"My expectation in the next six months is for my children, especially my daughter who is sitting her national examinations this year, to have minimal disruption in school. I want to ensure to have cleared paying her school fees and allow her an ample to prepare for the exams."

"In the next six months, I hope to have prepared well for the exams and that I will have all the required materials to sit the exams. Passing these exams means I will be able to join a good college and pursue my higher learning."

"I have been buying milk for household use from my neighbors for a very long time. Receiving this money will make me a proud owner of a dairy cow for the first time in my life. Besides nutritional value my children and I will get from the possession, my esteem is also going to be boosted."

"As a window and the sole breadwinner for my family, I have faced the challenge of providing our basic needs say; housing, school fees, better clothing, and even daily meals. I once worked as a maid but due to its low income, I found it wasting much of my time yet meeting the needs was difficult. I decided to return home and opt for charcoal burning as the only hope for me. With my much struggle, I am still challenged due to the laborious nature of this job. Therefore, I consider the lack of a sensible source of income as my biggest hardship."

"I am a happy person today to learn that my family's life will soon change once I receive the cash grant from GiveDirectly. As of now, I live a life of misery because despite my husband having been diagnosed with Tuberculosis since June 2019, we have never managed to have a decent room for his stay. We are forced to sleep in the same room which is at the same time used as a kitchen, something that is very risky to a patient like him. My plan is to use at least $100 to extend one room for him that can provide a comfort zone for his living in order to manage his illness with much easy. On the other hand, I intend to invest in livestock keeping which will be my long term project to help the family in the future. I will use utmost $300 to buy 10 goats and another $300 to buy an oxen to help in upscaling my farming."

"I am a peasant farmer growing maize and cassava for my family consumption using the traditional methods( hoe for weeding). I have wished to expand my farming from 2 to 4 acres of farm by purchasing oxen and Ox plough. Receiving this money means accomplishment of my dream since I am planning to invest USD 380 on this project."

"I struggle a lot with limited finances to educate my children as well as provide food for them. This is because my income which is mostly less than 4 dollars a day from casual work of working in people's farms cannot meet our budget. My daughter has had to drop out of secondary school as a result and we often skip meals especially breakfast and lunch for lack of money."

"My biggest struggle is inadequate finances to meet my needs such as health and food. With old age comes deteriorating health such as poor eyesight, back pains etc thus a lot is spent on treatment. Since I can no longer work, I depend solely on my offspring for my survival which I feel is a burden to them because they too have their own families now."

"My husband left me with eight children that I had to raise single handedly. Since then my job has been burning charcoal and the much I get is 1000 shillings a month. This situation made it difficult to educate them and only one managed to complete primary education. This forced my daughters to get married at a tender age because life was very difficult at home. My sons are working as casual labourers and they are suffering too. I feel like I failed as a parent but there is nothing I could do about it. All this resulted from lack of from support my spouse."

"I expect my life to improve by an additional source of income. In the next six months, I will open a clothes business in a nearby town. this will then help me rake in a little more money that will go into use to meet my family's household needs."