"Receiving this money makes me very happy because its going make me construct my on house and expand my business thus changing my life forever."

"Receiving this money makes me happy because am now going to construct a new house, buy house assets and pay school fees for my children."

"The biggest challenge I have experienced is lack of school fee. This has made my children to stay home for long periods in a term."

"The biggest hardship that I have faced is having to skip some meals in a day. This is due to my inability to comfortably provide for the big number of dependants that I have as well as due to the prolonged drought that has hit the area."

"Receiving this money is a joy to this family because we will be able to move to our own homestead and have a bigger house. Having my own homestead gives me freedom and comfort that we are missing in my mother in laws homestead where I currently stay."

"Receiving this money means the expansion of my small scale business as a vegetable vendor to a large scale one, and using the remainder of the transfer to top up my sons university fees for this year."

"The biggest hardship is getting a stable and reliable source of income to sustain my family's needs, since the casual labour like tilling peoples farms that I normally do has not been available with the current drought situation being experienced in the area."

"Receiving this money means a great change in our lives,we plan to purchase a parcel of land to build our own home since we are still in my husbands paternal home."

"The biggest hardship in my life is how to get food for my family and pay school fees for my children."

"The biggest hardship is being able to get a sustainable source of income to sustain our family needs being that both our business incomes are unreliable and seasonal."