"Financial constraints have been my hardest challenge. As a Single mother and having 3 children to look after and depending only on casual jobs to put something on the table as well as paying fees for my children as been an uphill task for me. The little I get from casual jobs goes to foodstuffs only and nothing to develop, my brothers also are not happy while am at home hence feeling stressed most of the time.  "

"I have bought a plot of land, I save both my transfers and added a little more to purchase a big plot on land which I intend to build a house and start some small sclae farming"

"I used my second transfer to build a house. I had only bought materials with the first transfer so the second transfwr i mainly used to pay the builder to build the house. I also bought school uniform for my children and also 6 bags of maize for food all these with tje second transfer"

"I have managed to build a house with the money I received from give directly. I started foundation to this building in 2010 but I was unable to finish due to luck of funds. With the second transfer I bought 10 bags of maize. I also bought doors to the house I am building with their frames, I also bought cement to plaster the floor with concrete, and glass windows for finishing"

"Improving the roof of my house with ironsheet is what receiving this money means to me, each and every year after rains and before rains i have to go in the bushes to cut grass to thatch my house, this takes much of my productive time as i could do something else better to bring money on my house and buy basic needs."

"Receiving this money has meant solving some of my problems and I plan to buy enough food and buy comfortable beddings."

"Receiving this money will help me in alot of way firstly I plan on building a nice house cause the house we staying in is so small and has cracks and termites, so I take this as a blessing cause I will finally build the house I have always wanted"

"Lack of income has been a very big challenge for me cause am unable to provide the things I and my family lack"

"The moment I received the transfer I felt so happy. I remember it was around 9:45am. When I heard a ringtone message from my phone. I was in school teaching. I am a ECD teacher. When I checked out the message. I felt so happy. It was a message confirming that I have received money from GiveDirectly. I have never received such amount of money before. I immediately inform my spouse and he was also so happy. We knew we would be able to buy building materials to build a kitchen which was my dream."

"The moment I received the transfer I felt so happy. I remember it was around 9am. When I heard a ringtone message from my phone. I was dong my daily cause jobs. I decided to check it out. I could not believe my eyes, it was a message confirming that I have received money from GiveDirectly. I felt so happy and stopped whatever I was doing and rushed home. I inform my family members and they celebrated with lots of joy. I knew I would be able to buy a dairy cow. I went and withdrew the money the same day."