"My parents were not able to afford to take my siblings and I to school. This really affected my life because with lack of education I am not able to get decent jobs to feed my family. The only skill I learnt from them is charcoal burning but as things stand, it is an illegal business so I live in fear of being arrested while I try to fend for my family. "

"I depend on subsistence farming which is not enough to sustain my family needs. This has made it difficult to educate my children which saw my two sons missing secondary school education. Therefore, I will use part of this transfer to enroll my daughter who completed secondary education two years ago in college. I will also start hotel business at Tindini center in order to sustain her education, and also generate more income to cater for food and medical needs. From this business, I will save and purchase oxen that I will use to plough my land and also for commercial purposes. This will help curb food shortage and increase my family income."

"My top concern is gang/crime because within mathare many have died due to crime and I wouldn't want to waste my life. Most youths are always idle and that is why they engage themselves into criminal activity. Secondly, am concerned about achieving my ambitions in life. I don't want to fail as the breadwinner in my family, I want to be able to provide to my family their needs and give them the best. If I don't achieve my dream them I won't be able to provide to them. Lastly, am concerned about the life my children will live. I don't want them to have the kind of life I did. I want them to have a good education and bright future and be successful in life. "

"My first priority goes to payment of rent. I live with my mum, my daughter and siblings. We have been struggling financially for quite sometime now. We have a huge rent debt that I would like to help my mother out with part of this monies. Secondly, I will buy my daughter her therapy shoes. I have a sick daughter who was diagnosed with rickets and has been undergoing therapy.She is required to have some shoes that I haven't been able to get because of financial constraints. This is my major use that I will put this monies into. Lastly, I would love to pay school fees for my younger sister. Right now my mother is jobless and cannot afford to pay school fees for her hence she has just been at home. Boosting her with her school fees gives my sister an opportunity at education and to provide a better life for herself. "

"The biggest hardship that I am faced with is inadequacy of money to take care of the education needs of my children. "

"Lack of stable source of income has been the biggest hardship in my life. As a result, I've been unable to provide adequate necessities such as good health, food, School fees, decent clothing, shelter and medication to my children. My husband used to engage in charcoal business, but since the government banned its operation, he has been jobless. We solemnly depended on him for everything, and our kids have continued to suffer irreparable loss of healthy growth and educational development, thankful to GD for coming to our aid."

"My ambition is to invest in sugarcane farming. I have some land that lies fallow because I lack money to put it in proper agricultural use. I would like to spend the transfer on hiring labor for ploughing, weeding, fertilizer and herbicides. From this I hope to harvest with good returns hence increasing my economic power to meeting the needs of my family like food, education, medication and clothing."

"My husband marrying a second wife is the biggest hardship I have faced.He got married two years and since then relocated to another town far from here,we rarely hear from him neither does he support us as far as meeting our children's basic needs and educational needs is concerned.This makes me very emotional atimes but all i do is focus on meeting my chidren's needs through the sale of one or two litres of milk,this however is not enough to cater for their school fees we usually do get togethers as a community where we help each other raise school fees."

"The biggest hardship we have faced in life is lack of enough money to meet education expenses.We have also had difficulties in meeting some of basic needs such as food and clothing.This has been greatly been contributed by the unemployment state that has become part of us for as long as we have lived. Lacking cash to meet some of our basic needs and pay school fees for our children remains the biggest hardship in our household."

"My husband passed on in 2007 and at that time my children were still young.Since his demise,I have had to struggle on my own to provide all the basic needs and other costs that my family needs.I have children in secondary school and University.Raising their fees is ahuge struggle for me because I have no source of income except casual jobs e.g harvesting,weeding.I must struggle though because I would want to see my children get the right education so that they can be independent and support me as well in old age.This has been the biggest hardship I have faced"