"Hunger is always knocking on my door every year as I do not harvest much"

"The biggest hardship I have faced is providing for my family.Casual jobs barely pay to buy a tin of flour aside from that there are other household expenses like medical and clothing.This has really been a burden for me for along rime.The money I will get comes as a great relief for me."

"I am always starving so I will use the money to buy food; build a better house and buy more fertilizers for my garden"

"I find it very hard to feed my family since I dont have enough money"

"The biggest hardship we have faced in our live is that of paying school fees. There are seasons that we have had low milk yields and this made it difficult for us to gather enough money for school fee payment."

"Receiving this money means a lot to us. We are entirely dependent on farming as a family and the money will help us improve our farming practices. The money will greatly improve our profit margin and thus improve our living standards as a family. I also run a small shop keeping business and I intend to channel some of the money to improve the business."

"Lack of capital to start a business has been the biggest hardship I have faced in life. Getting lump sum money or saving some cash from my small business has become an uphill task. On a normal day, I get an income of approximately Ksh 500 per day. Keeping in mind the hard economic time we are facing, this amount is hardly enough to cater for the family and save some. Give Directly's entry into this village is timely since I will soon buy some materials to start me off."

"The biggest hardship I have faced is failing to join high school due to lack of school fees. I am now hiring unskilled labour which fetch small amount of wages which is not enough for development such as buying a cow or building a house."

"My father got a stroke in early 2018. It came at a time when we did not have any money to pay for his medical bills. The medical insurance we had did not honor their responsibility and we were left at the mercy of my fellow villagers who fundraised for us."

"I faced the biggest hardship in my life when my husband was jobless. He tried his best to make us comfortable but still we couldn't afford to buy food for our family. I would try help him some days by looking for casual jobs in the neighborhood but the pay was too little compared to the amount of work you would be asked to complete."