"I always get suffer from Malaria frequently which I think may be something I got from my mom as she also goes through that."

"We have 3 children in secondary school and the burden of paying school fees is heavy on us. I do small scale farming here a home and the little produce we get goes to homehold consumption and sell to pay our children school fees which is never enough most of the time.so we are going to relieve ourself from this burden of paying school fees."

"It is the desire of every parent to see their children prosper in the lives. I have two children who are doing electrical engineering, sometimes they forced to return home and spend like a month due to lack of school fees. I have never wished my children to suffer in their education life but due to our poor life condition it forces them to suffer a lot. Receiving this money means I will be able to clear their school fees debt whereby I will use 80,000 Kenya shillings to clear their arreas so that they can continue with their training.The remaining amount will be used for our daily needs such as food and clothing."

"We do not have a cows, all that we had was taken by our children, when we get this money we are going to buy other two heives so that we can have milk them and sell the milk to other people here and some for our own use.we are too old to look for casual work so when we have the cows we will sell milk and use the money meet our household needs."

"I have desired to sleep in a good bed with a high-density mattress but due to my humble background, my desire has never materialized. When I receive the money I will use 30,000 Kenya shillings to buy a bed and mattress to fulfill my wish. I will also use 30,000 Kenya shilling to increase my one-roomed house into a two-roomed house so that it can be spacious enough to accommodate visitors. The remaining amount will be used for basic needs such as food and clothing."

"My life has just been full of financial struggles as I depend on charcoal burning as the only source of income. The little money from this is enough to cater for my household needs only. This forced me to live in a grass thatched hut for years.I never thought of upgrading to an iron roofed house until GiveDirectly visited and promised to change my life. Through their financial help, I purchased enough building materials to build a decent house. I will soon be living in an iron roofed house, which makes it to be the biggest difference in my daily life."

"Being dependent on farming for commercial purposes is the biggest hardship we face. Due to continuous prolonged drought in this region, the 8-acre piece of land that we cultivate only yields 5 bags of maize seasonally. The output is only enough for my household consumption hence none is left for sale. I am thus forced to engage in tedious casual jobs on peoples' farms to support other family needs. The fact that such jobs are never readily accessible gives rise to depression each day."

"We get water from very far and I therefore decided to buy a water tank to harvest rain water. This way I will not have to walk a long distance to fetch water and I can therefore use that time to do other productive work."

"I mostly do not have food. And this house is too small for me i have problems to put all my belongings"

"The biggest challenge I have faced in my life is poor health. I do not enjoy good health."