"Initially, hunger was not a stranger in our family, going without food was almost a norm. We used to go up to at least two days a week without getting some food. Since I am very old, I depended on my co-wife who is a casual laborer for survival. As of now, I am very happy that as a family we are getting our daily meals since the time I received the transfers. In addition to that, I sleep well and comfortably. All these could be impossible if it were not for GiveDirectly."

"I would love nothing more than for my children to complete their education, graduate, and potentially have better lives than me and their father. It would fill me with pride to know that the children I raised have aspired and achieved more than their father and I ever did."

"Nothing would make me happier than to work as a full-time teacher. The satisfaction I get from molding young minds is unparalleled, and I hope to train and become one soon. I'd also like to broaden our revenue sources. I want to open a hardware store in Ganze Town with my husband and work hard to provide a better life for my children than I and their father have."

"I currently face a problem of getting food for my people where I go the forest to fetch firewood and sell in order get what to eat. When I don't collect firewood from the forest, the chances of accessing food becomes very minimal and all this comes as a result of landslides that occured just mitres from our home and destroyed almost all the gardens we had hence leaving with no reliable sources of food to survive on."

"The first thing that prevent our development and greatest challenge is that we have to work for others daily and the small money we get we use it renting land to cultivate for what to eat; renting a land nowadays is not easy when you fail to pay on time the owner gives the land to others or they even raise the money or sell the land without informing us and in that case we have to struggle searching for a new land to rent leaving that one that was familiar with our plants. We currently don't have any cow of our own to give us fertiliser to use in the land we rent, we have to herd livestock from others to be able to get fertiliser to use. Another challenge we are facing is being sick , me and my husband Damascene have to go to the hospital a lot , I was recently hospitalised because I had a miscarriage a month ago , up to now i haven't been able to recover from that tragedy because this was my first time facing this kind of misfortune It left me devastated in these past days."

"The first challenge we are currently facing is not having enough land to cultivate, we have a small land which can't produce enough thus we have to work for others in order to survive and we have to rent a land to produce what to eat. Another challenge we have is that me and my husband Fabien had both stomach surgery which make us weak sometimes and we can't be able to work for our family and get money to sustain our family and this sometimes makes it hard for us to get school fees for our children and there are cases where we had to pay for some of them and others had to stay at home. Our house is very small and not adequate for my family size , we don't have beds for our 5 children and they have to sleep on the floor which is uncomfortable and it rains inside our house because the roof is not adaquate , when it rain heavily we can't be able to sleep we have to wake up and move on one side and wait for the rain to stop."

"We are newly married but our own development is not easy because we don't get enough money as we want. The small we get from the small business we have we use it in our house expenses and we can't be able to put our plans into action. I want to study sewing and start doing it but i lack the capacity because i don't have enough money to make that dream come true. We don't have enough livestocks thus we don't get enough fertiliser to use in the small land we have and the little we rent. Currently our house is very new and not well done inside because we don't have a kitchen , we have to cook inside and this is a challenge for us."

"The first challenge we are facing is not having enough land to cultivate, we currently have a small land of our own which can't produce enough for my family size, I have to rent in order to be able to sustain for my family. And to be able to pay the rent I have to work for others as well and the small amount i get i immediately use it and can't have any balance to use in any need occuring. We currently don't have enough fertiliser because we don't have the capacity to pay for inorganic fertiliser, I currently use organic fertiliser which is not enough and to get it i herd livestock for others because what i have is not enough. I have a big family of 8 people and our house is very small for our family size , we have to share the same room with some of our children and the rest have to sleep in the living room floor because we don't have enough space for all of us."

"The main challenge is poverty. We do not have enough land to do farming yet we are farmers and we have two children we take care of. The other challenge is that our children are grown up and need to develop themselves by creating their businesses but we cannot support them financially"

"Food insecurity! Generally, many problems have affected my household but getting my daily bread stands out to be the main challenge. This is because I am a subsistence farmer but due to the prolonged drought, my livelihood has greatly been affected. It's 4 consecutive seasons now with no good harvests, what a life! I am currently depending on my daughter who works as a house help to assist me with food. Since her support has been inconsistent, sometimes, I forfeit meals or survive on one a day, a situation that has primarily affected my health."