"Food insecurity in my household is the biggest hardship that I have ever faced. This is because I a m a housewife and my husband is doing casual labour that earns him very little. Due to this, I have been struggling to put food on the table and sometimes, I seek help from my relatives something that ashames me."

"Inadequate food at our household, we run out of food most of the times, my children usually cry at night because of hunger but there is nothing that I can do because there is nothing that I can do hence we usually don't have money"

"I usually find it hard to buy food consistently for my family"

"The biggest hardship has been securing food and financial security"

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I now own a dairy cow and a goat, I am optimistic that in future I will be able to get a surplus amount of milk from them and with that, I will be able to sustain our livelihood with that. Our lives will never be the same again, am now herding my cow which never crossed my mind before."

"The biggest difference is that my family enjoys drinking milk daily which I know will improve the health of my children, with goat rearing I believe in future I will be able to earn a good amount of money unlike before where I used to depend on the casual job which was challenging for me to meet my family daily basic needs. our lives have changed to a better one."

"Receiving money from Givedirectly to me means that the organisation wants to support us financially so that we should be able to access basic needs such as food, clothes, school fees and also build good house"

"The biggest hardship is i only relay on farming to actually earn a living mostly i lack money for farm inputs like fertiliser and improved seeds."

"Iron sheets, mattress, kitchen utensils and a solar, bags of maize(6)"

"Receiving this money means building a spacious semi-permanent house for my family of 6 members. Currently, we are staying in a small house which looks like a store forcing my 2 children to spend the night in their grandmother's house. This is something that has stressed me because it makes me feel that I am neglecting to fulfill all my basic needs such as shelter. I am planning to spend 60,000 shillings on construction. This will enable us to leave comfortable and makes me a proud parent. Other than that, I will invest the remaining amount to purchase modern beddings because we use the local ones made of reeds and are uncomfortable."