"The biggest hardship I have faced in my is bringing up my children as a single father. It has not been easy because I don't have enough money to cater for their basic needs like education, medical care, good meals and clothing."

"Receiving this money will enable me pay school fees for my children. I have one child in Secondary level and another in upper primary but it has not been easy for me to facilitate their education promptly. I will also start a livestock raising business to enable boost household income so that I don't get stranded in future to pay the school dues for my children."

"The biggest hardship I have faced is illness. I was diagnosed with HIV and this occassionally puts me down limitting my input in agriculture which is our main source of income."

"Buying oxen and an ox-plough is the first thing I will do when I receive these transfers. This will make it easier for me to clear gardens and plant crops in time to match the ever changing seasons. I believe it will also improve on the quality and quantity of my yields therefore making my home better."

"In the next six months, I am hopeful that I will be having the fifth cow on our farm. With the plans that I have to increase milk production, I see myself rearing as much as five cows based on the size of the field. I am trying as much as possible to see that I produce enough milk to pay school fees for my kids who are now in primary school. I thank God for this far that He has brought us since we really started at a very low note."

"Right now I am able to get proper medication because I have enough money to pay for the medication unlike before when I had no capacity to seek medical attention due to lack of cash."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I once had no livestock but now through the help from GiveDirectly, I managed to purchase the eleven goats to keep as assets in my compound. I am assured that through the goats, I will be able to educate my children for it will be a source of finance because I will sell as they reproduce and increase in number and educate my children."

"Putting food on the table had been a challenge to me because I have no one to depend on nor any work which I get paid at the end of the day for doing it. Since GiveDirectly came to my household, food has been continuously available for my family as I used part of the transfer to purchase it. To me, providing a good diet for my family is the biggest difference in my daily life and I thank GiveDirectly for making this happen."

"My life is different than it would have been if I never received the transfer in that I have restored my main source of income which was farming that had collapsed due to lack of capital to sustain it. Now, I am earning some income on a daily basis that helps me cater to my family's needs. Prior to receiving this money, I lived a hopeless life because I had no means I could generate daily income to cater for my family's basic needs."

"My life has changed because I have managed to build my own home away from my in-laws who had become a problem for me. They used to make decisions for my spouse which made my spouse become abusive and my stay with my children was not peaceful but rather full of pain. In my new home currently, I make my own decisions hence my children and I have a piece of my mind thanks to GiveDirectly for making this possible."