"The biggest hardship i always face is shelter,my glass fatched house really gives me hard time during rain season and i would love to build a new house with ironsheet, secondly its hunger,i relay on making clay balls that are used by fishermen at the lake and i get far from enough to actually feed all my 5 children,i would love to start a reliable business though I'm not sure yet to which business i will start,but please receive my gratitude for I'm super excited for this programme."

"The biggest hardship i always face is sourcing money for food(hunger) it is really challenging to go out there and search for piece jobs just to feed the children mind you I'm a single mother of 4and what kills me most each and every day is being an able to buy healthy food,my children have been suffering from malnutrition all because i don't provide enough healthy food for them,as a mother i feel like I'm not doing so much but also what can a poor woman like me do in order to earn a little bit more?it has been had for me and reaching this far is really GOD's kindness."

"When i recieved the money, i was very happy and excited that i could not believe it. Up today I still find it hard to believe because this is something i never expected."

"I now have food and i am now eating three times a day. This was something that was impossible because i did not harvest enough maize to afford such meals."

"When i recieved the money, i knew that now it was my chance to own things i couldnot on my own. My husband has a small bussiness of selling assorted kitchen items in markets. The profits are just enough to feed and cloth us as a family. When the money came i bought blankets , 1 for myself the other for my children. I also bought a mattress so that we have a good sleeping place as we sleep on a mat. The remaining money i am planning on buying bricks to build a house the future."

"Receiving this money means peace and a better sleep, I can finally afford to buy a Mattress, iron sheets and maize to make sure my household is food secure for some time"

"Falling sick now and then is the biggest hardship i have faced in my life because when iam sick i do not do casual labour that brings money to buy food for my family."

"At my age receiving such an amount of is very unbelievable. My husband and i are old people and we had never imagined of receiving such an amount of money. We are very grateful to Givedirectly. We are dying to own a sofa in our house. We feel embarrassed when we receive visitors and they have to sit on the floor."

"After I received my cash transfer from Give Directly I managed to buy 6 bags of cement at K7500 each, 1 goat at 24,000kwacha , 1 mattress at K42,000 and 1 blanket at K21,000. This was so as the house I used to live in was not in a good condition and with the cement I bought have managed to improve it's condition and am very thankful for being in this programme."

"I was very thankful. I felt blessed to be included in this program. So many programs come and go without being included. This one is different, and i am thankful."