"This money will mean a lot to me and my family. We have always been struggling with basic needs for survival as you can see the condition of my house. We have poor beddings and an ever leaking house in times of rain. This money will help us fix all those and the remaining money will go towards buying household items such as pots,buckets and clothes for my wife and children."

"I am failing to educate my children and am very worried that they shall be uneducated like me. This is so as I struggle with the basic needs of any school going child."

"I am very happy to be one of the recipient in this program more especially to have the power to decide on what to use with the money it has been my wish to build a proper house for my self since i dont have one this one my mother borrowed me i will also buy blankets and matress to have a good place to sleep and i will also buy fertiliser for my farming since is always tough for me to find one"

"This money will help us build a better house as well as secure some food as we currently do not have enough food"

"My husband left me some years ago and since then I have been struggling to provide for my 2 kids"

"Lack of food as we are just labourers working at the farm and in most cases we depend on casual labour for our survival"

"I separated from my husband 19 years ago and life has never been easy for me. I have been doing casual jobs of different kinds just to get money to sustain the very basic needs of my family mostly the food. This means the other basic needs like good housing and better education for my children have not been my priority and this has resulted in early marriage to my daughter who dropped from standard 7. Therefore, the financial instability due to lack of a reliable source of income is the biggest hardship that I have ever faced in my life."

"The biggest challenge has been food. We usually harvest little because we lack farm inputs."

"I lacked money to expand my carpentry business in that I did not have enough money to buy tools to help me with my work and with this money now I will be able to buy more materials for my carpentry shop"

"Receiving this money is a great fortune for us,we are excited about this since we have been struggling,as you can see we don't have a proper shelter so this is a great opportunity to solve the problems we currently have."