"What is giving me sleepless nights are my two eldest kids. Now that they have left school, I would want nothing more than to take them to college and have them get papers that can help them better themselves. I will continue to work toward that until I can. In the long run, my dream is to open a mini-mart. A straight-forward, in-and-out business where I can, hopefully, make enough money to change the financial situation we are in, positively, forever!"

"I bought a 100-seater tent for events by combining my second transfer with my first transfer that I had saved in my Imarisha Sacco account. I intend to recoup the cost of the tent, which was around ksh 100,000, in six months."

"Being the sole parent can be extremely stressful. I've had to fend for myself without a partner. GiveDirectly was chosen as that partner. They have walked alongside me like no one else has before. I hope they continue to bless others as they have blessed myself and our community."

"The challenge I face is Lack of money in that I am unable to feed my family. And the change in weather from a rainy season to a hot season, crops are not able to grow thus lack of food."

"The challenge i am facing right now is lack of start up capital for a business. I have always desired to have a business from which I know I will be able to get money to sustain my family with food, school and other needs."

"The main challenge is not having enough capital to sustain a new business because we lack enough money for operation. My husband Charles started being an Airtel telecommunications agent 8 months ago but he is not having enough capacity to keep it running because when for example a person want to withdraw like $50 and he doesn't have that amount and it takes him days to raise that amount it makes him lose some clients and he can't be able to retain existing ones because they are not getting the service they need. And another challenge is that we currently don't own any livestock to give us fertilisers and this affects our productivity because we can't be able to harvest enough as we want."

"The greatest challenge I have is not having livestock to give me fertiliser to use in my land, I currently own a small land in order to survive i have to rent from others to and to be able to get money to rent that land I have to work for others too. Being able to get school fees to pay for my children is very hard for me because it requires me to work more and be able to raise enough for the 3 of them. Currently one of my children doesn't have school uniform because i am not capable of paying for it and this is a challenge for me and my children."

"Not having enough land of our own is our greatest challenge because the little money get from the small business we have we use it renting land to cultivate. Another challenge we are currently facing now is that the weather is bad for our crops , we have have been in a sunny season for about 3 months and this is affecting our harvest in this period. Another challenge we are currently facing is that we don't have easy access to enough fertiliser either Organic or inorganic, we currently don't have any livestock we have to buy fertiliser from others and because of our little economy we can't get enough money to buy both Organic and inorganic , we have to choose or balance them which is not enough for our land."

"The main challenge we are currently facing is not having enough land , we have to rent from others in order to be able to produce what to eat , to get fertiliser to use we have to herd livestock from others, the only livestock we have is 3 chickens. My husband Emmanuel wishes to start a small business but because we don't have any capital to start running that business we continue to live in poverty. Our house is very small for our family size and my children don't have primarily equipment that they need like matress and clothes."

"I'm getting old and I don't have much energy, living like this without even having enough land to cultivate is my greatest challenge. I only have a small land of my own which can not produce enough food to eat , I have to rent in order to be able to survive and currently I am not able to get any fertiliser because i don't have any livestock. I am always weak and no body can hire me to work for them i have to survive with the little i get."