"Receiving this money means an investment to my household. I intend to recover a garden of land that my brother gave out as security, for a loan that he borrowed two years ago.Use this land to grow crops for food and sale part for household income. My second lumpsum will be for buying a second hand motorcycle which will help me carry out "boda boda" bussiness within and outside my village"

"Receiving this money will help me build ironroofed house. This will reduce the cost incured in changing grassthatched house materials after every two years, so I will save money for feeding and buying books and pencils for my children in the near by primary school Kotia Mokongoro."

"The biggest hardship i faced in life is my grassthatched roof got burnt and I ended up losing everything in the house including my documents,so am gambling alot in feeding and paying fees for my children in kotia Mokongoro primary school."

"My biggest hardship is lack of money. My late husband's severe illness forced my household to give out part of our garden land as security in exchange for money to cater for his medical bills. This is so stressing that, these day's i hardly have no where to cultivate crops."

"The biggest hardship I face is lack of land for farming which has cause famine in my family .some times I eat once in aday with my children."

"The biggest hardship i am faced with is living as a widow and more so staying alone in a home. As a result, many things like food and other utensils at home have always gone missing because they know very well that i am old and alone at my home and can't help. "

"The biggest hardship I face in my life is lack of money for education .which has forced me to drop out from school with out reaching University. "

"The biggest hardship i have faced in my life is lack of money. My standard of living is very low because i don't have money to start up abusiness that would otherwise generate more money for me to marry a wife, build a house and maintain my family. "

"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.."