"Lack of food is the only challenge I am facing in my household currently. In May we harvested 5 bags of maize from our field and these tool us through the following months until August when we finished them. Since then we have had to rely on casual labour to get food. It has been harder finding these piece works as people don't have money to pay you these days. For instance, we get 5$ for a 10$ job back in the days. Somedays we sleep on empty stomachs while somedays we eat mangoes for supper, that's our substitute for nsima."

"Currently as a household we only have one challenge and that is lack of food. We have run out of stock of the maize we had for food. This year we had 8 bags of maize from our harvest and they had sustained us until last week. Now, I am always thinking of ways to make money and buy food for my family. I have 7 children and it's expensive to feed them all and ourselves."

"Lack of food, clothing and poor living conditions are the challenges I am currently facing in my household. My charcoal selling business and my husband's cycling business don't sustain us on these days. We only make 4$ from our businesses, combined. We are unable to buy our children new clothes as well as improve our living conditions such as buy beds and chairs for comfortable rest in this house."

"My husband is serving a jail term of 12 years after being found guilty of assaulting a lady friend 2years ago. Aside from this story tainting the image of my family, it has also increased the burden of taking care of our children. Raising school fees for my two children has been an overwhelming task for the last two years. I cannot raise school fees amounting to $200 every year because I am a farmer depending on 1 cow. The milk that I get every day is 4 liters which I sell for $ 0.4. This translates to $1.6 per day and even if I was to save the whole amount it would not be sufficient to cover the required school fees."

"During the time I received the second payment, my child was ill, and a larger percentage of the funds went on his medication. I bought a bag of maize for my family's use with the remaining $60. I appreciate the help since it allowed me to do everything I could to help my son get healthier. It is terrible that he was unable to get better, he later passed away while receiving treatment."

"Four of my kids are in secondary and primary education right now. They are my responsibility, and I must admit that taking care of the majority of their requirements has been difficult because I don't make much money from my side job selling fries to students at a local school. I invested $230 in a dairy cow to raise in order to boost our household income. After it has given birth, I hope to profit from milk sales, and in addition, I hope that my kids will have access to enough milk to improve their nutrition. In the future, I might also sell some of its young ones to fulfill our household demands. I used the first disbursement to pay for a deposit on a piece of property I had purchased but still owed the owner $100, which I fully settled with the most recent stipend. I'm delighted I now possess the plot of property on which I have already begun building rental homes. Our kids also had outstanding school fees balance of $135 which I paid with a portion of the allowance. The final $500 I had was used to buy food for my family."

""My life has change because I have hope of taking care of my family. I am now able to afford for my family. We are not indepted to anyone. My wife can proudly walk in the town without worrying about food and her club due. I'm a happy man because my wife is also happy."

""Things are fine with me now, because I was really suffering. But with GD intervention, I can now boast of things I never had. I can now picture myself living in a house of my own. Whenever I imagine being in my own house, I feel so good."

"" I was right in front of my house one morning when I got the message. I was very happy because I was thinking on how to complete my house. I started building my house since 2020 but I could not complete it. I used to get money from the gold mine but now there's no way to get minerals from the mine right now. But with GD intervention, I'm now sure of completing my house"."

"" There's a great change in my life. My kids are in school now and I'm about to own a house of my dream. My kids went to school with out uniform and now they have uniform and their fees were also paid. I am really happy that GD came to actually change our lives."