"My life has changed completely because of the assistance given from give directly. I now have a stable business and also a new house."

"When I got the first transfer, I invested all of it in starting a dairy farming project. I was so impressed by its performances in terms of income generation, thus this encouraged me to spend the second one on adding another cow worth KES 30000. I used the remaining amount to clear a debt I had and repairing a motorbike that my husband (a teacher) usually uses as means of transport to his workplace."

"The biggest hardship i have faced is when my mother died and then a few months my husband left me. I felt so lonely"

"The death of my mother last year is the biggest hardship i have faced in my life because it made me fill so lonely and i had no one to share my stories with anymore"

"I am a young ambitious mother of two who primarily depends on subsistence farming to see my family through. Since we got married, we have had a dream of improving our farming to enables us to acquire more assets and get better yields to sustain my family throughout the year. To me, receiving this money means a better investment in farming since I am planning to spend KES75000 on farming. First, I will buy a dairy cow worth KES50000 because am assured this will bring to an end expensive spending on milk and instead earn extra income from surplus milk that I will be selling. In addition, I will use KES18000 to buy both goats and chickens to rear in my compound. These together with the calves from the cow will be my financial securities thus I will live a secure life unlike currently. I wish to spend KES7000 to boost my crop farming too since this will supplement my livestock produce. I am planning to spend KES25000 to build an iron-roofed house hence I will have two for my family. I will spend the remaining amount, I will spend on my family basic needs mainly daily food and clothing."

"I live in a single room old grass-thatched house that is becoming uncomfortable to live in since it needs the roof to be replaced yearly which is becoming expensive for me and tiring each time I have to do it. To be receiving this money means I will be able to construct two houses a living house and a kitchen. I am planning to spend KES50000 to build these houses thus I will leave a new life in a more comfortable house and I will be able to harvest clean rainwater a dream I have had for a long. I wish to use KES20000 to buy a heifer to add to my heard. I will be able to have more milk for my household consumption and sales for extra income besides the offspring that I will rely on any financial crisis arising in my family. I planning to spent KES35000 on my family basic needs mainly my eye medication, food and clothing."

"The biggest hardship i have faced in my life is being unable to provide enough basic needs for me and my family even when its just the two of us but still it is very hard"

"The biggest hardship we have faced in our family lack of stable source of income. We having been depending mainly on subsistence farming but we started experiencing prolonged drought life became difficult. Sometimes we could harvest none from our farm, it force us to starting doing casual jobs at least raise some money to buy food. It was not enough to sustain my family of six for food and school fees thus sometimes we could forgo some meals in a day."

"Payment of school fees has been a great challenge ,I retired early to do farming but as you can see crops do not do so well due to diseases and weather. Since then I have sold most of our livestock and also fundraised a lot from the community to pay my kid's school fees."

"I have always wanted to cement the floor of my houses and also buy a big storage tank. I am now getting old and I can't bend a lot to sweep and clean the floor more often. Therefore with these grants, I shall be able to renovate the floors of my house for sh 20000 and buy a 2300 litre storage tank worth sh 17000.At the moment I and my husband are getting old and we are unable to run around with our livestock therefore we need to buy 6 rolls of barbed wire to fence the compound . This will ensure the safety of the crops and livestock as well."