"The biggest hardship that I've faced is lack of food , it has been hard for me to provide for them since I am a single woman , sometimes I struggle to raise school fees for them too"

"I used my second transfer to buy timber, door frames and window frames which i want use in building my house. I also bought bags of maize to use for food."

"Lack of employment is the challenge I am currently facing. I have 5 children who still depend on me. Providing and meeting all the needs of these children without any kind of employment is very challenging. This because there no any known source of income. I only depend on the farm produce mainly cassava. Earning from the farm produce is also determined by the availability of customers. The customers are not constant. Some days, I sell nothing. Which forces me to look for other alternative sources of income. I sometimes work as a casual Labor. I cultivate farms of my neighbors at a fee. It is the money that I get from this kind of jobs that helps is buying food when things are tough."

"So much has changed, I now have rented a farming land. I am confident that my yield will increase because I have a piece of land and I have also bought fertilizer. I also managed to buy clothes and now I look nice. I am also able to live an independent using the money I earn from my small business."

"Receiving this money means self employment for me. I worked as a vegetable vendor in Mombasa from 2004 to 2018. I used to buy vegetables in our village and resell them in Mombasa at a reasonable profit. The income I was getting sustained my family of 5 children for all those years. In 2017, I started operating at a loss. There were no enough vegetables being produced in the village. I was not meeting the demand of my customers. The income started running low. I finally decided to quit the job in 2018. I went back to the village from Mombasa. Life started becoming tough. I could no longer fully meet the needs of my family because I had no constant income. We were only depending of farming. I could sell cassava to my neighbors and use the money to pay fees for my children. Early this year (2021), I decided to venture into local improved chicken production after seeing my neighbor succeed in this particular business. For sure this project can take me out of poverty. The only challenge I am facing about this project is lack of funds to buy the feeds. I am planning to use the funds I will be receiving to first construct a semi intensive Poultry house. I will then be buying the feeds for the poultry. After a period of 5 months, the birds will be ready for the market. The birds will be selling at a price of 1,000 KES per bird. The income I will earn from this project will play a very big role in changing my life. From this income, I will pay school fees for my children, sort all the needs of my family and expand the project. I will no longer be dependant on any employment."

"I have seen the goodness of GD only. GD is an independent organisation and I have seen that the enrollment process is not influenced by chiefs and any other people in authority. This on the other hand, is very good because the program reaches to real deserving recipients. Issues of corruption and nepotism are delt with."

"I feel like the provision of unconditional cash is a good thing that Givedirectly does it helps in making a house independent and being able to make one's own choices..For instance with the money I was able to buy food which has been a major burden. The other thing that Givedirectly does well is that it provides the cash to each and every household whether they have cash or not as long as they are part of the village. Lastly, givedirectly provides phones and simcards to every household in the village..This helps one to be able to communicate with relatives who lives in distant villages."

"The biggest hardship that I face is lack of food due to lack of money. Since I am a fisherman it is difficult for me to make money in the rainy season because this is the time that fishing is not allowed. So during that time I suffer because I can hardly make money."

"I am so grateful for being considered in this program. I have been desiring to start livestock production and the transfer gave me a chance to start livestock production. I bought two goats. I also bought beddings for my family such as blackects. I have been struggling with hunger in the past. I bought 10 bags of maize and now I am food secured. I also built a brick fence at the back of my house. I saved part of the money so that I can be buying my day to day needs."

"I have a house that was built in 2016 but has no doors, windows or floor. I have been living in my house like this all these years. I have manged to buy doors, windows as well as cement to have the floor of the house like done. I would not have managed to complete the house on my own because i could not afford to do so."