"Losing my wife is the biggest hardship i have ever faced,i lost my wife in 2019 and i had to move from my wifes village to my village as it is i live with my sister and i feel like i don't do much since i don't have a business or a job and I'm sure this money will help me alot."

"The biggest hardship is of shelter,as you can see i live in a glass fatched house i actually dream of having a house with iron sheet one day and i can't wait for that dream to become true,I'm a farmer and mostly i suffer when it comes to income of farm inputs especially fertiliser, some types i actually harvest handful products just because i didn't apply adequate fertiliser hence hunger."

"I am happy to be enrolled in this program. Receiving this money means a lot for me because I will use this money to fix my house. I will also use the money to buy food and matress."

"I struggle to find money to buy food and fertilizer in my household."

"Receiving this money will help me to purchase iron sheets and build a way much decent house as the one I currently live in is old, dilapidated and in bad shape. I will also use the money for purchasing enough fertilizers for my garden for the next growing season"

"This money will help me to purchase some iron sheets for my household as it is grass thatched and is made of mud. I will also use the money to build a way much better house"

"Receiving this money is good news to me. As an old person I do not work and I do not earn money. I depend on the government social cash transfers. Receiving this money from GiveDirectly will help me to buy a matress and good beddings for myself."

"I believe this money will help me to build a decent house and put an iron sheet roofed house as I do not a proper house. I will also use the money for buying enough food for my household as my household always lacks money for food since I do not work and I do not do any business"

"Receiving this money means healthy life for my kid's and plenty nutrients from the milk. I always buy milk since I don't have a cow and it's very expensive hence I can't get enough for my kid's. I will set aside ksh 60,000 to buy two Dairy cows that will give me a total of 15 liter's a day and my kids will have enough milk to drink the remaining amount I will use it to build a house"

"A prolonged period of drought has been the biggest hardship we have faced in life. Over the past 10 years, we have been unable to harvest enough maize in our one-acre piece of land due to drought yet we relied on it. Initially, we used to harvest an average of 8 bags per acre. Unlike today we harvest an average of 2 bags per acre which is not enough to cater to a family of 9. Life has become unbearable since we nowadays buy maize for domestic use and thus raising our household expenditure."