"I struggle to find money to buy food. The little money I get from my business does not Carter for all my needs"

"I was born a partially deaf person as I struggle to hear properly. Despite that, God has been good to me for keeping me alive and giving birth to children who are now all adults. Currently, I only depend on assistance from my children as last season, I didn't manage to farm because my health is deteriorating. This money will be used to finish the house and make it beautiful as it was supposed to be. The other part will go towards buying clothes for myself as I rarely receive clothes only food. My grandchildren too will have to be eating well and take a break from always begging for food. I am very happy to be enrolled into this program as I know this will be something I will never forget."

"The biggest hardship has been lack of opportunities to find money and invest in a business or anything to be sustainable. I still consider myself lucky to be working for someone with the bicycle as others are worse off since pieceworks at the lake are scarce. Hence, this makes life a bit harder as where there is money, there is usually peace and happy faces. This is something my family is lacking."

"Milk is in high demand in this area, so when I receive this money I will use KES 30000 to buy a lactating cow to help me earn income through the sale of milk. I will set aside KES 30000 to build a two-roomed decent house now that we live in one single house made of grass with my children. This is making me embarrassed now that there is no privacy. I will budget KES 20000 food and clothing and the remaining KES 20000 I will give my wife to start her business of poultry farming."

"My house is old and I never got enough money to renovate since we rely on farming which in turn earns us little money. When I will receive this money I will use KES 30000 to renovate and buy furniture for my house. I will also buy a cow KES 20000 to enable me to earn income through milk. My daughter completed her secondary school education in the year 2017 and she never managed to further her education because we lacked finance. So I will set KES 50000 for her to enroll in a nursing course."

"I am a trained teacher but I have never secured a job. Since I used my husband's resources to go to college, I look forward to a time when I can support him in educating our children. To do this I must find a source of income. I started a shop small business that give me about KES 300 per day. Receiving this money means I can expand my shop business. I will stock more items at about KES 50,000. This will bring my daily income to about KEs 800 per day. I will use part of this income on household needs and partly to support, my husband, to pay school fees."

"Food insecurity is the biggest hardship that I face. My old age has prevented me from working on the farm to grow crops. In order to solve this, I will buy a dairy cow. Selling milk from it to buy foodstuffs. My aim is to be producing milk that will give me about KES 160 per day. It will be sufficient given that I only have my husband and some grandchildren who do not fully rely on me."

"The biggest hardship that I have faced is losing my husband. My husband died a few months ago and an still mourning him."

"The biggest hardship that I face is financial constraints. This is because I spent about KES 200,000 on education for all the children in various schools. Even with my salary as a teacher, I cannot raise all this. Given that my husband is also jobless. I plan to establish a productive dairy and poultry keeping to supplement income from my job."

"the biggest hardship I have faced in my life is not being able to do anything because of my old age. All I do is depend on my husband."