"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that I will have leased a farm and planted maize and beans. I will use the money I will get from our merry go round group to achieve this. This will lead to increased farm production hence my family will have enough food to last till the next harvesting season."

"I have bough most of the required materials to construct an iron roofed house. When this house is complete, I am going to be relieved from the burden of renovating my hut annually. Previously, I didn't have enough money to buy materials since the money I got from agricultural produce I used for paying my school fees."

"Being a single mother,it is always a struggle raise school fees for my children.I have two children in Secondary school and one in the University.I have had to sell all the livestock I had to pay for their education and currently I do not have any to provide milk both for consumption and sale.Receiving this money means that I will be able to buy two dairy cows that will provide a source of income for my family"

"I have a medical condition whereby my waist through to my back bone hurt alot.When this happens I can barely perform any duties and requires an urgent visit to a specialist.Most of these times, quite a good amount of money is required for treatment.Since I do not have a means of income,I have not been able to pay for a medical insurance cover hence I always have to raise the money required which is very difficult to come by.This is the biggest hardship I have faced"

"I expect my life to change in the next six months since I will have started the tree plantation project. This is a future investment for my family. I like this idea because the kind of species I grew to take time to grow but grows back again even after they have been cut. This will be my small contribution to the conservation of the environment and also earn a living by selling them. This will help me live peacefully knowing my grand children's' future is covered."

"I am a farmer who earns a living through agriculture but I have been having a challenge with agricultural equipments like the ox-plough. I have been hiring these servivices and attimes using hand hoes which is abit slow. So, when I receive this money, I am going to buy 2 heathy and high quality bulls and an ox-plough to help in agriculture. This is going to save me from spending on hiring and the use of hand hence raising my agricultural outputs and yields."

"When I receive this money, I will build an ironsheets house for myself and grandchildren because currently the one we are living in is so small to comfortably accommodate us. I will also use part of the money for agriculture. In this I will rent agricultural land because I have limited land for agriculture, I will also buy inputs like seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and labour. I thought about commercialized agriculture sometime back but I just didn't have the financial capacity. So with the GD transfers, it is an opportunity to change life."

"The biggest hardship I'm facing currently is sickness. Two of my children are sickly and they have missed school for sometime. I don't have money to take them for treatment. "

"Receiving this money means that I will use it for treatment since I'm suffering from sugar diabetis. Part of the money will be used to recover the piece of land that I staked to someone. Since Iam old, this money will buy for me a cow which can produce milk for home consumption."

"The moment I received my money, I became very happy and thanked God because this money came at a time when I didn't have anything to eat with my 8 children."