"We are struggling to have food in the house. Farming is no longer beneficial because of the rains, they start late and stop early. We have no harvests. My husband started work in Mulanje to try and provide but with the rising costs, it is still not enough. We are still in lack."

"My biggest challenge is a stable source of money. I don't work, my husband finds casual work from a company near here and sometimes to find work you have to pay something which we don't have. In the end he doesn't make any money and therefore no food at home."

"My challenge is my house. It has cracks and now it's rainy season, we move everything to the side that has no cracks because the rains enter through the cracks. We have been failing to fix the cracks because of lack of money. It may cause the house to fall if not fixed."

"receiving the money. I used to have alot of problems , bought"

"Our biggest fear and challenge is water that comes from up hill and hits our house directly. It even destroyed our wall. This happened last year in July. We also face a challenge of not having enough food to eat especially now that we have a very large family including grand children and yet others are yet to come from school. Since we do not have enough money, educating all our children is really hard as we always try to send them to schools but lack enough funds."

"I spent most of my money on buying house building materials"

"I had always want to keep livestock. This is because they reproduce and you can sell them incase of an emergency. I used kshs 16,000 to buy a cow and kshs 15,000 to buy 3 goats. I'm sure they'll reproduce and I'll benefit from consuming and selling their milk. I bought 1 bale of maize flour, sugar, beans, cooking oil and vegetables (these were in frequent small portions, I can't tell their exact quantity) worth kshs 13,000. I used kshs 5,000 to pay school fees for my 3 primary school children. My house was at the verge of collapsing, so I bought 3 bags of cement @ kshs 750 and sand worth kshs 1,500. I paid kshs 2,000 for labour and I'm glad that my house was repaired."

"I spent kshs 46,000 of my second transfer to buy a motorbike. This is because I wanted to do 'boda boda' business. I'm already doing it and I'm glad that I make between kshs 700 and kshs 1,000 daily. I chose this because I needed something that would last for a long time. I used kshs 6,000 to buy one goat that I intend to start milking soon. I also bought clothes worth kshs 2,000 for my 2 children."

"Since I have rented an acre of land, I am hoping to have planted twice and use the profits to open a grocery shop so that we can rely on it for our basic needs. My daughter will be done with highschool as well, so I will not have any school fees to take care of."

"GiveDirectly has done so much good for me and my family. Without GiveDirectly, I could not have afford building a new house for my family. I am very grateful to this organisation for the cash received. From the money received, I was able to built a new house and paid part of my children tuitions. However, it is my hope and prayer that this good work continues. Because most of us (recipients) have a lot of good things in mind to accomplish. But to do that on our own is the biggest challenge."