"I have my husband who live in the near by town due to poverty we can't afford to build a house, when I'm qualify to benefit, I will build a house and do business for myself."

"She said she has financial challenges a lot in her life."

"The major challenge here for me is how to raise money to continue my business. Besides taking my customers coal to sell and bring their money back, nothing else here to get money. So because most time the customers demand cash, it can be very difficult for me to have cash to do business and other things that require cash."

"I plan to buy land for my children, build a house, pay workers to work on my farm, start a business and pay my children school fees."

"The biggest hardship facing me now is money business to support my son and finish my house. Since my husband died and left the house unfinished, I have been fighting to finish but no money. The small money I get from the farming work is not enough to pay my son school fees and finish my house. Therefore, any help that Givedirectly will help me with will bring me happiness."

"I have experienced more hardships in my life. As a single handed person, maintaining three children, no father that will help me find food and good medication for them all make life unbearable for me. At my age, no one want to give me money or help me without having an affairs (sex) with me and I'm a newly baby mother, I was pregnant when my husband disowned the pregnancy created the worst hardship in life by doing casual labor just to sustain my children and giving them good medical attention."

"It was around 9 AM when I received a message on my phone. Since I could not readily understand the contents, my helper checked the message for me and to my surprise, I had received my first transfer from GiveDirectly. The moment I got the news I felt happy for receiving this support and that I would finally finish building my house."

"Upon receiving this cash. I will give the money to my wife to do business inorder to improve our lives. Since my father brought home at that time, I was small and died, I have been faced with hardship I have to casual labor just to even get food for me and my wife. We have to do casual labor inorder to survive, just now, as I speak, I'm just from hauling coal sticks for another person just to get money to feed our home. So, receiving this money, I will used it wisely by using some to give it to my wife to do business and the balance I will invest it in improving the house that my father left with me before he died."

"If I received the money, I want to send my children to school, they were going to school, but due to lack of money, they drop from school, I also want to plastered my house because my house is not properly fixed, I will also buy Zinc, because the present Zinc that is over my house is linking. I will also add the money to my small business that I was doing before to make it bigger. I'm a soap making. I fixed the best iron soap and bathing soap in the town."

"I am facing a major challenge with the farm work, I'm a very old woman and doing lot of farm work makes me sick everything. I am also sick, and there hospital in the town to get medication, because of that, I can't see clearly."