"I was filled with happiness the moment I received my money."

"The transfers really helped me boost my business and even venture into new ones that I had only thought of but could not afford to start. I also own items that I could not have bought were it not for GD."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is happiness since I no longer buy milk daily like before since i now own a cow."

"The biggest hardship I am facing in life is extreme poverty. I have lived a life of an orphan since the demise of my parents without any external support. This made me drop out of school due to lack of school fees and started offering cheap casual labor with meager earnings."

"The biggest hardship I've faced in life is lack of sustainable source of income to cater for my children. My husband is a tout in Mombasa and the income he gets is always inadequate. The tough economical situations have caused us a lot of despair; we sometimes lack basic needs."

"The biggest difference in my daily life is that I live in a spacious house. I am glad that we sleep we fit well in the house unlike before where we could sqezee the tables and chairs for my children to sleep."

"Receiving this money means a big change is going to take place in my life, this cash transfer is going to see me buy iron sheets and timber and build a new house. I will use the money to buy household items including bedding so that I may be able to bring back my wife who left me because my living condition got worse."

"The biggest hardship I have faced is that I do not have a large farm, and we have to work in peoples farms to meet our family needs. Sometimes we work in the farms and instead of getting payments we get promised for pay for the following day and in such occasions we end up going without food or borrow food from neighbors."

"Receiving this money means I will be able to buy iron sheets and timber to build a spacious house for my family. I will also use the transfer to pay school fees for my children who are in secondary school. "

"Receiving this money means I will be able to pay school fees for my daughter who is supposed to join secondary school next year. I will also buy two cows and five goats for rearing."