"In my family of five, I have a disabled child who is currently in first grade at a nearby elementary school. I am grateful to GiveDirectly for making it possible for me to pay his school fees with ease. Previously, I was reliant on charcoal production and sale, but since purchasing goats, I have been unable to move around in search of wood for charcoal production. Despite the fact that I am faced with the challenge of paying school fees for my son as well as food for my family of five, I hope to begin saving half of the transfer to use in purchasing more goats in the coming year. I hope to sale their offspring to pay for school in the future."

"After successfully constructing my new house through previous transfers, I now plan to focus on acquiring livestock such as goats and cows. To start with, I aim to have bought at least six goats by year-end. I intend to use the cash transfers to buy these goes. This is because my business of selling palm wine cannot raise money to afford anything beyond food."

"I plan to have started livestock farming specifically goats by the end of this year. I am balancing paying school fees for my three primary school children and doing an investment. Since I am required to pay $28 per term and a term has three months. I will be spending one month's transfer for fees and the other transfers for the rest of the months on buying the goats. I chose goat farming over cows because of the climate condition in our area. Goats can survive in harsh conditions while cows cannot cope. Again goats have ready markets because they are cheap to acquire, so I will be able to convert them into monetary value when the need arises."

"As a parent, I hope to always provide for basic needs such as food and education for my family of 4. Unfortunately, age is catching up with me and provision is almost uncertain since I depend seasonally on fetching firewood to earn a living. When I lost my 2 children 24 and 33, I did not have a choice but rather take care of the 3 grandchildren they left behind. The sight of their graves in my garden draws some tears from my eyes which depresses me alot. It pains me that I have to struggle hard to provide food for them now that the farms here are unproductive and I have to solely depend on well wishers."

"The backbone of all our problems is money. We don't have money for food and clothes. There is only one company here in the village where we can get employment opportunities. Because of that, we are supposed to pay a bribe of $30 to get work and yet they pay $2 a day so how does one raise the bribe money. Had I been educated, i would have been employed somewhere and receiving monthly income. My life would have been better off."

"Sometime last month my husband was involved in a motorcycle accident that broke his hand. He is indisposed and still under medication, he hardly uses his hand to do any work.He used to engage in casual jobs and at the time of the accident he was coming from Kapkwen market where he was from doing the casual job. He is incapacitated and this has deprived us of our daily bread since he is our breadwinner.There has been some slight improvement after undergoing treatment at Longisa Referral Hospital but he is still recuperating at home awaiting the next appointment."

"Our biggest challenge is money. We don't have money for food and other basic needs. We fail to make money because here's too much sun here that we fail to yield anything from agriculture because of the same. We are left with casual work which is not easy to find and also pays too little."

"My major challenge is food. I fail to work because I don't have food. I planted soya beans but because of the weather it didn't do well. I wanted to use that money to establish myself a home. My family has this land that was just idle so i planned on developing it. But with no money from the soya, i left to live in the shack. I often with no food and that limits my working since hard labour requires a full stomach. At the moment, I go out to find casual work to have money for food."

"My biggest challenge is money. Because of no money, i fail to feed and clothe my family. My husband does a bicycle taxi business but it's tricky here in the village because people just walk and not pay for transport. He comes home with maybe a dollar or 50 cents and that's what we use to buy food with. It's not enough for out family hence living in poverty."

"My most recent transfer would be spend to send children to school and to build a place for me and my family."