"GiveDirectly has inspired me. They have finally given me the opportunity to provide the assistance that my husband requires. He's been footing the majority of the bills for so long, and it felt good to be able to tell him I'll help and be able to do so. GiveDirectly gave me hope and the belief that things can change for the better overnight."

"My dream is to live a healthy life. With good health, I will have the ability to work and ensure my kids get the future they deserve. Since my husband was laid off in 2020, I have been left fending for the family and paying fees for tuition and other expenses at home. It has not been easy, but thanks to my good health, I made it until GiveDirectly came to our aid."

"My husband has long worked as a mason, despite us not having built our own home. The funds from GiveDirectly were then quickly funneled towards construction of a three bedroom house ,complete with verandah. It is more than sufficient for a still-growing family such as ours. It currently consists of our 3 year, 6 month old son, myself and my husband. While my husband earns $25 per day from his toils, it isn't nearly enough to sustain us, seeing as I don't work myself. As a result, I purchased a male and female cow for breeding as well as five local breed chickens, to supplement what I grow for domestic use on our five acres of land. My main crops are Maize, cassava, and local cereals are primarily what I grow. Without GiveDirectly stepping in, we would have been living one day at a time."

"My future plan is to continue educating my children until they finish school. Build me and my sons a permanent house since the current one is old and too small for us. Lastly, continue working hard on my farm to get a good harvest and sell it to support my family."

"Not having a fertile land is my greatest challenge, i am not getting enough harvest because i don't get fertiliser to use. I don't have livestock , i have to herd from others to be able to get fertiliser to use in my land and i am not capable to afford inorganic fertiliser. My house is very small and it rains inside, when it rains I am not capable of cooking at that time because my kitchen is inside my room and when the floor is wet i can't be able to fire woods."

"Not having enough land to cultivate is our main challenge we have to work for others to be able to get money to rent a land to produce what to eat and pay for school fees for our children. And my daughter Agnes had to drop out of school because we can only afford school fees for one. Getting fertiliser is not easy , we have to herd livestock for others to be able to get fertiliser to use and we are not able to get money to buy inorganic fertiliser."

"Getting what to eat to is not easy , my children are in school and to be able to pay for their school fees i have to work for others and raise money to support them and pay for our medical insurance. I have a small land which is not fertile , and i currently don't have any livestock to give me fertiliser i have to go and ask from my neighbours for it. The house we rent is very small and sometimes i face difficulty getting money to pay for it."

"Not being able to get capital is the main challenge we are currently facing because when we approach banks and cooperatives they give us a few days for repayment, my husband vianney asked for a loan of $100 and when he got apporoval to get it they immediately deducted their interest and he received $81 which had to be paid in a period of one year installments for every 3 months. When we received that amount we started a business of raising livestocks , we bought 3 goats which we had to sell every 3 months to be able to pay out the loan and in actual reality we faced loses and penalties , we didn't operate as we expected because much pressure was on getting money to pay back without even gaining any profit and later on some programs that helps small businesses and pay back after getting profits come in our village but they required mortgage which we don't possess and therefore having a capital to start a business is our main challenge. Infrastructure in our village is another challenge because we don't have access to roads, electricity and water which doesn't allow us to work properly or even get enough income from our activities. Getting fertiliser to use is still a challenge, to use either Organic and inorganic is very expensive. to get inorganic requires money and we don't have livestock to get the organic fertiliser."

"The main challenge we are facing is that our house is damaged it has wholes in the walls since last year and we are afraid that anytime it can fall down. The other challenge is that we have insufficient land for growing crops and because of that we don't produce enough from it ,hence insufficient food for my family. Lastly, 6 months ago we have sold our cow and we did so because we needed money to buy a piece of land and when we see the the cow bridge in which it used to stay we feel like we wish to put another one for replacement."

"The main challenge we are facing is poverty because we always get something to eat by buying as well as the soap and other needs. We are always required to pay for everything we need yet we don't have money. Besides, we don't have any livestocks being small or cows, we don't have manure to put in our small land we use to grow food crops. Therefore we don't produce enough from agriculture. In general we are very poor as u can see, even to get the money to pay for health insurance we have to cultivate for others."