"The biggest hardship that I face is lack of money. I sell produce from my garden in order to earn money. Sometimes the crops do not produce very and that is what makes it difficult for me to have enough money."

"The biggest hardship I face is making constant losses in my business. I sell groceries but I use some of the money to take care of my family. I end up using even the profits that I make since it's a small business and I do not have any other source of income."

"Over the last few years I have suffering with Hunger, and I have also lacked clothes to properly dress my children"

"Food access is a challenge. I don't have enough food which I can eat for the lest of the year."

"I am so excited to be part of this program. I have been desiring to build a house but I have never had a chance to do so because of lack of money. This is an opportunity for me to build one and buy food."

"I am so grateful for being enrolled in this program. This program means a lot to me and my life will change for the better. I have been looking forward to finish my house but I have failed because of finances. I will buy some bags of cement when I receive my transfer so that I can improve the floor of my house. I am also planning to buy furniture and bags of maize so that I can add on the food that I already have."

"We depend on doing a small business we buy and resell fish in town and we get it from here but over the recent two years I have had a financial crisis and I used up all my capital and have also struggled to find food"

"Receiving this money will mean alot to us as we have just married we don't have our own house, we borrowed this house so with this money we will be able to build our own house which we did not thought of, at this younger age of ours to afford having a house of our own is an achievement ."

"This was a normal day for me, I had gone out to look for a casual job to do when I heard a message alert ringing, it was around 9 am, I stopped what I was doing to check on what the message was all about, I was overwhelmed with happiness when I saw that I had received a sum of KES 55,000, I immediately stopped what I was doing and headed straight home, I am grateful that I received money from GiveDirectly."

"When I received my transfer I had already planned on how to spend the money, School fees was my major priority because I heard 2 school-going children, 1 in secondary school and the other one in college, I there used KES15,000 in clearing the arrears, my house is also small, therefore, I decided to build a better and a spacious house where I spent KES 35000, I am relieved and happy that the support made me accomplish so much."