"My biggest hardship is that I am in able to educate my children since the death of my my husband"

"I have a plan to start buying some goats which I want to rear and sell later to create more and and vast source of income for my family. I am also planning to venture more into farming to get more produce which I can consume and sell the surplus."

"Receiving this money means that I have been shown a lot of love by givedirectly and I will be able to repair my house and buy food, part of the transfer I will donate to pay fees to my grandchild who has been helping over school holidays."

"Receiving this money means freedom from poor shelter. I would like to spend the transfer on construction of a new house that is spacious enough to accommodate my family. My current house is leaky and small in size."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life was losing my husband. I found it difficult to continue with sugar cane farming since I could not pay labor and buy farm inputs the way my late husband used to do. This has left me without any source of income, I also do not have a shoulder to lean on at times of difficulty. "

"Receiving this money means improvement in my living standards. I plan to buy livestock, pay dowry and buy oxen plough for doing farming. "

"The biggest hardship I face is difficulty in providing food to my children. My husband and I have unreliable sources of income hence unable at times to provide meals for my children."

"The biggest hardship that I am facing is that I do not have a stable source of income to rely on. For a very long time, my business of selling samosas has not been doing very well.As a result, sustaining most of my family's needs like feeding, providing a decent shelter, providing decent clothing and ensuring that all my children go to school regularly has become a struggle for me. "

"I was so excited when I received the funds. I left the laundry I was doing at that time and ran to the house to recover from the shock and confirm the receipt was indeed true. My children were so excited because they knew it meant new clothes for them. They had seen their friends in neighboring villages who had new clothes from GiveDirectly funds and they knew it was their turn too."

"My life is currently different from the way it would have been had I not received the money from GiveDirectly in that if it wasn't for GD I wouldn't be having iron sheets. Had it not for GD I wouldn't be having decent clothing too."