"felt happy when I was told by child who have was in the forest burning. i had many problems had to stay for three days before calling my son from town to go collect my phone. since the nearby Mpesa points were all crowded and was foreseeing a risk of being ropped."

"My mother has been living in Nairobi for as long as I can remember. She has been depending on casual domestic jobs for all those years, but she recently developed a heart condition that does not allow her to work anymore. This has really placed a huge burden on my shoulder as I have to take care of all her needs including her rent and personal needs. To ease this burden, I decided to use the whole amount I received to purchase building materials which I will use to construct her a semi-permanent house back at home so that she can permanently relocate there."

"My business has really grown over the last one month, all thanks to the money that I received from GD which helped, me to bring more products. I have been making much more profits compared to what I made before which has enabled me smoothly take care of my needs and make some good savings on my mobile savings platform. This will help me in times of need when I might require a quick loan."

"In the next six months, I expect to be living in a spacious house and my family will have an income to support us from the kiosk which by then I am hopeful it will have picked up well. The health of my children will have as well improved given that they will have a balance diet food something that we could not afford before and my children were malnourished. I anticipate living a better life than before come the next six months thanks to GD's support."

"I did not believe that this whole project was real because several other organizations have disappointed me in the past. So the moment I received the money I was actually very surprised. I called our chairperson to confirm if he had received the money as well just to be sure I was not imagining things. After the confirmation, I immediately started planning on how to spend the cash without any delays because I knew exactly what I wanted to do."

"In the next six months, I will have food security given that my poultry farm is doing well. My family will also dress well and school fees will not be a problem as it was before I started receiving the transfers."

"When I received the money, I had not paid my rent for the last three months and was on the verge of being kicked out of my rental house. The first thing I did was to clear the rent then sent part of the money to my children's school to pay part of their school fees balance. I could not pay the whole amount as I had other pressing needs at the time. I sell clothes for a living and lately, business has not been so good, so I decided to purchase more stock which I sent to my sister in Kisumu to sell for me. I saved the rest of the money in our table-banking group to avoid unnecessary expenditure."

"My biggest worry is that I dont have a dairy cow. Everyday, I have to buy milk form a nearby village that is 2 kilometers away so that my daughter can take milk after her meals in the evening. On several occassions, I don't get the milk and my daughter has to sleep without taking milk. This really makes me sad."

"My ambition has been to become a large scale farmer. I plan to spend my transfer on hiring land, buying farm inputs and paying labour for cultivation."

"The job that I currently depend on is livestock business. It has been faced with challenges due to insufficient capital and receiving this money means that I will have more capital to invest in it.This will therefore earn me more income that can sustain my family.I will also use part of my transfers to construct a spacious house that can accommodate my family."