"I am very happy and blessed to be selected to be part of this program. Receiving this money means my family and I can start to live comfortably. I have 10 children and fending for all of them has not been easy. This will help me buy beds for my children because all of them sleep on the floor and send them to school we will also have a lot left over to buy food on a daily."

"The biggest hardship in my life is not having enough food to fend for the family sometimes we go days without having proper meals. Farming is also a big challenge because accessing fertizer in these rural areas isn't always easy we have to travel long distances to purchase fertilizer which we can't afford"

"Sickness for 3months the doctors could not tell me what was wrong i tryed traddition medicine and it worked but when i recovered i coudnt go back in the ways i was duin to source enough funds for my family"

"My ex-Wife stole my savings I was making from my grocery business and ended up bankrupt."

"I'm planning to use 400 dollars from this donation to construct a descent and a spacious house for my family. It has been my desire to accommodate my family in a descent house. My dream will come true courtesy of GiveDirectly. I'll further use 300 dollars to buy ten goats. I prefer buying goats because they are easily manageable unlike other domestic animals like cows."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is lack of a decent and spacious house for my family. The house I own is in bad condition with a leaking roof and unable to sustain my entire family."

"I now look forward to build a good house for me and my children. We always have problems in cold and rainy seasons every year as our house has low ventilation and its poorly thatched. I also intend to buy goats to be rearing to sustain myself in future."

"It is difficult for us to find money to buy food, during harvesting season i do i work as a casual labourer, but when that season goes it is hard for me to find money to buy food since i do not have a reliable source of income."

"I depend on casual labour in order to find money to buy food so when there are no works especially during this rainy season me and my family stay without eating anything. Many times the household head walks very long distances for example all the way to Mangochi Boma in order to find money to feed this family."

"The biggest hardship we face is shortage of food. We have a large land but can not afford to buy fertilizer to produce alot of produce. The land also some times floods with water when heavy rains come leading to us having less food in our home"