"The biggest hardship that I face is having inadequate food in my house. Since fertilizer is expensive, sometimes I have to grow maize without fertilizer and the harvest is very little. This makes it very difficult for my family to have adequate food."

"I am just grateful to be enrolled in the project. This money will change my life for the better. I plan to demolish the house I am living in. My house is made of bricks that are not baked. It is also thatched with grass. On top of that it is too small for us. As such I will invest the money in building a new house. I will also buy beddings and utensils because that's what I am lacking currently."

"This money means that I will be able to build a new durable house. I want a house made of baked bricks. I will also buy beddings which I don't have. I sleep on a mat and the beddings are torn. On top of that, I won't forget to buy food for my family."

"The biggest hardship I face is not having enough money to meet my basic needs. My two children dropped out of school because I couldn't afford to pay their secondary school fees. One child dropped when she was in form four whilst the other one dropped when she was in form One."

"Iron sheets, fertilizer, bags of maize and clothes"

"I am so happy to receive these funds from GD. This money will help me to buy food and fertilizer in my household. This money has given me a head start in my family doings"

"In my life I have been struggling with how to feed my children. The produce from our farm is mostly never enough to feed all of us through out the year. This leads to hunger in my home"

"The moment I saw the message that she received from Givedirectly I could not believe what my eyes saw, that is so because i have never ever received such a huge amount of money before in my life."

"The biggest hardship i have faced in my life is lack of food for my family. I do not harvest much because i have a very small garden and i can't afford to buy fertilizer. Sometimes i eat once in a day because i do not have much food to eat three times a day."

"After we received our cash transfers we managed to spend it on buying cement, mattress, maize and a wooden door and this costed us about 295,000 kwacha. This is so as the house we used to live in was not in a good condition, we used to close it using a mat and it was not safe for us, every time we wake up in the morning we were just thanking God that he protected us throughout the night but now we are so grateful that Give Directly gave us the money and we have managed to enhance our own security and livelihoods. May God bless the organisation."