"I have gone through a difficult period trying to cope with the death of my father. "

"I don't have a job since I graduated hence finding it so hard to fend for my family. "

"I don't have a stable job and educating my children and taking care of my family is very hard. "

"When my father died. "

"There is a day I starved because I didn't have anything to eat."

"The biggest hardship we face in life is that we lack a reliable source of income as we only depend on small scale farming and fishing and we have many children who we need to educate. "

"The biggest hardship I face in life is that I lack a good source of income and so I lack money to feed my family."

"GiveDirectly gives grants while other NGOs give material things."

"The biggest hardship is that am not able to build a better house. I am also not able to pay school fees for my children."

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of cows to help me when I am ploughing my farm. Most of my cattle died last year and because I am now tilling my farm using manual labour, which is not efficient, a large part of my farm will lie fallow."