this program, it is a lifetime opportunity for me,I have been lacking so many basic necessities that this money will help me to buy, may Give Directly continue with this initiative to others who are in need of this money"

"My biggest hardship is getting daily meals for my family because the charcoal buyers are unreliable and some times it's hard to get them and sometimes this makes my family going to bed hungry."

"The biggest hardship I am facing in life is food insecurity. We are living in areas where the rain comes once in a year or more than 3 years and we depend on subsistence farming. We currently depend on charcoal burning business as a substitute in order to get food for the family. The revenue we earn from this business is very low of which it cannot accommodate all the needs of my house. we have to skip some meals in order to survive with my 7 children.I drink porridge in the morning and enjoy a good meal in the evening with my children."

"I am an orphan and after my parents died I dropped out of school and started doing piece works in order to find food for me and my grandmother , I still do piece works and I managed to start a small fishing business which does not provide enough money for my family. I plan to buy food when I receive this money and also buy comfortable beddings."

"Receiving this money means a healthy living standard. Even though we are a young family of 3, hoping to better our healthy living standards through taking the required nutrients, we could not acquire them. We have been unable to buy a dairy cow because we solely depend on casual labor within the village which is hard to come by. We feel by taking milk, we will lead to healthy living standards because it has various nutrients. Through an estimated cost of KES 35,000, we intent to buy a dairy cow and consume milk domestically. If we get surplus milk, we can sell it. I am hopeful that soon our problems will be drowned through this noble initiative."

"My priority for the Give Directly transfer is to build a bigger and iron roofed house for my family. The house is estimated to cost around KSH 40,000. I'm a second wife to my husband with 3 children, two boys and one girl. In our custom when one is married as the second wife they need to have their own house, but because my co-wife died and left around grown up boys, it meant they would inherit their mothers house. My husband had to build a small hut for me to start living in. The hut is grass roofed which is slowly falling off and when it rains it pours inside. On rainy days we have to stand in the middle of the hut where it's not pouring just to shelter ourselves from the rain. Because it's small my 2 sons are forced to sleep at our neighbours house since it's a taboo for sons and mothers to sleep in one room. I'm left to sleep with my daughter and husband when he comes home for weekends. I would love to build a bigger house that can unify my family by accommodating the 5 of us under one roof."

"Receiving this means that I'll be able to do development on my household, I will also be able to buy food and build a better house I didn't have money for this all along I hope that the transfer will enable me to accomplish these"

"Lack of stable income is my biggest hardship. We primarily depend on my husband's casual jobs which earn him an average amount of KES 200 a day. This hardly satisfies our daily basic needs leaving us to forgo children's needs mainly education. I currently have a child in secondary school and raising his fee has been challenging with our little resources."