I have always earned a living through the selling of farm produce. Food for my family has always been coming from the farm. Since the drought began, everything has become hard for us as a family. I am currently jobless and my husband depends mostly on casual jobs to make ends meet. When I received my first transfer of KSH 3000, I spent KSH 1000 to pay school fees for my school children who had been sent home due to arrears. I saved the remaining KSH 2000. I again received a second transfer of KSH 3000. I spent half of the amount KSH 1500 in buying food that we did not have at that time and saved the remaining amount of KSH 1500. I received my third transfer in December. I spent KSH 2000 from the transfer to buy maize flour, wheat flour, rice, and cooking oil. We cooked some food and together with my family, we ate during the Christmas and New Year celebrations. I also saved the remaining KSH 1000. I am planning to use the money I have been saving to improve the condition of my house. I want to plaster and also rebuild the walls of my house. The walls are made of mud and I want to rebuild them using cement bricks.

This program is most definitely doing a great job and honestly speaking if it were not for the starvation by now I would have already began with constructing the house but since I could not manage to farm I opted to manage to get meals since I have my children who depend on me and seeing them going to bed hungry would make feel like a failure.

Unlike some years backs the drought that has affected the village this time round has taken quite a toll on us especially since most of us including myself are subsistence farmers and rely of the harvest to feed our families. But due to the hunger when I received the money I went ahead and considered nutrition first and that is why I bought a bag of maize flour that contained twelve packets inisde at KES 1300, five kilograms of beans for KES 500, cooking oil worth KES 200 and lastly a box of laundry detergent at KES 100. I was then left with KES 900 which I put in my savings so that it could be of assistance in case of emergencies or in case I had other plans in the future.

I was genuinely overjoyed because now I feel like someone of substance because before I could barely provide for my family and now I can mostly definitely do so for my family by paying for tuition when I am needed to and we also do not have to worry about what our next meal and when it is going to be . In other words I am very much pleased and contented.

The biggest difference for me are the funds themselves, because prior to getting registered to this program I suffered economically and at times it was even hard placing a meal on the table, but through this project I feel more empowered and more sustainable for both my family and I and it is bringing pure bliss.

When I received the transfers I chose to settle some of child's pending balance on their school fees so I paid KES 500 to the school and I was left with a balance of KES 480 that I plan to finish soon so as to avoid any inconvenience with the school administration. Apart from that I also managed to purchase five bags of maize flour which cost me KES 500 so as to care for the nourishment of my family and lastly I managed to save KES 2000 that me and my family would use on any rainy or in case need arises.