"Let me tell you, the moment I saw the Mpesa message and confirmed that it was transaction from Give Directly, I felt over excited. This is because, it was my first time receiving such big amount of money at once."

"I felt very peaceful at heart for such a wonderful gift, may God bless GiveDirectly.."

"It was in the evening and I never expected money from anyone so when I saw a message, checked it and confirmed that it was a genuine Mpesa transaction from Give Directly, I felt very surprised but at the same time excited since I would meet some of my development objectives I had been postponing due to lack of money including construction of a better house."

"Receiving this money will help me to buy clothes ,bedings and household utensils for the family.and the balance will be used for buying land for cultivation. "

"Recieving this money will help me to buy cow which will provide milk.since am sick and the doctor has adviced me to take milk ."

"The hardship I face is lack of land for farming which has caused famine to my household every year .since some rain season I may lack money for hiring land for farming."

"The biggest hardship am facing is lack of money to establish a retail shop bussiness. It's been my dream to start up bussiness as an additional source of income for my household but money to buy goods, rent a house has always been a limiting factor."

"The biggest hardship that i am facing is living without a woman. Sometimes i come back from the garden very tired and hungry with no one to help yet if i had a wife, she would be helping atleast to even just prepaire food that i can eat after doing garden work. "

"The biggest hardship i am faced with is lack of money. I am not able to take my children to better schools and yet i would really love that they also study up to higher levels of institutional learning. I am worried that i may not be able to meet the cost of education. "

"Receiving this money means completing my iron roof house.This money will help buy iron sheets, nails and bricks to complete my house which has stayed incomplete for the last five years.Staying in an iron roof house of my own has always been my childhood desire."