"Food production is a challenge. This year, I didn't use fertilizer when cultivating because I had no money to buy fertilizer and this led to low food production."

"The biggest hardship that I face is lack of food. The money that I have received will help me to buy some livestock such as goats. I cannot use all the money to buy food. The gots that I will buy will be an investment because I will be able to sell them once I do not have enough money or food."

"I am a very happy person to receive this money. Firstly, I would like to thank GiveDirectly for enrolling me in their program. I will use this money to buy cooking utensils for my house. I will also use thia money to buu cement so that I can finish the floor of my house. A cement floor is what I was lacking and I am happy that GiveDirectly has given me this opportunity to receive funds that I can use to develop my household."

"Receiving the money means that I will be able to improve my house, even build another for my children (gowelo- small shack) because my house is not enough for me to share with kids"

"The main challenge that is lack of food and lack of money. I depend on piece work to make money but since I have a large family, the money that I make is not enough to buy food for my family."

"If we are successful to receive the cash, we continue our education. Like for me, I am in 11th grade and my spouse is in 9th grade. So we will complete high school and extend further if we have resources to do so. Also if the money GD will give us will be enough, we will also complete our house renovation with some. And use the balance to start our business ( table Market) here in this same town. We want to do business because when doing business, we will be able to save some of the cash for future family use."

"Sourcing money to buy food for myself and my family is the main problem I have been facing throughout my life , that is why I work hard on my small scale business so that I shouldn't fail to feed my children"

"My house can be down anytime, and it's a very big problem that has been there in my life for a long time, I thank this organization for coming in on time to save me and my child"

"I used my second cash transfer to build a new house..In this, half of the cash will be used to pay the builders and to buy them enough food so that they can have energy to work. Secondly, I used some of the cash to purchase kitchen utensils such as plates,basins,pails as well as pots..It costed me about k50,000 to purchase all the required necessities for my kitchen..I'm so happy and very excited that I now have a big basin that I can use for fetching water."

"I think what givedirectly do well is providing the cash transfer in which the power on how to spend it is in us...This helps alot as i was able to make my own decisions based on the challenges that i have been facing in the past..For instance, without the provision of the cash i could have been unable to start this new business. Also, givedirectly gave me a phone and a simcard..On my own I could have never managed to purchase one..With the phone, I'm able to communicate with people around my area as well as my relatives that lives in far places."