"The biggest hardship I have faced is lack of money. I attimes fail to take my children for medical attention because I cannot afford the services."

"Lack of a stable source of income is my biggest hardship. I depend on casual labour in order to find a livelihood when agricultural produce is not able to sustain. I spend a lot of time in people's gardens which does not give me time to dig on my own land hence food shortage at the household. "

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is illness. I am living HIV positive and this has weakened me physically to participate wholesomely in agriculture prompting me to sometimes hire labour."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is illness that has hindered me in doing most of the productive work at home like gardenning and cooking."

"Lack of a reliable source of income in order to meet family needs is my biggest challenge. The main source of income to my household is farming which at times is not reliable due to drought or floods leaving the household with no alternative source. "

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life is lack of money to cater for the household's basic needs like proper feeding and medical care. Attimes I'm forced to labour in other people's gardens so that I get money to buy food."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will be a proud owner of a dairy cow. With this, I will be assured of a source of income after GiveDirectly will have stopped sending us the financial aid after the years they had promised us. I will have also harvested and stored my beans as I will be waiting till next year so that I can sell them when the demand is high."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have connected a solar in my house. This will enhance our security as my compound will be well lit at night. My family will also be feeding well as I will be using part of my transfers to employ some workers to help me with the farm work."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have started buying building materials. I believe that I will have bought sand soil, gravel and bricks. I will be using my monthly transfers to achieve this. I have already started saving my monthly income and I believe by the time six months elapse I will have accumulated a good amount of money. I am very committed to building this house because I have suffered for a long time living in my current house. I thank Give Directly for coming through and giving me hope of living a good life"

"I finally managed to build a house through the money I got from Give Directly. This wouldn't possible to build any time soon since I couldn't afford to raise money for constructing a house. Apart from that, I am happy that I was able to pay school fees for my child who is secondary school. My child had been sent home for school fees because I did not have a reliable source of income to enable me to pay his school fees. He had stayed home for two weeks and I was afraid he would perform poorly because he had missed several lessons. I thank God I finally managed to clear his fee balance and he can now study without being interrupted."