"This is a huge relief as the money will enable me to buy food and start a small business for my survival"

"The money will assist us in building a house and other necessities for the house."

"Mostly its been hunger. It becomes difficult for me to find enough food for my family"

"Its not easy for me to find food"

"I will use the money to build a house as I live in a dilapidated house"

"Inadequate finances to seek proper medication for my stomach problem has been my biggest hardship I am facing in life. This has taken away the joy of my life because I was forced to forgo my studies in order to get treatment."

"Financial freedom is what receiving this money mean to me. I have been aspiring to increase my source of income since the one that I am engaged in cannot fully sustain my family (both for School fees and domestic use). I am currently engaged in grocery business in the nearby centre with an average profit of Ksh 500 a day. My intention therefore, is to buy a dairy cow of approximately Ksh 35,000 and my projection is to milk 7 litres a day. Out of this, I will sell 5 litres at Ksh 30 per litre and supplement from what I get from my business. The remaining 2 litres we will use for home consumption."

"We work as charcoal vendors with my husband, My husband is having a small bicycle which he carries the charcoal sacks and move to our nearby town to sell the charcoal. We get an income of 8,000 shillings per month which is not enough to build a spacious house for the family as well as clearing the school fees dept. However, financial problems become the biggest hardship I have faced in my life."

"Financial problem is the biggest hardship in my life, I am working as a charcoal vendor, my wife is a subsistence farmer. We usually get an income of 12,000 shillings per month. This income is not enough to pay for my son's school fees as well as expanding my house. I always use the income to buy food for my nine children and in any financial emergency like in paying hospital bills."

"Financial constraints are the biggest hardship in my life. This has forced me to go to our nearby town every day to sell sisal ropes. I usually get an income of 1000 shilling per month which is not enough to expand my house as well as buying beddings for my 6 children."