"Our culture forbidden sleeping in the same house with your grown up children. These has forced them to seek refuge from neighbors something that do not give me piece of mind. My desire has been to build one for them but due to financial challenges this has not been realized. I am depending on my husband job as a charcoal burner an activity that earns him less at most 1.5 dollars per day. His earnings is spend on feeding my family of 12. "

"Living in a small and leaking grass thatched house has been my greatest challenge in life. My dream has been to have a good one but I have not accomplish this due to financial challenges. Currently, l am depending on my house who sales building pole a job that is unpredictable and earns him less than 1 USD per day. This income normal is spend on food leaving none to cater for other family needs."

"Receiving this money means I will be able to complete the construction of my house. I will buy Windows and a better door that can make my house attractive. I will also buy household items and a cow that will provide milk for my family. This will keep me healthy. "

"Receiving this money means I will be able to build my own house and buy household items. With these, I can settle peacefully with my child."

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is lack of money to take care of the needs of my home. My husband died and left me struggling alone as a widow. At the time of his death, my children were still young but I saw a future in them. I am working so hard to make sure that they are in school, they feed and have the necessary basic needs like any other children. However, this is so challanging . I do small scale farming and whatever little that I get is what I sell off to raise money so as to be able to provide for them. At the same time, the piece of land that I have is limited but I have no option. I don't have any other source from which to get money. I just have to work with what is available."

"The biggest hardship I face is lack of money. Iam sleeping in a dusty house and under low livingstandards since I do not have money to complete my wishes. I can not afford to provide other basic needs in my family like food and better shelter."

"The biggest hardship I face is lack of money for educating my spouse. I do not have any source of earning that would provide money for educating my spouse currently studying in kaliro Teachers college. My spouse studies are so much interfered due to delay reporting to school since I hardly get money on time."

"Receiving this money means that I will be able to renovate my iron-roifed house. The roof leaks and my property is not safe. Once I renovate this house , my property and the whole family will be safe from rain."

"Receiving the money means I will be able to build a permanent house that I will stay in. That will improve on my living conditions and boost my self esteem. The grass thatched house that I love on now is leaking and I have to stand for the entire period as it rains. That has given a lotbof inconvenience. "

"My life was very difficult in the past in that I had no access to financial assistance to enable us construct a permanent house. More so, when the children became ill. I had to borrow from the village savings groups so as to acquire medical care. However,I am very grateful that the cash transfers have enabled us acquire better medical care for the family. We have also boosted our fish business which earns daily income."